Fruit size variability in rosehip (Rosa canina L.) populations from Arad County
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.59463/entf4625Keywords:
dog rose, environment effect, fruits size categoriesAbstract
The rosehip is a perennial shrub that can grow as a solitary plant or in small groups in thickets, open areas, forest edges. Due to the growing interest in plant agents enriched with antioxidant activities properties; these plants acquire an increasingly wider application in the food, cosmetics, and pharmaceutical industries. Rosehips are pseudocarp or false fruit, consisting of fleshy walls surrounding a cavity containing the single-seeded fruits or achenes. Fruit size and shape are two major factors determining yield, quality and the utility for many crops species, and also in rosehip. The 24-rosehip populations were collected from different locations of Arad County located in the West of Romania. The rosehip ripe fruits were randomly picked from different sides of the canopy for three shrubs of each population. The harvested fruits were sampled into three categories: small (below 1 g), medium (1-2 g) and large (over 2 g). The contribution of the fruits categories to the harvest was calculated based on percent from total fruits weight and from total fruits number. The aim of this study was to determine the impact of the climatic conditions over 2022-2024 on the fruit size in 24-rosehip populations from Arad County. The variation of climatic conditions had the highest influence on fruit size in populations Bacaul de Mijloc, Vladimirescu, Bocsig, where the proportion of large fruits as a percentage of the total fruits weight was considerably reduced, and in populations Gurba, Beliu, Bocsig as a percentage of the total fruits number. In the case of the number of large fruits, the effects of the genotype-environment interaction were lower than in the case of fruit weight
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