Biometric analysis on diversity of coconut palm cultivar classification by botanical and agronomical traits：（生物的多样性分析椰子棕榈植物品种分类和农艺性状）.pdfVIP

Euphytica 98: 29–35, 1997. 29 c 1997 Kluwer Academic Publishers. Printed in the Netherlands. Biometric analysis on diversity of coconut palm: cultivar classification by botanical and agronomical traits 1;5 1 2 3 Yukio Sugimura , Morihide Itano , Christine D. Salud , Kazuya Otsuji Hirofumi Yamaguchi4 1 Tochigi Research Laboratories, Kao Corporation, Ichikai, Haga, Tochigi, 321-34, Japan; 2 MORAZ Agricultural Management and Development Corporation, Tagoloan, Misamis Oriental, Philippines; 3 Kashima Research Laboratories, Kao Corporation, Kamisu, Kashima, Ibaraki 314-02, Japan; 4 College of Agriculture, Osaka Prefecture University, Sakai, Osaka 593, Japan; 5 present address: Department of Applied Biology, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Matsugasaki, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606, Japan Received 28 December 1995; accepted 27 June 1997 Key words: biometric analysis, coconut, Cocos nucifera, cultivar classification Summary Botanical and agronomical traits were observed using 39 cultivars of coconut palms which mainly collected in the Philippines, and statistically analyzed to clarify the variation between and within cultivar groups (typica, nana and javanica ). Although there were broad variations in all the traits except for several male flower characters, significant differences among three cultivars were found in a dozen of traits. The variation within a cultivar group was higher in typica andjavanica . Nana was noted as an aggregate group, which was far distance from typica. Javanica was characterized as the intermediate group having overlapping boundaries with other groups. Introduction we collected many seednuts from not only the local but