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Volume 30, No. (6), 2020 (December)
ROLE OF COMPATIBLE POLLINIZER FOR COMMERCIAL OLIVE PRODUCTION IN POTHWAR, PAKISTAN.
A. Iqbal, A. Mahmood, M. A. Khan, T. Ahmad, M. Azam, M. I. N. Bhatti, A. A. Awan, I. A. Hafiz

A. Iqbal1, A. Mahmood2, M. A. Khan3, T. Ahmad3, M. Azam4, M. I. N. Bhatti5, A. A. Awan6, I. A. Hafiz3*

1Barani Agricultural Research Institute, Chakwal, 2Ayub Agriculture Research Institute, Faisalabad, Department of Horticulture, PMAS-Arid Agriculture University, Rawalpindi Pakistan, 4Institute of Horticultural sciences, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, 5Izhar Olive Farm, Kalar Kahar, 6 Pakistan, Pakistan Oilseed Development Board

Corresponding Author: decenthafiz@gmail.com
Page Number(s): 1612-1621
Published Online First: August 03, 2020
Publication Date: August 03, 2020
ABSTRACT

The final fruit yield is significantly correlated to fruit set which is directly dependent upon self-incompatibility (SI), pollination ability, extent of cross-compatibility among cultivars, and prevailing environmental conditions especially suitable temperature regimes during anthesis. Four Italian cultivars viz. Coratina, Frantoio, Ottobratica, and Leccino under the agro-climatic conditions of Pothwar (Pakistan) were included in these studies during the years of 2017 & 2018. Each variety exhibited different values for the initial fruit set, final fruit set, number of shotberries and extent of self-incompatibility index. The SI resulted through reciprocal crosses depicted that cv. Coratina (0.80), cv. Frantoio (0.67) and cv. Leccino (0.73) possessed partial self-incompatibility while cv. Ottobratica (0.43) was found completely self-incompatible in studied environmental conditions. Cross-compatibility results based on fruit set percentage indicated that the cultivars can efficiently pollinize other cultivars and set good fruit yield, however, the cultivars pairs Coratina/Frantoio was at top and pair of Ottobratica/ Leccino was at the bottom. Thus, the selection and plantation of suitable pollinizers in olive orchards is a prerequisite through which deficiency in fruit setting and attaining commercial yield in olive orchards could be achieved.

Keywords: olive, Pakistan, self-incompatibility index, pollinizer, cross-compatibility

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