SEED NUMBER AND AN ASYMMETRY INDEX OF MCINTOSH APPLES

Authors
BRAULT AM DEOLIVEIRA D
Citation
Am. Brault et D. Deoliveira, SEED NUMBER AND AN ASYMMETRY INDEX OF MCINTOSH APPLES, HortScience, 30(1), 1995, pp. 44-46
Citations number
15
Categorie Soggetti
Horticulture
Journal title
HortScience → ACNP
ISSN journal
00185345
Volume
30
Issue
1
Year of publication
1995
Pages
44 - 46
Database
ISI
SICI code
0018-5345(1995)30:1<44:SNAAAI>2.0.ZU;2-B
Abstract
In 'McIntosh' apples (Malus domestica Borkh.), the number of well-form ed seeds and the number of fertilized ovules (well-formed plus aborted seeds) were correlated to yield an index of asymmetry for individual fruit. In spite of different flowering and pollination conditions in 1 990 and 1991, the index of asymmetry decreased curvilinearly with incr eases in the number of well-formed seeds and of fertilized ovules in b oth years.