Tuesday 6 June 2017

Understanding The Role Of Avocado Pollen In Agricultural Production

By Kevin Scott


Fruits form a critical part of the diet, because of their high nutrition value. California is the only state in America that can boast to have the most varieties of trees that produce Avocado Pollen used in the pollination process. The fruit are in plenty as from Spring, all through till fall. Flowering and pollination occurs rather queerly, for the processes are influenced by the temperate conditions of a region at different times of day.

In California, there are several varieties of the fruit. Hass is one example. In fact, it is the one produced in plenty. It has a dark peel with a rough feel, but provides very palatable flavors and enough oil. Other than that, there is the Bacon variety, which can be found being grown in moderate to cool climates. Their coats are pigmented green. Nonetheless, they tend to be fit for edibility around the month of December.

As earlier mentioned, there are Pinkerton and Fuerte types of avocados. The latter ones are in plentiful in markets towards the end of fall. This is mostly during the months of December, all the way to May. The upside of its cultivation is that growers need not worry about frosting temperatures lowering their quality. Pinkerton types have smaller seeds and are in season during winter to spring.

When a grower decides to make use of two trees, there is critical information about their flowering and pollination that they need to learn about. The plants are perfect. That means that they produce flowers, and have a female part. They have male parts too. Nevertheless, they behave anomalously, because, these parts open at varied times, depending on the type of plant, and the degrees of atmospheric temperature. Therefore, fertilization through self-pollination is virtually impossible.

Depending on the sort of avocado you cultivate, they can either be of type A, or type B trees. Type A open their pistils, female part, in the dawn of the first day, and their stamens, male part, in the afternoon of the following day. B type flowers open up in the afternoon of the first day, but the stamen blossom the following dawn.

Pollination is when pollen detaches from the stamen and collected by the pistil of another tree to mark the commencement of fertilization. Insects, specifically bees, play a very important role in transferring pollen grains from the male to the female of another tree in their verge of feeding. Nonetheless, in Texas and Florida, wind pollination occurs commonly.

Like any other agricultural sector, the effect of pests and diseases is also felt by growers of avocado. Infected plants produce low volumes of fruits. Scientist have conducted researches on the potential organisms and diseases associated with the plant. These are mainly; lauren wilt disease, polyphagous shot hole borer, and diseases like Fusarium dieback, which is spread by the aforementioned borer.

Avocado cultivation in America is a lucrative commercial activity. However, growers ought to be informed about the critical issues that touch on the agricultural sector in a bid to realize bountiful harvests. Being versed about the pests and diseases related to cultivation can help one learn how to mitigate their impact on production.




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