Study fruiting qualities of some of the different varieties of lemon and some camel related planted in Iraq.

Abstract

This study was conducted in private orchard in Doura region- Baghdadthrough the agricultural season 2011 and 2012 on certain lemon varieties. Theaim of study to know the physical and chemical fruit Characters .The studyshowed superiority of Panda rosa var. in physical changes (fruit weigh, fruitjuice weight, fruit skin thickness , seed number) successively, the Mahalivariety had less fruit weight juice fruit weight (80.20 , 31.30 )gm in addition toless fruit skin thickness (0.21 cm) et less seeds number 4.18 seeds/ fruit. Thechemical properties (T.S.S, acidity, vitamin C content ,these were significantdifferences, Mahali variety gave highest percentage of T.S.S 9.75%, but Pandarosa var. less percentage 8.08%. Lisbon variety gave supper percentage ofacidity 6.16%, while Mahali var. gave less acidity percentage 0.08%.For thefruit content of vitamin C it was found that Eureka had superior contentsignificantly 51.30 mg/100 gm juice, while Lemon sour(2) had less content 23mg/100 gm juice.