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The authors judge that replacing diploid by triploid males in presently seeded hop yards will probably decrease yields slightly, offset by the premium for a seedless crop.
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Title
Use of Triploid Males for Increasing Hop Yields1
Alfred Haunold Crop Science 1975. doi:10.2135/cropsci1975.0011183x001500060026x
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- Intervention effect Hand pollination of six diploid hop cultivars increased cone size by 7 to 24%, regardless of the ploidy of the pollen parent.
- Intervention effect In 1973, pollination from diploid males increased hop cone weights by an average of 46%.
- Intervention effect In 1973, pollination from triploid males increased hop cone weights by an average of 17%.
- Intervention effect Bracts plus bracteoles increased by an average of 23% over the untreated control after diploid pollination.
- Intervention effect Bracts plus bracteoles increased by an average of 11% after triploid pollination.
- Intervention effect Pollination had the most striking effect on strig length and strig weight.
- Intervention effect Pollination had little effect on the number of nodes per strig.
- Intervention effect Seeds from triploid pollination averaged less than half the weight of the open-pollinated control.
- Intervention effect Seeds from triploid pollination contained 60 to 83% aborted embryos.
- Intervention effect Seeds from diploid pollination contained only 18% aborted embryos.
- Observation Well-filled seeds were purple and usually weighed three to four times as much as tan seeds.
- Intervention effect Seeds from triploid pollination had about 25% less crude fat than seeds of the control.
- Observation Cones from triploid pollination look like seeded cones but contain only about one-fourth as many seeds as those pollinated by comparable diploid males.
- Recommendation The authors judge that hop yields in seedless production areas probably can be increased significantly by using pollen from triploid males to stimulate cone size and weight.