flowering and fruit production of ‘nagami’ kumquat is somewhat different from other citrus species because usually have three flowering peak in a year which can lead to producing fruits with different quality on a tree. considering the proper effect of paclobutrazol on raising citrus flowering, a pot experiment with three levels of paclobutrazol (zero, 0.1 and 0.5 g ai per tree) and six replica...

growth in plants is defined as irreversible increase in volume and size. these changes are varied depending on stage of growth and physiological activity of the fruit tree. this research was conducted to determine the duration period of fruit growth and development and to come up with a mathematical model representing the relationship between fruit diameter, volume, and fruit fresh and dry weig...

in order to study the effect of grapeguard on quality, quantity and control of storage diseases of grape in cold storage a completely randomized design with 3 replicate was conducted on two cultivators of kolahdari and kajanguri in khorasan agricultural research center. the fruits after harvesting were transferred to the sheltered place. before keeping in cold storage, the temperature of fruits...

Abstract Umbu fruits from four municipalities of Paraíba were morphologically characterized in order to identify promising genotypes for fresh consumption and agro-industrial use. We used 400 parent plants located São Vicente do Seridó, Queimadas, Boqueirão, Cabaceiras 40 commercial two open fairs Campina Grande, PB. The experimental unit consisted ten fruits. analyzed total mass (MTF), length ...

The aim of our research was to determine the effect short pruning on productive and vegetative characteristics peach trees. conducted two cultivars, ‘Redhaven’ ‘Fayette’. Three treatments were applied, with heading bearing branches at 20, 30, 40 cm in length a control, without heading. following evaluated: growth TCSA, number thinned fruitlets, fruit yield per tree, average weight fruits diamet...

abstract in order to provide optimal yield and quality of tomato fruit (lycopersicon esculentum mill. cv. beril), different growing media for soilless culture of tomato plants were studied. seedling of tomato (lycopersicon esculentum mill, cv. beril ) were cultivated in perlite, mixture of perlite with nh4-zeolite and with raw zeolite (z:p ratio 10v:90v) and fed by two nutrient sources: a) comp...

the current experiment was carried out to evaluate qualitative and quantitativeof three melons (cucumis melo gp. ameri) accssions named zardjalal, ananasi and khanoti. the experiment was conducted in a randomized complete block design (rcbd) with 16 treatments and three replications at research field of jahad-e-daneshgahi, campus of agriculture and natural resources, university of tehran. five ...