Evaluation of vegetative growth, fruit characterestics and yield of eight canning olive cultivars in sub tropical conditions of Fars provine.

Subject Areas : Journal of Plant Ecophysiology

alireza bonyanpour ¹ (fars agriculture and natural resources research center)

Received: 2015-04-20 Accepted : 2015-10-21 Published : 2016-12-01

Keywords: morphology, Yield, Olive cultivars, Fruit growth,

Abstract :

Olive (Olea europea L.) is a subtropical tree with a good adaptation to varius climatic conditions. In recent years, olive cultivation has increased rapidly in Fars province. However enviromental requairmentes of canning and oil olive cultivars are different. Therefor, it is nesessary to determine suitable canning cultivars for subtropical region of Fars province. This research was conducted in Kazeroon olive research station with eight canning olive cultivars: ‘Abu-Satl’, ‘Lucus’, ‘Mary-Tarom’, ‘Khodiri’, ‘Mary-Gorgan’, ‘Manzanilla’, ‘Conservalia’ and ‘Tufahi’ in a RCBD experiments with 3 replication. During experiment, vegetative characterestics including mean shoot growth, increasing in thick diameter, length of canopy shade and growth of lateral shoots, and fruit characterestics such as fruit weight, length and diameter of fruits, seed weight, pulp to seed ratio and yield were measured. Results showed that in relation to vegetative growth, ‘khadiri’ and ‘Manzanillo’ cultivars were the best and ‘Conservalia’ with 4 grams fruit weight was the best cultivar regard to all fruit characteristic. In relation to fruits yield, ‘Conservalia’, ‘Abu-Satl’ and‘Manzanilla’ with 8 kg fruit per tree were the best. Therefor ‘Conservalia’with suitable canopy size and good fruits weight and shape, and with moderate oil in fresh fruit weight, it is a good cultivar in relation to oil production and canning fruits. Therefor ‘Conservalia’ is suitable cultivar for cultivation in sub tropical conditions like Kazeroon.