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Pakistan Journal of Biological Sciences

Year: 2004 | Volume: 7 | Issue: 11 | Page No.: 1840-1846
DOI: 10.3923/pjbs.2004.1840.1846
Effect of Inflorescence Types on Fruits Quality of Owari Cultivar of Satsuma mandarin (Citrus unshiu, Marc.)
Nasar Iqbal, Fatih Sen and N. A. Virk

Abstract: Present studies were envisaged to determine the effect of inflorescence pattern on the fruit quality of Satsuma mandarin grafted on Troyer Citrange (TR), Sour Orange (SO) and Trifoliate Orange (TF) in the orchard of the Department of Horticulture, Ege University, Izmir Turkey. Physical fruit quality characteristics such as fruit weight, diameter and height of fruits developed from leafy inflorescence were significantly higher as compared with leafless fruits. Fruit peel color (L, a, b and a/b ratio), specific gravity and electrical conductivity percentage (EC%) was significantly higher in leafless fruits than leafy fruits but peel thickness and peel thickness index were higher for leafy fruits than that of leafless ones. Fruit internal quality parameters such as fruit juice percentage and vitamin C contents were significantly higher in leafless fruits as compared with leafy ones.

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Nasar Iqbal, Fatih Sen and N. A. Virk, 2004. Effect of Inflorescence Types on Fruits Quality of Owari Cultivar of Satsuma mandarin (Citrus unshiu, Marc.). Pakistan Journal of Biological Sciences, 7: 1840-1846.

Keywords: satsuma mandarin, inflorescence leafiness, fruit quality and cittus

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