KARAKAŞ CIRTLIK, Bahar Tarım ve Hayvancılık Bakanlığı - Amasya İl Gıda, Turkey , BEYHAN, Neriman Ondokuz Mayıs Üniversitesi - Ziraat Fakültei - Bahçe Bitkileri Bölümü, Turkey

AN INVESTIGATION OF THE POSSIBLE USE OF SOME IMPORTANT LOCAL SWEET CHERRY CULTIVARS GROWN IN AMASYA PROVINCE AS POLLINIZERS FOR 0900 ZIRAAT CULTIVAR

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In this study, the ability of serving as pollinizer of local cherry cultivars such as ‘Türkoğlu’, ‘Köroğlu’, ‘Kargayüreği’, ‘Hacı Ali’, ‘Starks Gold’ and ‘Geçkiraz’ cv. for ‘0900 Ziraat’ was investigated. ‘0900 Ziraat’ was used as a female parent and ‘Türkoğlu’, ‘Köroğlu’, ‘Kargayüreği’, ‘Hacı Ali’, ‘Starks Gold’ and ‘Geçkiraz’ were used as pollinizer cultivars. Flowering dates of the cherry cultivars were between 13 – 23 April in 2003, 27 March - 11 April in 2004, and 7-19 April in 2005. It was observed that the cultivars used for ‘0900 Ziraat’ would be suitable pollinizer in terms of fruit set ratios in this study. But, when blooming times were taken into consideration, ‘Geçkiraz’ was found to be the only cultivar, the blooming time of which completely matches ‘0900 Ziraat’. Fruit set ratios for open pollination were determined in all the experimental cultivars. The effects of different pollinizers on the fruit quality characteristics of ‘0900 Ziraat’ were not significant.

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Prunus avium L. , 0900 Ziraat , fruit set , artificial pollination , open pollination , phenology.

Anadolu Journal Of Agricultural Sciences

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