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The impact of calcium chloride, potassium nitrate and flower thinning on yield component and fruit quality of Manfalouty pomegranate cultivar

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Last updated: 01 Jan 2025

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Horticulture (Vegetable, Pomology and Ornamentals)

Abstract

Pomegranate growers in Egypt have been struggling with a variety of production issues, including splitting, sunburn, and a lack of proper colour intensity and consistency, which are major barriers to attaining high quality fruit. The present research designed to evaluate the effects of calcium chloride (CaCl2), potassium nitrate (KNO3) and flower thinning on reducing this disorders and improving fruit quality. Seven treatments were carried including foliar application with CaCl2 2 and 4%, KNO3 250 and 500 ppm alone or combined with flower thinning and control (spraying with water). The spraying treatments took place three times, at the beginning of flowering (during April), after fruit set completion (first July) and before harvesting (first September), during the two seasons of study. Hand flower thinning was done to all the flowers that appeared during the last week of May till the end of flowering period. The obtained results indicated that spraying 500 ppm KNO3 or 4% CaCl2 alone or combined with flower thinning are considered the best treatments in its effects on the yield components, fruit quality, anthocyanin content and decreasing the fruit cracking.

DOI

10.21608/ajas.2023.174474.1199

Keywords

CaCl2, KNO3, Flower thinning, Anthocyanin, fruit cracking

Authors

First Name

Aiman

Last Name

Mohamed

MiddleName

K.A.

Affiliation

Pomology Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt

Email

ayman.mohamed@agr.aun.edu.eg

City

Assiut

Orcid

0000-0002-6830-3994

First Name

Mokhtar

Last Name

Shaaban

MiddleName

M.

Affiliation

Pomology Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt

Email

mokhtar.shaban@agr.aun.edu.eg

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Aliaa

Last Name

Abd El-Hamid

MiddleName

M.

Affiliation

Pomology Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt

Email

mohamedaliaa706@yahoo.com

City

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Orcid

-

First Name

Azza

Last Name

Hussein

MiddleName

S.

Affiliation

Pomology Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt

Email

azza.mohamed@agr.aun.edu.eg

City

Assiut

Orcid

-

Volume

54

Article Issue

1

Related Issue

39278

Issue Date

2023-01-01

Receive Date

2022-11-14

Publish Date

2023-01-25

Page Start

213

Page End

226

Print ISSN

1110-0486

Online ISSN

2356-9840

Link

https://ajas.journals.ekb.eg/article_287507.html

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https://ajas.journals.ekb.eg/service?article_code=287507

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Original Article

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62

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Journal

Publication Title

Assiut Journal of Agricultural Sciences

Publication Link

https://ajas.journals.ekb.eg/

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The impact of calcium chloride, potassium nitrate and flower thinning on yield component and fruit quality of Manfalouty pomegranate cultivar

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Created At

23 Dec 2024