Abstract
“Maycrest” peach trees (Prunus persica L. Batsch) grafted on four different rootstocks were established in a calcareous soil with high content in total (mean 34%) and low in active (mean 6%) CaCO3. It was found that the highest degree of iron chlorosis appeared on the peach seedling rootstock ID 20, followed by the almond × peach hybrid I × Ne 2, which influenced negatively the mean fruit weight. Tree growth and fruit yield per tree were higher on almond × peach hybrid rootstocks GF 677 and Adafuel compared with I × Ne 2 and ID 20, although yield efficiency was not affected.
Important differences were found for leaf and bark Ca, Mg and B content, bark and wood Fe content as well as for bark K content among the four rootstocks studied.
Iron chlorosis was significantly correlated with: Fruit yield (r = -0,568**), tree growth (r = -0.507*), bark K(r = 0,610***), bark Fe (r = 0, 544**), bark P/Fe ratio (r = -0,495*), bark K/Ca ratio (r = 0, 604***) and wood K/Ca ratio (r = 0,607***). Fruit yield was highly correlated with tree growth (r = 0, 839***).
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Almaliotis, D.D., Manganaris, A.G., Simonis, A.D., Bladenopoulou, S.B. (1995). Rootstock effect on yield and mineral nutrition of “Maycrest” peach trees under conditions of lime-induced chlorosis. In: Abadía, J. (eds) Iron Nutrition in Soils and Plants. Developments in Plant and Soil Sciences, vol 59. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0503-3_43
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