Growth patterns analysis of pomegranate fruits of 'Mollar de Elche' during the final phase of development and maturation

Physical properties of fruit such as weight, volume and aril size are important from a marketing viewpoint in pomegranate (Punica granatum L.). The fruit growth measurement and analysis is important for yield prediction and development of optimal maturity indices in fruit crops. In this sense, studi...

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Autores principales: García-González, J. F., Intrigliolo, Diego S., Parra, J., Guerra, Diego, Ortiz, M., Bartual, Julián
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author García-González, J. F.
Intrigliolo, Diego S.
Parra, J.
Guerra, Diego
Ortiz, M.
Bartual, Julián
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García-González, J. F.
Guerra, Diego
Intrigliolo, Diego S.
Ortiz, M.
Parra, J.
author_facet Bartual, Julián
García-González, J. F.
Intrigliolo, Diego S.
Parra, J.
Guerra, Diego
Ortiz, M.
Bartual, Julián
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description Physical properties of fruit such as weight, volume and aril size are important from a marketing viewpoint in pomegranate (Punica granatum L.). The fruit growth measurement and analysis is important for yield prediction and development of optimal maturity indices in fruit crops. In this sense, studies on fruit growth are generally based on the measurements of fruit diameter and fresh weight in deciduous fruit crops destined for the fresh market. The objective of this work was to analyze the growth of 'Mollar de Elche' pomegranate fruit as a function of growing degree days. The present study was carried out under the agro-ecological conditions of Elche (Alicante, Spain) Determinations were carried out during the late stages of fruit development and maturation (i.e., August 10th (at 92 days after full bloom (DAFB)) to October 26th (169 DAFB)). Twenty fruits samples were taken weekly for morphological characterization; including diameter, height (excluding calyx), fresh and dry weight (drying at 60°C to a constant weight) and weight fresh of arils were measured. A regression analysis was done to obtain the growth models. During this period of growing, fruit diameter increased from 78 to 95 mm and fruit length from 67 to 82 mm. High correlations in fruit diameter (r2=0.94), height (r2=0.90) and fresh weight (r2=0.94) was obtained in linear regression analysis. Moisture content of fruit varied significantly from 74 to 78% at last fruit maturity stage. The fruit continued to grow even after the optimum harvesting stage, between 146 and 160 DAFB, following the characteristic sigmoid shape in transversal and polar diameter and weight. Therefore, these curves could facilitate the prediction of fruit size and determine the optimum time of harvesting, the temporal identification of critical stages, and may aid in the optimization of crop management. In addition, relative growth rates could be useful to correlate the diameter percentage obtained with the phenological code in BBCH scale.
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spelling ReDivia69942025-04-25T14:52:37Z Growth patterns analysis of pomegranate fruits of 'Mollar de Elche' during the final phase of development and maturation García-González, J. F. Intrigliolo, Diego S. Parra, J. Guerra, Diego Ortiz, M. Bartual, Julián Bartual, Julián Fruit size Correlations Harvesting point F62 Plant physiology - Growth and development Punica granatum Weight Physical properties of fruit such as weight, volume and aril size are important from a marketing viewpoint in pomegranate (Punica granatum L.). The fruit growth measurement and analysis is important for yield prediction and development of optimal maturity indices in fruit crops. In this sense, studies on fruit growth are generally based on the measurements of fruit diameter and fresh weight in deciduous fruit crops destined for the fresh market. The objective of this work was to analyze the growth of 'Mollar de Elche' pomegranate fruit as a function of growing degree days. The present study was carried out under the agro-ecological conditions of Elche (Alicante, Spain) Determinations were carried out during the late stages of fruit development and maturation (i.e., August 10th (at 92 days after full bloom (DAFB)) to October 26th (169 DAFB)). Twenty fruits samples were taken weekly for morphological characterization; including diameter, height (excluding calyx), fresh and dry weight (drying at 60°C to a constant weight) and weight fresh of arils were measured. A regression analysis was done to obtain the growth models. During this period of growing, fruit diameter increased from 78 to 95 mm and fruit length from 67 to 82 mm. High correlations in fruit diameter (r2=0.94), height (r2=0.90) and fresh weight (r2=0.94) was obtained in linear regression analysis. Moisture content of fruit varied significantly from 74 to 78% at last fruit maturity stage. The fruit continued to grow even after the optimum harvesting stage, between 146 and 160 DAFB, following the characteristic sigmoid shape in transversal and polar diameter and weight. Therefore, these curves could facilitate the prediction of fruit size and determine the optimum time of harvesting, the temporal identification of critical stages, and may aid in the optimization of crop management. In addition, relative growth rates could be useful to correlate the diameter percentage obtained with the phenological code in BBCH scale. 2021-01-19T09:16:14Z 2021-01-19T09:16:14Z 2019 conferenceObject García-González, J. F., Intrigliolo, D. S., Parra, J., Guerra, D., Ortiz, M. & Bartual, J. (2019). Growth patterns analysis of pomegranate fruits of 'Mollar de Elche' during the final phase of development and maturation. Acta Hortic. 1254, 143-148 978-94-62612-51-8 0567-7572 (print) 2406-6168 (electronic) http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11939/6994 10.17660/ActaHortic.2019.1254.22 https://www.actahort.org/books/1254/1254_22.htm en IV International Symposium on Pomegranate and Minor Mediterranean Fruits Elche, Spain Atribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 3.0 España http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/ closedAccess ISHS electronico
spellingShingle Fruit size
Correlations
Harvesting point
F62 Plant physiology - Growth and development
Punica granatum
Weight
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Intrigliolo, Diego S.
Parra, J.
Guerra, Diego
Ortiz, M.
Bartual, Julián
Growth patterns analysis of pomegranate fruits of 'Mollar de Elche' during the final phase of development and maturation
title Growth patterns analysis of pomegranate fruits of 'Mollar de Elche' during the final phase of development and maturation
title_full Growth patterns analysis of pomegranate fruits of 'Mollar de Elche' during the final phase of development and maturation
title_fullStr Growth patterns analysis of pomegranate fruits of 'Mollar de Elche' during the final phase of development and maturation
title_full_unstemmed Growth patterns analysis of pomegranate fruits of 'Mollar de Elche' during the final phase of development and maturation
title_short Growth patterns analysis of pomegranate fruits of 'Mollar de Elche' during the final phase of development and maturation
title_sort growth patterns analysis of pomegranate fruits of mollar de elche during the final phase of development and maturation
topic Fruit size
Correlations
Harvesting point
F62 Plant physiology - Growth and development
Punica granatum
Weight
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