Evaluation of Some Fruit Quality of Date Palm Cv. “Madjool” Grown Under Climate Conditions in El Wahat El Bahria and New valley Oasis
Paper ID : 1042-FCANVU
Authors
Mona Taha Samouny *
Center Laboratory For Research and Development of Date Palms, Agricultural Research centre
Abstract
This study was carried out to evaluate the performance fruit quality of Date Palm Cv. “Madjool” trees grown under two different climate conditions i.e. El Wahat El Bahria Oasis and New valley Oasis during 2021 and 2022 seasons. The climate play an important role in fruit quality and physical characteristics , where is found the greatest value of fruit weight, flesh weight , fruit length and appearance of homogeneous dark brown color in El-Wahat El-Baharia region but appearance two color light brown at the funnel of fruits and dark brown color at the rest of fruits in New valley region that may be due to the humid climate which improved physical characteristics in El-Wahat El-Baharia region than the dry climate in New valley region . Fruit quality was affected by climate region whereas the highest values were achieved with humid climate. The fruit chemicals properties were not differed according to climate conditions in the regions .
Keywords
Fruit Quality, Date Palm, Madjool, El Wahat El Bahria Oasis , New valley Oasis, Humid climate
Status: Accepted