Studies of Different Citrus Rootstocks on Growth, Yield and Fruit Quality of Valencia Orange

Abstract

The present study was carried out during seasons of 2012 and 2013, to evaluate Valencia orange (C. Sinensis L. Osbeck) trees budded on four citrus rootstocks , i.e. Cleopatra mandarin, Sour orange' Rangpur lime and Volkamer lemon. The experimental trees were grown in a newly reclaimed sandy soil at the orchard of EL-Kassasin Horticulture Research Station, Ismailia Governorate Egypt. The considered parameters were mostly of significant responses among Valencia orange cv. and the four studied rootstocks. This study presented that the superiority of Volkamer lemon rootstock for Valencia orange trees, as compared with the other tested rootstocks. On the contrary, Rangpur lime rootstock seemed to be the worst one for Valencia orange trees under the experimental conditions.

Evaluation of Some New Navel Orange Cultivars Budded on Sour Orange and Volkamer Lemon Rootstocks

“…The obtained data are in harmony with those reported by Ibrahim et al (2004), Shafieizargar et al 2012and Barakat et al (2013) on Navel and Valencia oranges cultivars. They reported that VL rootstock induced higher values of fruit weight and yield as compared with SO rootstock.…”

“…In this respect, Zayan et al 2004on Valencia orange and Shafieizargar et al (2012) on 'Queen' orange pointed out that, trees grafted on VL produced the largest fruits as compared with SO. Also, Ibrahim et al (2004) reported that the significant highest values of peel thickness were obtained by Volkamer lemon whereas sour orange gave lowest values of peel thickness.…”