Floral Biology, Fruit Development and Yield of Grumichama (Eugenia Dombeyi Skeels)

Date

10-1973

Degree

Bachelor of Science in Agriculture

Major Course

Major in Agronomy

College

College of Agriculture and Food Science (CAFS)

Adviser/Committee Chair

Ramon V. Valmayor

Co-adviser

Rene Rafael C Espino

Abstract

The flowers of grumichama are borne on terminal and axillary inflorescence, each flower cluster bears from 4 to 8 individual flowers. The flower is actinomorphic and complete. Flower buds take about two months to develop up to flower opening. Anthesis starts at 4:45 a.m. and completed at 6:00 in the morning. Fifteen minutes after anthesis, dehiscence of pollen and is completed within an hour.

Growth of the grunichama fruit follows the signold curve. Fruit growth is characterized by slow, gradual increase in Fruit weight until shortly before maturity. The fruit weight at maturity had a mean of 3.8 and 4.2 grams for Piracheba and Rio de Janeiro, respectively.

The yield of two strains included in this study show that Rio de Janeiro with an average of 1.58 kg per plant was more productive than Piracicaba which gave an average of 0.61 kg. per plant

Language

English

Location

UPLB Main Library Special Collections Section (USCS)

Call Number

LG 993.5 1973 A42 P37

Document Type

Thesis

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