Effects of Ba and Naa on Thinning and Fruit Quality of Apple Cultivars 'Golden Delicious' and 'Red Delicious'

Gala apple (Malus domestica Borkh.) trees are prone to heavy cropping but respond to chemical fruitlet thinners to reduce crop load and improve fruit quality. Environmental concerns over the fate of the chemical fruitlet thinner carbaryl is widely acknowledged, but crop load management options are limited. In southern Ontario, Gala trees were treated with new thinning compounds or combinations to determine post-bloom thinning efficacy and resulting fruit quality. Treatments included 6-benzyladenine (6-BA) combined with naphthaleneacetic acid (NAA) or abscisic acid (ABA), and 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid (ACC) alone applied at 9 mm in 2014 and 17 mm in 2015. The treatment NAA + 6-BA produced unacceptably small “pygmy” fruit when applied at 17 mm fruitlet diameter. ABA at 150 and 300 mg L−1 and ACC at 150 mg L−1, when applied at 17 mm fruitlet diameter, resulted in acceptable fruit set, crop load, and quality results in comparison with the carbaryl thinner in 1 yr. The bioregulators ACC and ABA combined with 6-BA showed commercial potential for thinning Gala fruit but require further evaluation.

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Pre-harvest Factors Influencing the Postharvest Quality of Fruits: A Review

Tyagi

Sahay

Imran

et al. 2017

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Effects of Ba and Naa on Thinning and Fruit Quality of Apple Cultivars 'Golden Delicious' and 'Red Delicious'

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Review on crop load management in apple (Malus x domestica Borkh.)

Review on crop load management in apple (Malus x domestica Borkh.)

Effects of the bioregulators ACC, 6-BA, ABA, and NAA as thinning agents on Gala apples

Pre-harvest Factors Influencing the Postharvest Quality of Fruits: A Review

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