Water relations and quality changes throughout fruit development and shelf life of sweet cherry grown under regulated deficit irrigation

Víctor Blanco, Ginés Benito Martínez-Hernández, Francisco Artés-Hernández, Pedro José Blaya-Ros, Roque Torres-Sánchez and Rafael Domingo

Agricultural Water Management, 2019, vol. 217, issue C, 243-254

Abstract: The performance of 'Prime Giant' sweet cherry trees under three different irrigation regimes was examined during two consecutive seasons, 2015–2016 and 2016–2017. The irrigation treatments evaluated were: (i) a control treatment (CTL) irrigated at 110% of crop evapotranspiration (ETcd) to maintain non-limiting soil water conditions, (ii) RDM a regulated deficit irrigation treatment which applied a mild water stress during preharvest (90% of ETcd.) and a medium stress during postharvest (65% of ETcd) and (iii) RDS a regulated deficit irrigation treatment which applied a severe water stress (55% of ETcd.) during postharvest.

Keywords: Fruit and stem water potential; Fruit growth pattern; Osmotic fruit water potential; Pedicel; Postharvest fruit quality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1016/j.agwat.2019.02.028

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