Long-term storage. Flowers pollinated with dehydrated pollen stored at subfreezing temperatures for 3 or 9 months exhibited 100% fruit set, but fruit set was only 60% to 70% when flowers were pollinated with pollen stored at 4 °C (data not shown). Generally, for both species, pollen stored at 4 °C yielded smaller fruit than did pollen stored at subfreezing temperatures. The heaviest fruits of Hundatus were produced with pollen stored in liquid nitrogen (Fig. 2). Weight of fruit set by pollen stored at subfreezing temperatures was comparable to that of fruits produced by fresh pollen in commercial orchards (410 ± 48 g for H. undatus and 330 ± 35 g for H. polyrhizus).
Seed number was significantly lower in fruits produced by pollen stored for 9 months at 4 °C than in those produced by pollen kept at subfreezing temperatures, but seed germination was high (≈90%) regardless of storage temperature (Table 1). Similar germination percentages and relationships between fruit FW and seed number were observed for fruits of the two species produced by fresh pollen (Weiss et al., 1994).
红字意思(花朵经脱水后贮藏于零度以下3至9个月的花粉授粉后结果率100%)
Variable(变量) +4 –18 –70 –196 Control(对照组)
H. undatus(白肉火龙果)
Seed no. per fruit(单果种子数) 2538 b 5014 a 5645 a 6067 a 5988 a
Seed germinability(种子发芽率)(%) 94 a 95 a 96 a 94 a 96 a
H. polyrhizus(红肉火龙果)
Seed no. per fruit(单果种子数) 2416 b 5084 a 4784 a 5072 a 4978 a
Seed germinability(种子发芽率)(%) 85 a 91 a --- 90 a 93 a