identifying and selecting superior genotypes in native germplasm is one method for breeding fruit trees. five different ecotypes of jujube (ziziphus jujuba mill.) were collected from different regions of isfahan province, iran, for evaluation of their morphological and pomological traits during 2011-13. results showed that quantitative traits were more significant within ecotypes. ‘‘najafabad’ ...

this study was conducted to investigate some moisture-dependent engineering properties of russian olive fruit including fruit dimensions, one thousand seed mass, surface area, sphericity, bulk and true density, angle of sliding and static friction coefficient against different surfaces. the physical properties of russian olive fruit were evaluated as a function of moisture content in the range ...

nitrogen is one of the most important and essential lelments for plant growth and development and it has an important role on quantitative and qualitative yield production in agriculture. this study was carried out to evaluate the effects of foliar application of nitrogen on qualitative traits of tomato fruits using a completely randomized design with five treatments and four replications under...

experiments were carried out in a commercial orchard during 1994, 1995 and 1996 to determine the influence of chemical thinning on characterisics of fruit and alternate bearing of native olive (olea europea l) cvs. dezfoul and fishomi at early fruitlet stage. in 1994, branch sprays of naphthalene acetic acid (100, 150 and 200 mg/l), naphthalene acetamide (200 and 300 mg/l) and urea (0.6 and 1.2...

We present deep BV RI CCD photometry of the stars in the dwarf irregular galaxy UKS 2323–326 in the Sculptor Group. The color-magnitude diagrams of the measured stars in UKS 2323–326 show a blue plume which consists mostly of young stellar populations, and a well-defined red giant branch (RGB). The tip of the RGB is found to be at ITRGB = 22.65± 0.10 mag. From this the distance to this galaxy i...

physical properties are often required for designing post harvest handling and processing equipment for agricultural products. persimmon (khormandy cultivar) is rich in vitamin a, calcium, potassium, tannic acid and antioxidant phenolic compounds. in this study changes in the physical properties of persimmon fruit during storage were studied. properties such as fruit dimensions, mass, geometric...

to conserve the genetic resources and identify the strong and weak points in sistan watermelon accessions and compare these with improved cultivars of: sugarbaby and fairfax, an experiment was carried out, based on rectangular lattic design of two replications in 2007. the morphological traits studied, included plant length, plant weight, seed weight, fruit number, fruit length, fruit width, su...

to investigate the genotypic and phenotypic relationship between characteristics affecting tomato fruit weights, eleven tomato lines were compared in a rcb design with three replications. the anova showed that the difference among lines was significant for all characteristics. there was a significant phenotypic and genotypic correlations between fruit weight and most of the characteristics. the...