Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Acta Horticulturae, cilt.636, ss.395-400, 2004 (Scopus)
This research was carried out between 1996 and 2001 at the experimental apricot orchard of the Horticulture Department, Agriculture Faculty, Mustafa Kemal University, Hatay, Kirikhan/Turkey. In the experiment, five low chill cultivars of the apricot (Priana, Feriana, Canino, Precoce de Colomer, Precoce de Tyrinthe) were used as materials. In these cultivars, certain phenological and pomological characteristics such as flowering period, average fruit weight, fruit dimensions, flesh/seed ratio, acidity and total soluble solids (TSS) were examined. In addition, the vegetative growth of the cultivars was evaluated by measuring the trunk diameters and lengths of annual shoots. Over six years, the highest average fruit weight was obtained from 'Precoce de Tyrinthe' (31.92 g), whereas the weight of 'Precoce de Colomer's' fruits was the lowest (20.52 g). The flesh/seed ratio was the highest in the 'Precoce de Tyrinthe'. 'Priana' had the highest TSS content with 15.10%, whereas 'Precoce de Tyrinthe' had the lowest TSS value with 10.33%. 'Priana' ripened the earliest (20 May), while 'Precoce de Colomer' was the latest ripening cv. (3-5 June).