Style length and flower morphology of three eggplant (Solanum melongena L.) cultivars from Iran affected by fruit load
A common feature of eggplant is its heterostyly. Long-style flowers bear fruits whereas short style ones fail to do so. Heterostyly is influenced by some factors such as genotype, climatic conditions and fruit load. In this study three eggplant cultivars from Iran were cultivated under greenhouse c...
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A common feature of eggplant is its heterostyly. Long-style flowers bear fruits whereas short style ones fail to do so. Heterostyly is influenced by some factors such as genotype, climatic conditions and fruit load. In this study three eggplant cultivars from Iran were cultivated under greenhouse condition. The influence of presence of fruit (two fruits and four fruits) or absence of that on style length and some other flower morphological was studied in three positions of single, basal and additional. The presence of fruit, specially four fruits reduced style length, stigma width as well as mass of flower, pistil and stigma compared to the control in all times during fruit growth, and after fruit harvest they increased again. Fruit load didn’t affect the number of stamen and stamen length. These effects were observed in all three positons of single, basal and additional flowers of all three cultivars. Generally this study showed that fruit load has decreasing effect on style length and size of flowers forming after fruit setting, which reversed after fruit harvesting.
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| spelling | doaj.art-16254967f9754744ad7b7f355f4228a72023-09-03T07:55:46ZengUniversity of Ljubljana Press (Založba Univerze v Ljubljani)Acta Agriculturae Slovenica1854-19412021-11-01117310.14720/aas.2021.117.3.193819419Style length and flower morphology of three eggplant (Solanum melongena L.) cultivars from Iran affected by fruit loadSedighehsadat KHALEGHI0Bahram BANINASAB1Mostafa MOBLI2Department of Horticulture science, Faculty of Agriculture, Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran 8415683111Department of Horticulture science, Faculty of Agriculture, Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran 8415683111Department of Horticulture science, Faculty of Agriculture, Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran 8415683111 A common feature of eggplant is its heterostyly. Long-style flowers bear fruits whereas short style ones fail to do so. Heterostyly is influenced by some factors such as genotype, climatic conditions and fruit load. In this study three eggplant cultivars from Iran were cultivated under greenhouse condition. The influence of presence of fruit (two fruits and four fruits) or absence of that on style length and some other flower morphological was studied in three positions of single, basal and additional. The presence of fruit, specially four fruits reduced style length, stigma width as well as mass of flower, pistil and stigma compared to the control in all times during fruit growth, and after fruit harvest they increased again. Fruit load didn’t affect the number of stamen and stamen length. These effects were observed in all three positons of single, basal and additional flowers of all three cultivars. Generally this study showed that fruit load has decreasing effect on style length and size of flowers forming after fruit setting, which reversed after fruit harvesting. https://journals.uni-lj.si/aas/article/view/13027eggplantfloral morphologyheterostylypresence of fruitstyle length |
| spellingShingle | Sedighehsadat KHALEGHI Bahram BANINASAB Mostafa MOBLI Style length and flower morphology of three eggplant (Solanum melongena L.) cultivars from Iran affected by fruit load Acta Agriculturae Slovenica eggplant floral morphology heterostyly presence of fruit style length |
| title | Style length and flower morphology of three eggplant (Solanum melongena L.) cultivars from Iran affected by fruit load |
| title_full | Style length and flower morphology of three eggplant (Solanum melongena L.) cultivars from Iran affected by fruit load |
| title_fullStr | Style length and flower morphology of three eggplant (Solanum melongena L.) cultivars from Iran affected by fruit load |
| title_full_unstemmed | Style length and flower morphology of three eggplant (Solanum melongena L.) cultivars from Iran affected by fruit load |
| title_short | Style length and flower morphology of three eggplant (Solanum melongena L.) cultivars from Iran affected by fruit load |
| title_sort | style length and flower morphology of three eggplant solanum melongena l cultivars from iran affected by fruit load |
| topic | eggplant floral morphology heterostyly presence of fruit style length |
| url | https://journals.uni-lj.si/aas/article/view/13027 |
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