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Rootstocks are an essential component in modern fruit production due to their ability to adapt scion cultivars to diverse environmental conditions and cultural practices. According to the present study, the effect of rootstock as well as the effect of cultivar and the rootstock/cultivar combination on mineral concentrations in flowers and leaves were significant. However, the effect of rootstock for nutrient composition of fruits (at harvest time and after 3 months of cold storage at 0 °C), with the exception of K‑fruit (at harvest time and after 3 months of cold storage at 0 °C), was not significant. There were positive correlations between the cultivar/hawthorn combination on the one hand, and flower-Fe, leaf-Zn, and leaf‑B on the other, while negative correlations were found between fruit‑B with flower‑B and between fruit Zn with flower Zn. There was a steady yet genotype-dependent decrease in fruit‑N and fruit‑K content over storage time in all genotypes or cultivar/rootstock combinations tested. The trend in terms of changes for all other mineral nutrition in fruits, at harvest time and 3 months after cold storage, differed between genotypes. This study suggests that the higher mineral nutrient uptake in the studied cultivars or genotypes favored by hawthorn (Crataegus spp.) rootstocks makes them suitable for heavy and calcareous soils.
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These results were obtained with the support of project 0‑72-33-065-970850 funded by the Ministry of Agriculture and Horticultural Science Research Institute (HSRI), Temperate and Cold Fruit Research Center, Karaj, Iran.
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Mirabdulbaghi, M., Akbari, H., Abdollahi, H. et al. Hawthorn Rootstock (Crataegus spp.) Affects Scion Nutrition and Nutrient Composition of Fruit of Some Selected Quince (Cydonia oblonga Mill.) Genotypes. Erwerbs-Obstbau 65, 729–743 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10341-022-00685-8
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