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Chinese Agricultural Science Bulletin ›› 2015, Vol. 31 ›› Issue (25): 85-89.doi: 10.11924/j.issn.1000-6850.casb15030201

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Study on Botany Characteristics and Biology Characteristics of Five Special Pollination Apple Varieties

  

  • Received:2015-03-25 Revised:2015-07-24 Accepted:2015-05-25 Online:2015-09-23 Published:2015-09-23

Abstract: The study aims to realize single apple variety breeding of apple orchard early, improve apple production efficiency and breeding a good pollination variety, thus to provide suitable and efficient pollination tree for China’s apple planting. 5 apple special pollination trees including Malus‘Dolgo’, M.‘Red splender’, M.‘Radiant’, M.‘Manchurica’and M.‘Snowdrift’which were 10 years old were used as the test materials, and the botanical, biological and pollen characteristics, as well as fruit characters and qualities were observed and analyzed. The results showed that the flowering of the tested crabapple (Malus sp.) varieties met with that of the major cultivars like‘Gala’,‘Golden marshal’and‘Fuji’apple and so on. Pollen grain quantity per anther of these special pollination cultivars were all large, and the pollen grain quantity per anther of M.‘Dolgo’, M.‘Manchurica’, M.‘Red splender’, M.‘Snowdrift’and M.‘Radiant’were 13384, 13162, 7426, 6074 and 6003 grain/anther, respectively. Fruit weight was different among the tested varieties, the fruit weight of M.‘Dolgo’was the largest which was 12.98 g, followed by that of M.‘Snowdrift’and M.‘Radiant’which were 10.66 g and 2.59 g respectively, and the fruit weight of M.‘Red splender’and M.‘Manchurica’were smaller which were both 2.00 g. The trend of fruit shape index was in consistent with that of the fruit weight. The number of seeds of M.‘Red splender’and M.‘Snowdrift’were 7 per fruit, and that of M.‘Manchurica’ was 6 per fruit, while M.‘Dolgo’and M.‘Radiant’both had 4 seeds per fruit. M.‘Dolgo’had the highest soluble sugar content which was 18.49%, followed by M.‘Manchurica’(16.33%), M.‘Snowdrift’(16.11%) and M.‘Radiant’(15.98%), and M.‘Red splender’had the lowest soluble sugar content which was 14.20%. M.‘Red splender’had the highest titratable acid content which was 1.16%, followed by M.‘Radiant’(0.99%) and M.‘Manchurica’(0.90%), titratable acid content was the lowest in M.‘Dolgo’which was 0.80%. In conclusion, the 5 tested varieties are suitable to be China’s apple special pollinizers.