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- Title
Summer Pruning, an Eco-Friendly Approach to Controlling Bitter Pit and Preserving Sensory Quality in Highly Vigorous Apple cv. 'Reinette du Canada'.
- Authors
Guerra, Marcos; Sanz, Miguel Ángel; Rodríguez-González, Álvaro; Casquero, Pedro Antonio
- Abstract
Summer pruning reduces vegetative growth in apple trees, but it could have an impact on fruit quality. This study analyzed the effects of summer pruning as an eco-friendly pre-harvest alternative to chemical growth regulation inputs on instrumental and sensory quality of highly vigorous apple cv. 'Reinette du Canada', which has been awarded with a Protected Designation of Origin label in two environments. The results showed that summer pruning affected the mineral content of the fruit. Summer pruning reduced bitter pit, but it did not negatively affect fruit weight nor any other instrumental characteristic during storage. Moreover, sensory quality or degree of liking were not affected by summer pruning. Thus, summer pruning could be an eco-friendly pre-harvest alternative to chemical treatments to improve quality in global terms of 'Reinette du Canada' apple cultivar, regardless of the location. This technique contributed to the decrease of bitter pit incidence, but did not decrease sensory quality nor degree of liking.
- Subjects
SUMMER; FRUIT quality; REGULATION of growth; TREE growth
- Publication
Agriculture; Basel, 2021, Vol 11, Issue 11, p1081
- ISSN
2077-0472
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/agriculture11111081