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Effect of Pollinator Strands Number on Fruit Set, Bunch Weight and Fruit Quality of “Sewy” Date Palm

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Last updated: 01 Jan 2025

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Horticulture (Vegetable, Pomology and Ornamentals)

Abstract

Pollination is important process for date palm in terms of their influence on fruit development, quality and yield, as well as the organization's yearly tree bearing. The development of pollination technology, which results in a reasonable level of fruit set with the use of a small number of pollen grains, is necessary to improve the productivity of date palms, especially in arid conditions. This experiment was done on Sewy date palm for both progressive seasons 2020 and 2021 at Pomology department's farm, Assiut Governorate, Egypt. The influence of strand number on fruit Physico-chemical properties was tested. Seven levels of pollination were applied as 2, 4, 6,8,10 and 12 strands/ inflorescences.
The results illustrated that the initial and final fruit set percentages, bunch weight and final crop/palm increased significantly by increasing pollination levels in both experimental seasons by treatment of 14 strands/inflorescence compared to the check treatment (8 strands/inflorescence), whereas; fruit, seed and pulp weight; TSS, acidity and sugars content decreased significantly by the same treatment (except for acidity in the 1st season and non-reducing sugars in the 2nd season).
Hence, it could be concluded that pollination with 14 male strands should be possible to gain an inclusive yield and quality and increase the efficiency of the pollination process of Sewy date palms.

DOI

10.21608/ajas.2022.144804.1153

Keywords

inflorescences, Pollination density, Phoenix dactylifera

Authors

First Name

Ahmed M.M.

Last Name

Abdelghany

MiddleName

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Affiliation

Pomology Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Assiut University, Egypt.

Email

ahmed.abd_elgany@agr.aun.edu.eg

City

Assiut

Orcid

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First Name

Sabah M.

Last Name

Badawy

MiddleName

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Affiliation

Agricultural Research Center, Shandaweel Island, Sohag, Egypt.

Email

badawyfathy330@gmail.com

City

Sohag

Orcid

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First Name

Essam M.A.

Last Name

Radwan

MiddleName

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Affiliation

Horticulture Department, Faculty of Agriculture, New Valley University, Egypt.

Email

essamabdelzaher669@agr.nvu.edu.eg

City

New Vally

Orcid

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Volume

53

Article Issue

4

Related Issue

37148

Issue Date

2022-10-01

Receive Date

2022-06-14

Publish Date

2022-10-01

Page Start

71

Page End

78

Print ISSN

1110-0486

Online ISSN

2356-9840

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https://ajas.journals.ekb.eg/article_263934.html

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Original Article

Type Code

62

Publication Type

Journal

Publication Title

Assiut Journal of Agricultural Sciences

Publication Link

https://ajas.journals.ekb.eg/

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Effect of Pollinator Strands Number on Fruit Set, Bunch Weight and Fruit Quality of “Sewy” Date Palm

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Article

Created At

22 Jan 2023