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Diurnal chilling timing^z	Crown diameter (mm)	No. of runner plants	Dry weight (g/plant)	Leaf area (cm²/plant)
Control	9.7	3.3 a^y	2.4	0.3 bc	0.4	1.8 a	481 ab
Daytime	10.2	2.5 ab	1.8	0.2 c	0.4	1.2 b	354 bc
Nighttime	11.1	1.7 b	2.7	0.4 ab	0.7	0.5 c	495 a
Entire day	10.7	0.2 c	3.3	0.5 a	0.5	0.0 c	317 c
Significance^x	ns	^***	ns	^*	ns	^***	^*

Diurnal chilling timing^z	Crown diameter (mm)	No. of runner plants	Dry weight (g/plant)	Leaf area (cm²/plant)
Control	9.7	3.3 a^y	2.4	0.3 bc	0.4	1.8 a	481 ab
Daytime	10.2	2.5 ab	1.8	0.2 c	0.4	1.2 b	354 bc
Nighttime	11.1	1.7 b	2.7	0.4 ab	0.7	0.5 c	495 a
Entire day	10.7	0.2 c	3.3	0.5 a	0.5	0.0 c	317 c
Significance^x	ns	^***	ns	^*	ns	^***	^*

Table 4.

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 6 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	9.7	3.3 a^y	2.4	0.3 bc	0.4	1.8 a	481 ab
Daytime	10.2	2.5 ab	1.8	0.2 c	0.4	1.2 b	354 bc
Nighttime	11.1	1.7 b	2.7	0.4 ab	0.7	0.5 c	495 a
Entire day	10.7	0.2 c	3.3	0.5 a	0.5	0.0 c	317 c
Significance^x	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	9.7	3.3 a^y	2.4	0.3 bc	0.4	1.8 a	481 ab
Daytime	10.2	2.5 ab	1.8	0.2 c	0.4	1.2 b	354 bc
Nighttime	11.1	1.7 b	2.7	0.4 ab	0.7	0.5 c	495 a
Entire day	10.7	0.2 c	3.3	0.5 a	0.5	0.0 c	317 c
Significance^x	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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