Study Of Quantitative And Qualitative Chlttacters Of Nectarine Cultivars Under Climatic Conditions Of Isfahan

In order to select high yielding cultivars with desirable fruit quality, in this experiment 12 nectarine cultivars, were evaluated in a Randomized Complete block design with 3 replications, in the Kaboutarabad Agricultural Research Station, Isfahan for a 9 years period. Different traits of the cultivars such as vegetative characters, yield and qualitative characters where studied during the period of experiment. In each year simple analysis, and at the end of experiment combined analysis of varince was done on the data. The combined ANOV A results showed that year and cultivar had significant effects on yield and vegetative characters of trees. In means comparison with DMRT method, cultivar Independence with 133178 kgha-1 had the highest yield and cultivar Sunking had the highest vegetative growth among the cultivars. The results also showed that from different points of view such as adaptability, vegetative characteristics, and quantitative and qualitative characters, cultivars Independence, Nectard 6, Sunking, Sungold, Sefide Mashhad and Kuota were perior to the other cultivars. Therefore these cultivars can be recommended as suitable cultivars for Isfahan areas.