Investigation and Analysis on Fruit Characters of 12 Mulberry Varieties at Fruit Ripening Stage
Four imported mulberry varieties,three self-bred tetraploid mulberry varieties and five Guan-gxi local mulberry varieties at ripe stage were used to investigate eight agronomic characters,including fruit sensory color,fruit morphological characters and fruit quality,by means of descriptive statistics,a-nalysis of variance and correlation to analyze the data.The results showed that there were significant differences in the 8 indexes among 12 mulberry varieties.Among them,'GuiShen 90161'was the longest fruit diameter and the largest single fruit weight,'Bai Zhenzhu'was the shortest fruit diameter and trans-verse diameter,'Yi Chuanhong'was the longest fruit diameter and the smallest fruit shape index,and'Shunxuan 6'was the smallest fruit stalk length.In terms of quality,'Shunxuan 6'had the highest solu-ble solids content,while'Cangwu 4'had the highest sugar acid ratio,'GuiShen 94208'had the highest acid content and the lowest sugar-acid ratio.The results provide a reference for the development and utili-zation of mulberry resources,variety breeding,Mulberry diversified development and utilization.
Fruit mulberryRipe fruitSensory colorAppearance and formQuality character