Determination of Fruit, Leaf and Stomata Characteristics of Culture and Wild Jujuba ( <i>Ziziphus jujuba</i> Mill.) Genotypes Grown in Sanliurfa Conditions

Ikinci A., Erol B. A. K., Dikmetas B., Hatipoglu İ. H.

KSU TARIM VE DOGA DERGISI-KSU JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURE AND NATURE, cilt.25, ss.441-451, 2022 (ESCI, TRDizin)

Özet

This research was carried out in 2021 to determine the fruit, leaf and stomata characteristics of jujube ( Ziziphus jujuba Mill.) genotypes grown in two separate orchards in Sanliurfa province, which has arid and semi-arid ecological conditions in the Southeastern Anatolia Region. In the jujube genotypes examined in the study; fruit weight was 2.78-20.28 g, fruit length was 21.77-39.47 mm, fruit width was 18.62-37.23 mm, leaf area was 3.11-7.01 cm(2), leaf width was 1.31-2.65 cm and leaf length was 3.29-5.09 cm. In the jujube genotypes, the number of stomata is 323.30 units mm(-2) (culture jujube)-333.31 units mm-2 (wild jujube), mean stomatal length and width are 27.22 (wild jujube)-28.00 mu m (culture jujube) and 18.21 (wild jujube)-20.05 mu m (culture jujube). According to these results, it was determined that the number of stomata, stomatal width and length values of the wild jujube genotype, which has a smaller leaf area, did not differ statistically from the culture jujube genotype. In this respect, it is thought that the jujube plant can be used successfully in afforestation studies in arid and semi-arid ecologies, due to the fact that the stomatal density per unit area is higher than other species.