Quantitative and qualitative evaluation of imported cultivars (Phase 1)

• Main Authors: Golein, Behrooz, Aghajanzadeh, Sirous, Fifaei, Reza
• Format: Publication
• Language: Persian
• Published: Ramsar (Iran) Iran Citrus Research Institute 2010
• Subjects: CITRUS; CULTIVAR SELECTION; http://www.fao.org/aos/agrovoc#c_1637; http://www.fao.org/aos/agrovoc#c_330719; http://www.fao.org/aos/agrovoc#c_6653; PORTAINJERTOS; PORTE GREFFE; ROOTSTOCKS

Recently a few citrus cultivars including Unshius, Clementines, Navel oranges, Valencia and limes were introduced from French, Crosica. After preliminary evaluation about citrus important diseases, they had none of those diseases. Then, in order to find the best combination of scion and rootstock for each region, and consistency of each cultivar with environmental factors, 12 projects were conducted in different areas of south and north of Iran. For doing the projects, a split plot design based on factorial experiment with three replications and 3 plants in each plot was designed. In each research site, dominant rootstocks were used. At the first stage of research, the seeds of rootstocks were planted in nursery, scions budded and afterwards, plants transferred to orchard. In the second phase, tree height, tree diameter, tree volume, yield, yield efficiency, fruit weight, fruit volume, peel thickness, TA, TSS, fruit juice content will be evaluated.