Muhammad Javed Tareen
Seed Farm Agriculture Research Institute, Balochistan, Ouetta, Pakistan
Abdul Qadir Tareen
Seed Farm Agriculture Research Institute, Balochistan, Ouetta, Pakistan
Faiz Ullah Khan
Seed Farm Agriculture Research Institute, Balochistan, Ouetta, Pakistan
Abdul Razaq Raisani
Directorate of Horticulture, Agriculture Research Institute, Balochistan, Ouetta, Pakistan
Javed Ahmed Kamal
Seed Farm Agriculture Research Institute, Balochistan, Ouetta, Pakistan
ABSTRACT
Influence of two dwarfing rootstocks viz. MM-106 and M-9 on apple cultivar red delicious was studied. Rootstocks MM-106 significantly increased percentage of fruit set, pre-harvest fruit drop proper stage of maturity and yield as compared to M-9. While M-9 increased only seed colour as compared to MM-106. Where as there was a little difference in fruit shape and size, fruit weight, skin colour of fruit, No. of seeds per fruit, fruit firmness, TSS and consumer`s acceptability between the two rootstocks. Rootstock MM-106 was found partially better than rootstock M-9 on cultivar red delicious.
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Muhammad Javed Tareen, Abdul Qadir Tareen, Faiz Ullah Khan, Abdul Razaq Raisani and Javed Ahmed Kamal, 2002. Influence of Rootstocks on "Red Delicious" Apple Grown in Balochistan. Journal of Biological Sciences, 2: 528-530.
DOI: 10.3923/jbs.2002.528.530
URL: https://scialert.net/abstract/?doi=jbs.2002.528.530
DOI: 10.3923/jbs.2002.528.530
URL: https://scialert.net/abstract/?doi=jbs.2002.528.530