Volume 54 Number 3 Article 21 Pages: 114-117
Year 2000 Month 7
Title: Muscadine Traits Potentially Useful in Breeding
Author: C.L. Gupton
Citation
Abstract:
Twenty-seven muscadine cultivars were evaluated to characterize them for traits that are potentially
useful in breeding.
Ranges among cultivars were: Yield-31 Kg per vine, percentage of berries with dry
scar-41, berry weight-10 g, °Brix-6, number of seeds per berry-1, pH of ripe berries-0.9, and seed
weight-8 g, suggesting that gains from breeding is possible for most traits.
Fresh fruit cultivars need improvement in one or more of these traits.
Pearson correlation coefficients of yield versus berry weight
and seed weight were either negative or non-significant.
Unlike most small fruits, berry weight was either not correlated or negatively correlated with number of seeds per berry.
Variation in seed count among cultivars was small.
Most cultivars produced three or four seeds per berry.
Only 'Summit' and
'Fry' produced less than three seeds per berry.
Except in 1998, the relationship between number of seeds
per berry and seed weight was not significant.
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