Claim · model-written summary
Under deficit irrigation (33 and 66% of ETc), leaf water potentials and maximum stomatal conductance did not differ markedly from fully irrigated olive plants.
- Taxon
- OLIVE
Olea europaeat0 - Treatment
- deficit irrigation treatments (33 and 66% of ETc)e1
- Outcome
- Leaf water potentials and maximum stomatal conductancee1
- Direction
- did not differ markedlye1
- Comparator
- fully irrigated plantse1
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Verbatim
t0“TWO OLIVE CVS.”
e1“Leaf water potentials and maximum stomatal conductance of plants subjected to deficit irrigation treatments (33 and 66% of ETc) did not differ markedly from those of fully irrigated plants”
Title
R. D'Andria; A. Lavini; G. Morelli; et al. Acta Horticulturae 2008. doi:10.17660/actahortic.2008.791.42
Other claims from this paper (6)
- Intervention effect Rain-fed olive plants showed the typical detrimental effect of water stress relative to fully irrigated plants.
- Association At harvest, fruit number and mean fruit weight showed a linear enhancement with irrigation volume.
- Observation Yield differences between irrigation treatments seemed mainly related to fruit mean weight and number.
- Mechanism Water availability may have affected growing conditions before flowering or in the early stages of fruit growth rather than later in the season.
- Intervention effect Irrigation treatments did not affect lipid content and composition, phenolic compounds, or organoleptic characteristics of olive fruit.
- Recommendation Delaying the irrigation start may let growers save water while maintaining olive yield.