Table 1.

Seed number and average germination rate (%) per reciprocal cross in the 2016 and 2018 experiments.

Crosses	Seeds	Germination 1
	(n°)	(%)
‘Arbosana’ × ‘Koroneiki’	104	54.8 bcd
‘Koroneiki’ × ‘Arbosana’	104	56.7 bcd
‘Arbosana’ × ‘Frantoio’	104	68.3 cd
‘Frantoio’ × ‘Arbosana’	104	56.7 bcd
‘Picual’ × ‘Frantoio’	104	76.0 de
‘Frantoio’ × ‘Picual’	104	62.5 bcd
‘Arbosana’ × ‘Sikitita’	104	29.8 a
‘Sikitita’ × ‘Arbosana’	104	42.3 ab
‘Arbosana’ × ‘Arbequina’	104	29.8 a
‘Arbequina’ × ‘Arbosana’	104	50.0 abc
‘Frantoio’ open pollination	52	55.8 bcd
‘Picual’ open pollination	52	48.6 ab
Mean 2016	1144	52.6
‘Picual’ × ‘Frantoio’	160	56.3 b
‘Frantoio’ × ‘Picual’	152	36.2 ab
‘Arbosana’ × ‘Sikitita’	206	39.3 ab
‘Sikitita’ × ‘Arbosana’	156	23.7 a
‘Frantoio’ open pollination	81	72.8 bc
‘Picual’ open pollination	93	80.6 c
Mean 2018	848	51.5
Total	1992	52.2

¹ Germination values followed by the same letter are not significantly different according to a chi-square test (p = 0.05).