CEFYBO   02669
CENTRO DE ESTUDIOS FARMACOLOGICOS Y BOTANICOS
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
artículos
Título:
Pollination in chinese-Japanese plum
Autor/es:
NENCETTI V; GIORDANI E; BELLINI E; RADICE S
Revista:
ACTA HORTICULTURAE
Editorial:
ISHS
Referencias:
Lugar: Palermo, Italia; Año: 2010 vol. 874 p. 203 - 212
ISSN:
0567-7572
Resumen:
Efficient pollination is fundamental for guaranteeing adequate productivity
in Japanese plum. Total gametophytic self-incompatibility distinguishes all cultivars
of this pomological group and makes it necessary to plant suitable pollinizers able to
guarantee an adequate production of fertile pollen during anthesis. Based on studies
carried out over more than a decade at the Horticulture Department, University of
Florence (DOFI), observations of numerous cultivars and genotypes obtained from
crosses have revealed the main characteristics required for a good pollinizer include
elevated production of flowers, long anthesis period which is stable from year to
year, scalar flowering, abundant pollen production, high viability and fertility of
pollen grains corresponding to high germinability. It is also important that the good
pollinizers show interfertility with the majority of widespread cultivars and that
their flowers are very attractive to pollinating insects.