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Drought in Deciduous Fruit Trees: Implications for Yield and Fruit Quality

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In many production areas of the world deciduous fruit trees require irrigation to maximize yield and optimize fruit quality. Drought could therefore have a negative impact on fruit production. This chapter addresses yield and fruit quality responses of deciduous fruits (DF) to drought. The chapter has emphasis on the most important deciduous fruit trees and includes apple, apricot, cherry, peach, pear, and plum. Confronted with a period of drought, fruit growers’ success will depend on their ability to modify cultural practices. We evaluated various strategies at different levels of water shortage. We expected that this chapter will introduce enough information to understand the effects of drought in deciduous fruit tree orchards and facilitate fruit marketability under water shortage.

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Abbreviations

CI:

Conventional irrigation, commercial irrigation

DF:

Deciduous fruits

DI:

Deficit irrigation

ETc:

Crop evapotranspiration

FF:

Fruit firmness

IEC:

Internal ethylene concentration

NI:

No irrigation

RDI:

Regulated deficit irrigation

RDM:

Relative dry matter

SPI:

Starch pattern index

SSC:

Soluble solids concentration

SSP:

Severe summer pruning

SWP:

Stem water potential

TA:

Titratable acidity

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This work was supported by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (MICINN) projects CSD2006-00067 of CONSOLIDER-INGENIO 2010 and AGL2009-10237.

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Lopez, G., Hossein Behboudian, M., Girona, J., Marsal, J. (2012). Drought in Deciduous Fruit Trees: Implications for Yield and Fruit Quality. In: Aroca, R. (eds) Plant Responses to Drought Stress. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32653-0_17

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