Variability of morphometric characteristics of Hungarian oak (Quercus frainetto Ten.) acorn
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Vladan Popović; Ljubinko Rakonjac; Sanja Jovanović; Ivica Lazarević; Aleksandar Lučić
- Source
- Sustainable Forestry: Collection. :19-27
- Subject
- 0106 biological sciences
biology
Forestry
biology.organism_classification
Acorn
010603 evolutionary biology
01 natural sciences
Quercus frainetto
010606 plant biology & botany
- Language
- ISSN
- 1821-1046
The results of morphometric analysis of Hungarian oak seeds originating from Lipovica Forest Management Unit are presented in this paper. The seeds have been collected from 50 trees evenly distributed on the forest management unit area. The length, width and mass of acorns are measured on the sample consisting of 50 acorns per tree. The volume and shape index of acorns are calculated based on the measured values of their length and width. The mean values of morphometric characteristics obtained in research indicate there is a high variability among the studied genotypes. The latter has also been confirmed by means of an analysis of variance which determined statistically significant differences between the sampled mother trees for all the observed morphometric characteristics. The results obtained represent a good starting point for future research on breeding of the species and can be utilised for improvement of the mass production of high quality Hungarian oak planting material in Serbia.