Flower buds of capers were processed by some common methods as pickling,
salting, and other uncommon like freezing with and without blanching and canning. The
results showed that there was no microbiological growth in all methods since the fourth
month of storage. Best growth for lactobacillus bacteria was in 5% brine (8.2 × 106) and
then in 8% brine (1.2 × 106)CFU.g-1 . while there wasn’t any growth of this bacteria by
using other methods like using high concentration of salt 23%. On other hand, the results
showed that this bacteria existed in small account (1.4 × 102) and (1.1 × 102) CFU.g-1
after a week in brine 16% and the freezed sample respectively. There was no statistical
difference between the two storage solutions as there wasn̓ t any microbiological growth in
both of them through 8 months.
A field experiment was conducted for two consecutive seasons 2006 – 2007
and 2007 – 2008 to investigate the effect of removing early developed buds on
growth, yield and some lint proprieties. Treatments involved in the experiment
included three le
vels of bud removal (0%, 50%, and 100%) at three times (one,
two and three weeks after budding). The treatments were arranged in FRCBD,
with three replications. Growth parameters (plant height, number of
nodes/plant, number of leaves/plant, and number of branches/plant) cotton
seed yield, lint yield and lint properties were investigated. The results revealed
that bud removal significantly increased plant height, number of nodes, cotton
seed yield and lint yield, uniformity (UR) and lint strength (HVI). Also the
results showed that, time of bud removal significantly affected growth
parameters, cotton seed yield and lint cotton. The results indicated that,
varieties and time of bud removal interaction had a significant affect on growth
parameters. While, percentage of bud removal and time of bud removal
interaction had a significant effect only on cotton seed yield and strength of lint.
The results showed that, there were significant difference between cultivars in
plant height and number of branches per plant, with cultivar Barakat – 90 the
best.
