Effects of indigenous and foreign pollinizers on the yield and fruit characteristics of date palm cultivar khalas
Other Title(s)
تأثير الملقحات المحلية و الخارجية في المحصول و جودة ثمار نخيل التمر صنف خلاص
Joint Authors
Ghazzawi, Hisham Sayyid
al-Hajhuj, Muhammad Rafdan
Salam, Abd al-Qadir Abd al-Qadir
al-Bahijan, Abd al-Majid
Munir, Muhammad
Source
The Iraqi Journal of Agricultural Science
Issue
Vol. 51, Issue 1 (29 Feb. 2020), pp.356-365, 10 p.
Publisher
University of Baghdad College of Agriculture
Publication Date
2020-02-29
Country of Publication
Iraq
No. of Pages
10
Main Subjects
Topics
Abstract EN
This research was carried out at Research and Training Station, Date Palm Research Center of Excellence, King Faisal University, Al-Ahsa, Saudi Arabia during 2017 and 2018 to investigate the effects of indigenous and foreign pollinizers on the yield and physicochemical fruit characteristics of date palm cv.
Khalas.
Pollen grains of different date palm male pollinizers were collected from different geological locations of Saudi Arabia and Egypt.
Fifteen twelve-year-old date palm trees were selected for the experiment, for which five spathes for each palm were selected per replication.
The experiment was laid out as a Randomized Complete Block Design with three replicates for each treatment.
The findings of the present study showed significant differences among pollinizer sources.
Female date palms pollinated with indigenous male pollen grains (Al-Ahsa, Saudi Arabia) exhibited superior results regarding fruit set percentage, parthenocarpic fruit percentage, tamar fruit percentage, fruit drop percentage, total number of fruit nodes per bunch, bunch weight, pulp weight, pulp ratio, seed ratio and pulp:seed ratio, fruit fresh weight, fruit dry weight, fruit length, fruit width, fruit volume, seed weight, seed length, seed width, fruit moisture content and total soluble solids.
It is can be concluded that although the response to pollination and fertilization of date palm is species dependent, however, the indigenous cultivar Khalas was more responsive to the local male types than the foreign males for better fruit set, higher yield and best fruit quality traits.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Munir, Muhammad& al-Hajhuj, Muhammad Rafdan& Salam, Abd al-Qadir Abd al-Qadir& Ghazzawi, Hisham Sayyid& al-Bahijan, Abd al-Majid. 2020. Effects of indigenous and foreign pollinizers on the yield and fruit characteristics of date palm cultivar khalas. The Iraqi Journal of Agricultural Science،Vol. 51, no. 1, pp.356-365.
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Modern Language Association (MLA)
Munir, Muhammad…[et al.]. Effects of indigenous and foreign pollinizers on the yield and fruit characteristics of date palm cultivar khalas. The Iraqi Journal of Agricultural Science Vol. 51, no. 1 (2020), pp.356-365.
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American Medical Association (AMA)
Munir, Muhammad& al-Hajhuj, Muhammad Rafdan& Salam, Abd al-Qadir Abd al-Qadir& Ghazzawi, Hisham Sayyid& al-Bahijan, Abd al-Majid. Effects of indigenous and foreign pollinizers on the yield and fruit characteristics of date palm cultivar khalas. The Iraqi Journal of Agricultural Science. 2020. Vol. 51, no. 1, pp.356-365.
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Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references : p. 363-365
Record ID
BIM-948711