Abstract
The effects of deficit irrigation and reflective mulch were studied as possible means to reduce irrigation water use and improve peach fruit quality and storage ability. 'Royal Glory' peach and 'Caldesi 2000' nectarine trees were drip irrigated close to ETc (control) or with 50% of ETc (deficit) during the last three weeks before anticipated harvest of tree-ripe fruit. Reflective Extenday® mulch was also applied on the tree row for almost a month before anticipated harvest at control or deficit irrigated trees. Fruit quality from the upper and lower parts of the tree was evaluated at harvest and after 2, 4 and 6 weeks at 2°C plus 1 day shelf life. Fruit quality included skin color, flesh firmness, specific conductivity and dry matter (DM), juice soluble solids content (SSC), acidity and total phenols (TP) and subjective evaluation of chilling injury (CI) symptoms (flesh leatheriness and browning). With storage time and in both cultivars, fruit skin only slightly changed, fruit flesh softened, specific conductivity, SSC, acidity and DM decreased and TP content and CI (mainly leatheriness) increased. With deficit irrigation or reflective mulch, the two cultivars behaved differently. Nectarines from deficit irrigated trees had improved quality but lower storage ability than fruit from control trees. Peaches from deficit irrigated trees had similar quality to control fruit except of higher SSC (mainly the fruit from the lower part of the canopy) and slightly higher CI. Nectarines from reflective mulched trees had better skin color, harder flesh, higher acidity and DM, similar SSC and TP and higher leatheriness incidence than fruit from control trees. Peaches from reflective mulched trees had the most advanced maturity fruit at harvest compared to the other treatments, and higher quality fruit but also lower storage ability than control fruit. In short, fruit quality of both cultivars studied was improved due to deficit irrigation or reflective mulching but their storage ability was reduced from these treatments.
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Claim · model-written summary
Storage softened fruit flesh in both cultivars.
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e0“With storage time and in both cultivars, fruit skin only slightly changed, fruit flesh softened, specific conductivity, SSC, acidity and DM decreased and TP content and CI (mainly leatheriness) increased.”
t0“PEACH AND NECTARINE”
Claim · model-written summary
With storage, specific conductivity, SSC and acidity decreased in both cultivars.
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e0“specific conductivity, SSC, acidity and DM decreased”
t0“PEACH AND NECTARINE”
Claim · model-written summary
With storage, dry matter decreased in both cultivars.
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e0“specific conductivity, SSC, acidity and DM decreased”
t0“PEACH AND NECTARINE”
Claim · model-written summary
With storage, total phenols and chilling injury increased in both cultivars.
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e0“TP content and CI (mainly leatheriness) increased.”
t0“PEACH AND NECTARINE”
Claim · model-written summary
Deficit irrigation improved nectarine quality but reduced storage ability.
- Taxon
- Nectarines
Prunus persica var. nucipersicae0 - Treatment
- deficit irrigatede0
- Outcome
- qualitye0
- Direction
- improvede0
- Comparator
- control treese0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Nectarines from deficit irrigated trees had improved quality but lower storage ability than fruit from control trees.”
Claim · model-written summary
Deficit irrigation reduced nectarine storage ability.
- Taxon
- NectarinesPrunus persica var. nucipersicae0
- Treatment
- deficit irrigatede0
- Outcome
- storage abilitye0
- Direction
- lowere0
- Comparator
- control treese0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Nectarines from deficit irrigated trees had improved quality but lower storage ability than fruit from control trees.”
Claim · model-written summary
Deficit irrigated peaches had higher SSC, mainly in lower canopy fruit.
- Taxon
- PeachesPrunus persicae0
- Treatment
- deficit irrigatede0
- Outcome
- SSCe0
- Direction
- highere0
- Qualifier
- mainly the fruit from the lower part of the canopye0
- Comparator
- control fruite0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Peaches from deficit irrigated trees had similar quality to control fruit except of higher SSC (mainly the fruit from the lower part of the canopy) and slightly higher CI.”
Claim · model-written summary
Deficit irrigated peaches had slightly higher chilling injury.
- Taxon
- PeachesPrunus persicae0
- Treatment
- deficit irrigatede0
- Outcome
- CIe0
- Direction
- highere0
- Qualifier
- slightly higher CIe0
- Comparator
- control fruite0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Peaches from deficit irrigated trees had similar quality to control fruit except of higher SSC (mainly the fruit from the lower part of the canopy) and slightly higher CI.”
Claim · model-written summary
Reflective mulch improved nectarine skin color and flesh firmness.
- Taxon
- NectarinesPrunus persica var. nucipersicae0
- Treatment
- reflective mulchede0
- Outcome
- skin color, harder fleshe0
- Direction
- bettere0
- Comparator
- control treese0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Nectarines from reflective mulched trees had better skin color, harder flesh, higher acidity and DM, similar SSC and TP and higher leatheriness incidence than fruit from control trees.”
Claim · model-written summary
Reflective mulch increased nectarine acidity and dry matter.
- Taxon
- NectarinesPrunus persica var. nucipersicae0
- Treatment
- reflective mulchede0
- Outcome
- acidity and DMe0
- Direction
- highere0
- Comparator
- control treese0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Nectarines from reflective mulched trees had better skin color, harder flesh, higher acidity and DM, similar SSC and TP and higher leatheriness incidence than fruit from control trees.”
Claim · model-written summary
Reflective mulch left nectarine SSC and TP similar to control.
- Taxon
- NectarinesPrunus persica var. nucipersicae0
- Treatment
- reflective mulchede0
- Outcome
- SSC and TPe0
- Direction
- similare0
- Comparator
- control treese0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Nectarines from reflective mulched trees had better skin color, harder flesh, higher acidity and DM, similar SSC and TP and higher leatheriness incidence than fruit from control trees.”
Claim · model-written summary
Reflective mulch increased nectarine leatheriness incidence.
- Taxon
- NectarinesPrunus persica var. nucipersicae0
- Treatment
- reflective mulchede0
- Outcome
- leatheriness incidencee0
- Direction
- highere0
- Comparator
- control treese0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Nectarines from reflective mulched trees had better skin color, harder flesh, higher acidity and DM, similar SSC and TP and higher leatheriness incidence than fruit from control trees.”
Claim · model-written summary
Reflective mulched peaches were most mature at harvest among treatments.
- Taxon
- PeachesPrunus persicae0
- Treatment
- reflective mulchede0
- Outcome
- maturity fruit at harveste0
- Direction
- most advancede0
- Comparator
- other treatmentse0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Peaches from reflective mulched trees had the most advanced maturity fruit at harvest compared to the other treatments”
Claim · model-written summary
Reflective mulch improved peach quality but reduced storage ability.
- Taxon
- PEACHPrunus persicat0
- Treatment
- REFLECTIVE MULCHt0
- Outcome
- quality fruite0
- Direction
- highere0
- Comparator
- control fruite0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“higher quality fruit but also lower storage ability than control fruit.”
t0“DEFICIT IRRIGATION AND REFLECTIVE MULCH EFFECTS ON PEACH AND NECTARINE FRUIT QUALITY”
Claim · model-written summary
Reflective mulch reduced peach storage ability.
- Taxon
- PEACHPrunus persicat0
- Treatment
- REFLECTIVE MULCHt0
- Outcome
- storage abilitye0
- Direction
- lowere0
- Comparator
- control fruite0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“higher quality fruit but also lower storage ability than control fruit.”
t0“DEFICIT IRRIGATION AND REFLECTIVE MULCH EFFECTS ON PEACH AND NECTARINE FRUIT QUALITY”
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