ISHS Acta Horticulturae 373: I International Congress on Almond
STIGMA/ANTHERS SPATIAL RELATIONSHIP IN SELF-FERTILE AND SELF-STERILE ALMONDS |
| Authors: | L. de Palma, A. Godini |
| Keywords: | Prunus dulcis, Amygdalus communis, flower sexual organs, flower morphology, biological behaviour |
| Abstract:
A comparative study concerning the stigma/anthers reciprocal position in 15 self- fertile and 15 self-sterile almond cultivars has been carried out. No statistically different values of stigma/anthers spatial distance were found according to the biological behaviour of the cultivars. Moreover, self-fertile almonds exhibited a more pronounced epistigmatism compared to self-sterile ones. The results obtained suggest that the reciprocal stigma/anthers position within the same flower should be interpreted just as a morphological trait of almond cultivars, totally independent of their biological behaviour. | |
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