Research article

STUDY OF SOME MORPHOLOGICAL FACTORS OF LEAVES OF FIG TREES AND THEIR EFFECT ON THE RESISTANCE OF THE WAX SCALE INSECT CEROPLASTES RUSCI L (COCCIDAE: HEMIPTERA)

Anmar A. Hussein, Feryal H. Sadiq

Online First: February 15, 2023


This study was conducted at Al-Suraie Research Station / National Program for Breeding and Hybridization of Local Vegetable Crops / Department of Horticulture / Ministry of Agriculture and Laboratory of the Department of Life Sciences / College of Science / University of Baghdad for the year 2021 to study some phenotypic characteristics of the leaves of four varieties of fig trees (Waziri, Turki, Aswad Diyala, Sultani). The results showed that the shape of the hairs was of the unicellular type in the fig leaves of the four plant cultivars. The results also showed that there were significant differences in the phenotypic characteristics (number of hairs, length of hairs, cuticle thickness, blade thickness, amount of chlorophyll, leaf area) for cultivars. The four figs, as the Waziri cultivar was superior to the rest of the other plant cultivars in all studied phenotypic traits.

Keywords

Morphological factors, wax scale insect Ceroplastes rusci L., fig varieties.