Evaluation of morphological and pathological performance for some local melon landraces [electronic resource].

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Eleven local melon landraces were collected from different regions of A.R.E, seeds of these melon populations were sown in complete randomize block design at EL-Kassasien Horticulture Research Station, Ismaelia Governorate, to evaluate the morphological performance, yield, quality as well as genetic relationships, and pathogenicity test for damping-off caused by fusarium spp. and Verticillium alboatrum. The results indicated that: 1) There were significant differences and wide range of variations for mean performance of all melon landraces, for all studied traits. 2) Kenna melon Landrace exhibited the highest values for plant height and internode length, on main stem, meanwhile, Kahera-6, exhibited the highest value for number of nodes, on the main stem, while fayoum melon landrace exhibted the lowest value for the above mentioned characters. 3) Melon landraces of Sandfa, EL-Wahat el Bahria, fayoum and Brolussi, as well as Kahera-6, exhibited earliness for male and female flowers opening on 50% of the plants, while Ismaelawi and Waraki exhibited the opposite. 4) For yield and fruit quality, Ismaelawi and Waraki were superior for total yield (ton/fed.), fruit yieldl plant. as well as average fruit weight, and average fruit length, width, while Fayoum melon landrace and Anannas EL-Dokki recorded the lowest values for aforementioned characters.

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