TITLE:
Fruit Setting Behaviour of Passion Fruit
AUTHORS:
Mira Rani Das, Tofazzal Hossain, M. A. Baset Mia, J. U. Ahmed, A. J. M. Sirajul Kariman, M. Mofazzal Hossain
KEYWORDS:
Passion Fruit; Fruit Setting; Flash; Pollination
JOURNAL NAME:
American Journal of Plant Sciences,
Vol.4 No.5,
May
29,
2013
ABSTRACT:
Passion fruit has
great prospective to fascinate fruit consumer for its taste and delicious fruit
juice and improvement of the economic condition of the fruit grower in the
developing countries. The self-incompatibility in the passion fruits is
an imperative reason to be considered regarding fruit production. Pollination is an essential for self-sterile crops as passion fruit (Passiflora
edulis Sims.). The
experiment was conducted in the field and laboratories of the Bangabandhu
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Agricultural University, Salna, Gazipur, Bangladesh to
investigate the fruit setting behavior of passion fruits at during five
flashes. We estimated to study fruit setting behavior of passion fruit at
different flashes and determine effective pollination method and suitable
flashes among five flashes. Result revealed that percent of fruit set of
passion fruit was recorded highest; Seeds per plant were recorded highest in
third flash when flowers were pollinated by hand compared with self-, and
natural pollinations. Length-breadth ratios of fruits in third flashes were
recorded higher when pollinates by hand. Individual fruit weight was also
recorded higher at third flash. Plants required minimum days from flower
anthesis to full maturity during third flash. On the other hand, fruit growth behavior of hand pollinated
flowers was recorded higher during third flash of passion fruit. Results
indicated that all studied
characteristics of
fruit and seed of passion fruit of third flash performed best.