Senay Kurt, Ertugrul TURGUTOGLU, Gulay DEMİR

“BATEM Göral”; New mandarin cultivar

Citrus is the most widely produced fruit group in the world. Approximately 3 million tons of citrus fruit are produced in Turkey. With total export of one million tons, our country is ranking as the 4th Citrus exporter in the world and ranking as the 2nd among the Mediterranean countries. Mandarin production is 874.832 tons in Turkey and 8,72% of total mandarin production was Clementine mandarin in 2012. From different citrus ecological regions top selection of qualified individuals at “Citrus Budwood Selection-Certification and Variety Development Project” 7 promising types were selected from the Clementine mandarin types and BATEM Göral has been registered as new mandarin cultivar in 2011. BATEM Göral have been compared with Clementine mandarin in distinctness, uniformity and stability tests (DUS). In study results showed that ‘BATEM Göral’ has larger fruit weight and diameter

Keywords:

mandarin, Clementine variety, register, selection,

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