EVALUATION OF SOME MUSKMELON VARIETIES UNDER THE ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS OF THE CITY OF MOSUL .

	EVALUATION OF SOME MUSKMELON VARIETIES UNDER THE ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS OF THE CITY OF MOSUL .
Journal of Tikrit University For Agriculture Sciences
Article 1, Volume 13, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 190-199
Abstract
Study was carried out at two sites of Nineweh province, location of the city of Mosul of the College of Agriculture and Forestry / University of Mosul, and the location of Hammam Alaleel which located at distance 32 km south of Mosul, during the season 2009 and the aim of a comprehensive assessment of ten varieties of muskmelon local and foreign the evaluation included characteristics of vegetative growth, and yield the quantitative and qualitative characteristics of fruits carried out the experiment design sectors randomized complete R.C.B.D. and three replicates for all characteristics, and make statistical analysis of each site separately and also conducted compilation analysis of the two sites and the all qualities. The results showed that there are significant differences in the studied traits for the ten varieties and characterized cultivar Baste in the majority of adjectives vegetative growth and for both locations while the Excellence cultivar KaroLee to gave highest product of quantitative 66,8 and 44,8 t / ha for the two sites by following, and the analysis of accumulative of the two sites were indicated superiority of cultivar Baste in adjectives plant height, number of branches and number of leaves. while the highest total production for the variety KaroLee gave 56,4 t / ha, followed by cultivar hafith himself gave 48,28 tons / ha means that the results of the analysis the accumulative of two sites and analysis for each site was demonstrating the superiority of cultivars KaroLee and hafith himself to give the highest productivity unit area .
Keywords
Varieties; Mosul

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