Abstract: In order to clarify the field agronomic traits and quality improvement and yield increase of virus-free garlic, a field comparison experiment was conducted between virus-free Minle purple garlic as test
material and non virus-free conventional garlic as control (CK), and the growth period, agronomic traits, yield and quality of garlic were compared. The results showed that compared with conventional garlic, the phenology period of virus-free garlic was earlier with 3-12 d, the growth period shorted by 9 days, and the strong seedling was easy to form. Nine agronomic quantitative traits including plant height, plant width, pseudostem height, pseudostem diameter, leaf length, leaf width, garlic stem length, garlic stem thickness and single moss quality of garlic stem increased extremely significantly, with the growth rates of 19.28%, 18.44%, 17.77%, 18.97%, 22.42%, 11.52%, 33.80%, 27.45%, 77.90%, respectively. The number of leaves increased significantly, with a growth rate of 8.80%. All following traits were extremely significantly increased, with the yield of garlic stems and bulbs increased by 136.0% and 55.5%, the first order bulb diameter and single bulb weight increased by 91.21% and 90.81%, chlorophyll a, chlorophyll b and chlorophyll a + b increased by 19.05%, 18.84% and 18.99%, and the content of total sugar, soluble protein, vitamin C and allicin in bulbs increased by 59.45%, 19.86%, 23.08% and 49.41%, respectively. Virus-free was beneficial to improve the growth potential of garlic, enhance the correlation between agronomic characters and yield per plant, improve the commodity rate and quality, and increase the yield significantly. |