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Diurnal chilling timing^z	Crown diameter (mm)	No. of runner plants	Dry weight (g/plant)	Leaf area (cm²/plant)
Control	10.8	2.5 a^y	2.1	0.2	0.2 b	0.6	400
Daytime	9.6	2.5 a	2.1	0.2	0.3 b	0.4	374
Nighttime	10.5	1.5 ab	2.4	0.3	0.4 a	0.2	423
Entire day	10.7	0.7 b	2.7	0.2	0.5 a	0.2	420
Significance^x	ns	^*	ns	ns	^***	ns	ns

Diurnal chilling timing^z	Crown diameter (mm)	No. of runner plants	Dry weight (g/plant)	Leaf area (cm²/plant)
Control	10.8	2.5 a^y	2.1	0.2	0.2 b	0.6	400
Daytime	9.6	2.5 a	2.1	0.2	0.3 b	0.4	374
Nighttime	10.5	1.5 ab	2.4	0.3	0.4 a	0.2	423
Entire day	10.7	0.7 b	2.7	0.2	0.5 a	0.2	420
Significance^x	ns	^*	ns	ns	^***	ns	ns

Table 3.

Effect of chilling of the crown on crown diameter, number of runner plants, dry leaf, crown, root, and runner plant weights, and leaf area of strawberry plants after 4 weeks.

Diurnal chilling timing^z	Crown diameter (mm)	No. of runner plants	Dry weight (g/plant)				Leaf area (cm²/plant)
Diurnal chilling timing^z	Crown diameter (mm)	No. of runner plants	Leaf	Crown	Root	Runner plant	Leaf area (cm²/plant)
Control	10.8	2.5 a^y	2.1	0.2	0.2 b	0.6	400
Daytime	9.6	2.5 a	2.1	0.2	0.3 b	0.4	374
Nighttime	10.5	1.5 ab	2.4	0.3	0.4 a	0.2	423
Entire day	10.7	0.7 b	2.7	0.2	0.5 a	0.2	420
Significance^x	ns	^*	ns	ns	^***	ns	ns

Diurnal chilling timing^z	Crown diameter (mm)	No. of runner plants	Dry weight (g/plant)				Leaf area (cm²/plant)
Diurnal chilling timing^z	Crown diameter (mm)	No. of runner plants	Leaf	Crown	Root	Runner plant	Leaf area (cm²/plant)
Control	10.8	2.5 a^y	2.1	0.2	0.2 b	0.6	400
Daytime	9.6	2.5 a	2.1	0.2	0.3 b	0.4	374
Nighttime	10.5	1.5 ab	2.4	0.3	0.4 a	0.2	423
Entire day	10.7	0.7 b	2.7	0.2	0.5 a	0.2	420
Significance^x	ns	^*	ns	ns	^***	ns	ns

^zControl = 28/21^oC. The chilling temperature was 5^oC.

^yMeans within columns followed by different letters are significantly different by Duncan’s multiple range test at P < 0.05.

^xSubscripts indicate:

^*P < 0.05;

^**P < 0.01;

^***P < 0.001; ns, not significant.

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