Effect of tree and branch thinning on growth, yield, and fruit quality of persimmon trees in a high-density orchard
| Autor: | Kyung-Chul Cho, Seok-Kyu Jung, Byeong-Sam Kim, Hyun-Sug Choi, Mengmeng Gu |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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0106 biological sciences
Canopy Biomass (ecology) Thinning food and beverages Diospyros kaki 04 agricultural and veterinary sciences Horticulture Biology 01 natural sciences 040501 horticulture Basal shoot Yield (wine) Shoot Botany Genetics Orchard 0405 other agricultural sciences 010606 plant biology & botany |
| Zdroj: | The Journal of Horticultural Science and Biotechnology. :1-7 |
| ISSN: | 2380-4084 1462-0316 |
| Popis: | A study was conducted to evaluate the effect of branch and tree thinning on growth, yield and fruit quality in 8-year-old non-astringent persimmon (Diospyros kaki L.f.) trees in a high-density orchard over 6 years in Korea. Adjacent trees in the rows were removed in 2008 (first-year thinning) or in 2010 (gradual thinning). Trees in the second treatment also had 25% of the main scaffold branches removed in the first two seasons. Control plots were left unthinned. First-year thinning elevated leaf macro-nutrient concentrations, increased the production of short fruiting shoots (less than 20 cm) per tree, decreased water sprout development and weight of pruned biomass, and increased fruit set compared with values recorded on control trees and with gradual thinning. First-year thinning gave higher photosynthetic photon flux in the centre of the canopy and better fruit quality. There were generally only small differences in total yield across the three treatments in individual years, but much higher to... |
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