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- The Effect of Different Leaf/bunch Ratios on Yield and Fruit Physical Characteristics of Khlass Date Palm Cultivar
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Authors
H. Al-Salman
1,
N. Al-Wusaibai
1,
M. Al-Husseini
1,
H. I. Al-Hajji
1,
I. A. Alabdulhadi
1,
A. Ben Abdallah
2
Affiliations
1 National Date Palm Research Center of AlHassa, SA
2 FAO Project UTFN/SAU/015/SAU
1 National Date Palm Research Center of AlHassa, SA
2 FAO Project UTFN/SAU/015/SAU
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Indian Journal of Science and Technology, Vol 5, No 3 (2012), Pagination: 2287-2288Abstract
The effect of leaf/bunch ratios (6, 8, 10 and 12 leaves/bunch) on yield and fruit quality of Khlass date palm cultivar was studied for 3 successive years in National Date Palm Research Centre of AlHassa, Saudi Arabia. Yield and total production of dates gradually increased significantly with increasing leaf/bunch ratio. However, leaf/bunch ratio had no effect on length, breadth and weight of Khlass fruits and the differences between treatments were not significant.Keywords
Date Palm, Phoenix dactylifera L. Leaf/bunch Ratio, Yield, Fruit Quality, KhlassFull Text
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- A Comparative Study between Mechanical and Manual Pollination in Two Premier Saudi Arabian Date Palm Cultivars
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Affiliations
1 National Date Palm Research Centre – Al-Hassa, SA
2 FAO-Project (UTFN/SAU/015/SAU
3 FAO-Project (UTFN/SAU/015/SAU)
1 National Date Palm Research Centre – Al-Hassa, SA
2 FAO-Project (UTFN/SAU/015/SAU
3 FAO-Project (UTFN/SAU/015/SAU)
Source
Indian Journal of Science and Technology, Vol 5, No 4 (2012), Pagination: 2487-2490Abstract
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia produces nearly a million tones of dates annually from an estimated 25 million palms. Date palm (Phoenix dactylifera L.) is a dioecious crop where male and female inflorescences are on separate palms. To ensure good fertilization and overcome disadvantages of dichogamy, enhance fruit set and sustain yield levels, each female inflorescence has to be artificially pollinated either manually which is time consuming and labour intensive or mechanically using pollinating devices. We therefore carried out a comparative study to assess the yield and yield attributes between manual and mechanical pollination in two premier date palm cultivars of Saudi Arabia viz. Khalas and Sheshi. Results indicate that manually pollinated palms gave the best fruit set in both the cultivars. However, with regard to yield results were cultivar specific. In Khalas, yield levels were statistically at par for both manual and mechanical pollination ranging from 10.99 to 11.54 Kg per bunch, while mechanical pollination was significantly superior to manual pollination in the cultivar Sheshi, where pollen : flour ratio of 1:15 resulted in the best yield of 8.06 Kg per bunch.Keywords
Date Palm, Phoenix dactylifera, Dioecious, Mechanical Pollination, Manual Pollination, Pollen, Female Inflorescences, YieldsFull Text
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