SIMILARITIES BETWEEN POMEGRANATE PARENTS AND CROSSES REGARDING SOME FRUIT CHARACTERISTICS

This research was carried out in the Batı Akdeniz Agricultural Research Institute.
After self-pollination and crossing of two sweet and one sour-sweet standard pomegranate varieties; 2,487 types, obtained from 9 combinations, were compared with their parents regarding taste, rind colour, aril colour and seed hardness properties; and similarity percentages of each combination were determined.
The data indicate that, rind and aril colour of the types in all combinations were generally medium. 87.63% of the Fellahyemez × Ernar and 93.58% of the Ernar × Fellahyemez combinations were observed to be sweet.
On the one hand, the higher percentage (37.11%) of the types in Fellahyemez × Ernar combination were soft seeded whereas the higher percentage (44.92%) of the types in the Ernar × Fellahyemez combination were hard seeded. 39.70% and 40.66% of Hicaznar × Ernar and Ernar × Hicaznar combinations were sour, and also 57.33% and 52.53% of Hicaznar × Ernar and Ernar × Hicaznar were hard seeded respectively.
While 38.50% of the types obtained from the Hicaznar × Fellahyemez combination were soft seeded, 44.64% of the types obtained from Fellahyemez × Hicaznar combination were found to be hard seeded.

I International Symposium on Pomegranate and Minor Mediterranean Fruits

E. Ataseven Isık, M. Celik

Pomegranate, parents, crosses, fruit characteristics, types

https://doi.org/10.17660/ActaHortic.2009.818.33