Development of Chance Seedling Varieties of Date Palm from Exotic Cultivars at Agro-Climatic Conditions of Faisalabad, Pakistan
Development of Chance Seedling Varieties of Date Palm from Exotic Cultivars at Agro-Climatic Conditions of Faisalabad, Pakistan
Muhammad Zahid Rashid1, Amina1*, Hafiz Wasif Javaad2, Muhammad Asim Rashid3 and Amina Rashid3
ABSTRACT
The goal of the current study was to evaluate the performance of various date palm cultivars in agro-climatic conditions of Faisalabad. Different vegetative parameters such as, No. of days taken to start of germination/survival percentage, number of fronds, number of seeds survived, plant height, leaf area, suckers evolved and other parameters were noted for better yield and quality of date palm for purpose of chance seedlings development. This research experiment was arranged at Progeny orchard of Horticultural Research Institute, Faisalabad during the year 2019-2021.The research was designed according to Randomized Completely Block Design (RCBD) with eighteen treatments having four replicates. The documented data was statistically assessed by using analysis of variance and means of treatments were compared by employing LSD test. Twenty different date palm cultivar seeds were put in sterilized soil. According to the outcomes, the Amber variety of date palm performed better than other date palm varieties in terms of many physical characteristics, including highest survival rate (100%) and plant height (126.5 cm), stem girth (38.3 cm) and leaf area (116.1 cm2). Another variety, Mabroon, demonstrated exceptional results in terms of the number of leaflets/frond (73.0) and the number of suckers (5.5). As a result, it can be concluded that among all the exotic date palm germplasm investigated, Amber and Mabroon were found best in the characteristic under study.
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