Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Erzincan Üniversitesi Fen Bilimleri Enstitüsü Dergisi, cilt.16, sa.2, ss.482-490, 2023 (Hakemli Dergi)
Biodiversity is an achievement that has been formed since the existence of living things in the world and that we human beings are obliged to protect. Maintaining the balance of changes in living species and numbers in the face of biotic and abiotic stress factors and natural events will only be possible by preserving biological diversity. Considering that almost 50% of the global economy is related to biological products and their consumption processes, the importance of this issue will be understood more. Jujube is also a specie of fruit that is still popular in Türkiye and is considered one of the elements of biodiversity. This study was carried out to evaluate the morphological and pomological diversity of 18 different jujube ecotypes that seed-propagated in Dinar District of Afyonkarahisar Province. For pomological measurements, jujube fruits were harvested when the peel color was less than 50% brown-red and healthy leaf samples were taken for morphological measurement in the same period. According to the results of the research, leaf length, leaf width, fruit length, fruit width, fruit weight, endocarp length, endocarp width and endocarp weight values of the studied genotypes are found to be 29.47-50.66 mm, 13.35-28.70 mm, 14.72-38.93 mm, 14.79-35.72 mm, 1.51-17.54 g, 7.42-23.87 mm, 5.12-11.00 mm, 0.20-1.55 g, respectively. The fact that the morphological and pomological diversity of the jujube genetic resources in the region was carried out was very high, indicates the richness of a valuable treasure for jujube variety breeding.