Study and comparison of quatity and quality characteristics of Barhee date fruits produced by tissue culture and offshoot with study of their morphological characteristics
2004
Hajian, Saeed | Zalaki, Saeed
Barhee is one of the most commercial and popular date cultivars in Khuzestan one of the main producing areas of it but, many of plantations were damaged during the Iraq and Iran war. So, in order to renew of these plantations and also the old ones, the government prepared and distributed many tissue cultured plantlets of Barhee date cultivar in this region in past years. On the other hand, many of date growers worried about the incidence of some abnormalities (genetically and epi-genetically changes) in the trees of them and so were not interested in using tissue cultured plantlets. Therefore, this study carried out with 8 Barhee Date trees (4 tissue cultured and 4 offshooted) from 1999 to 2002 at date palm germplasm collection of Date Palm & Tropical Fruits Research Institute of Iran at Ahwaz city on the basis of completely randomized design with 12 replications. The results showed there are significant differences only between 16 of 97 characteristics of two groups, so there is no morphological changes related to genetic abnormalities in the trees of tissue cultured plantlets.
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