During the period 2008-09 a58 Afghan and 18 foreign pomegranate accessions have been collected and grown under homogeneous environmental and cultivation practice conditions in ex situ collections. Standardized procedures were adopted to describe mature trees, leaves, flowers and fruits for a total of 30 phenotypic traits. Principal component analysis revealed the absence of correlated variables among different organs. The whole set of accessions resulted discriminated on the basis of the studied morphological parameters and all the accessions were grouped into 3 sub-sets by hierarchical cluster analysis. Local accessions resulted distributed in the 3 clusters, nevertheless the largest one held all the foreign varieties while the second one included all the accessions collected under the putative name of ‘Bedana’. The adopted morphological studies allowed to identify one true-to-type ‘Bedana’ accession, considered the best Afghan variety for fresh consume due to its very soft seed, and to solve the cases of homonymy.

Selected pomegranate germplasm from Afghanistan: Morphological variability and relationship among collected accessions / Giordani, E; Berti, M.; Yaqubi, M. Rauf; Stanikzai, S.; Amad, A.; Zadran, B.; Saeedi, A.; Ghous, M.. - In: ADVANCES IN HORTICULTURAL SCIENCE. - ISSN 0394-6169. - ELETTRONICO. - 30:(2016), pp. 225-230. [10.13128/ahs-20348]

Selected pomegranate germplasm from Afghanistan: Morphological variability and relationship among collected accessions

GIORDANI, EDGARDO;
2016

Abstract

During the period 2008-09 a58 Afghan and 18 foreign pomegranate accessions have been collected and grown under homogeneous environmental and cultivation practice conditions in ex situ collections. Standardized procedures were adopted to describe mature trees, leaves, flowers and fruits for a total of 30 phenotypic traits. Principal component analysis revealed the absence of correlated variables among different organs. The whole set of accessions resulted discriminated on the basis of the studied morphological parameters and all the accessions were grouped into 3 sub-sets by hierarchical cluster analysis. Local accessions resulted distributed in the 3 clusters, nevertheless the largest one held all the foreign varieties while the second one included all the accessions collected under the putative name of ‘Bedana’. The adopted morphological studies allowed to identify one true-to-type ‘Bedana’ accession, considered the best Afghan variety for fresh consume due to its very soft seed, and to solve the cases of homonymy.
2016
30
225
230
Giordani, E; Berti, M.; Yaqubi, M. Rauf; Stanikzai, S.; Amad, A.; Zadran, B.; Saeedi, A.; Ghous, M.
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