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Assessment of Chilling Requirement and Threshold Temperature of a Low Chill Pear (Pyrus communis L.) Germplasm in the Mediterranean Area

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العنوان: Assessment of Chilling Requirement and Threshold Temperature of a Low Chill Pear (Pyrus communis L.) Germplasm in the Mediterranean Area
المؤلفون: Filippo Ferlito, Mario Di Guardo, Maria Allegra, Elisabetta Nicolosi, Alberto Continella, Stefano La Malfa, Alessandra Gentile, Gaetano Distefano
المصدر: Horticulturae, Vol 7, Iss 3, p 45 (2021)
بيانات النشر: MDPI AG, 2021.
سنة النشر: 2021
المجموعة: LCC:Plant culture
مصطلحات موضوعية: global warming, bud break, bud sprouting, chill-day model, dormancy, Plant culture, SB1-1110
الوصف: In temperate climates, bud break and shoot and flower emission of deciduous fruit tree species are regulated by precise chilling and heating requirements. To investigate this aspect, sixty-one accessions of European pear (Pyrus communis L.) collected in Sicily were phenotyped for three consecutive years for harvest date, bud sprouting and blooming to determine both the chilling requirements and the threshold temperature using the Chill Days model. The whole germplasm collection was grown in two different experimental fields located at 10 and 850 m above sea level representing two Mediterranean-type climates in which pear is commonly cultivated. Results revealed a mean threshold temperature of 6.70 and 8.10 °C for the two experimental fields, respectively, with a mean chilling requirement ranging from −103 and −120 days. Through this approach, novel insights were gained on the differences in chilling requirement for early flowering cultivars to overcome dormancy. Furthermore, to better dissect differences in chilling requirement between accessions, the sprouting bud rate of six cultivars was assessed on excised twigs stored at 4 ± 0.1 °C from 300 to 900 h followed by a period at 25 ± 0.1 °C varying from seven to twenty-eight days. Results of both experiments highlighted that Sicilian pear germplasm is characterized by a low chilling requirement compared to other pear germplasm, making Sicilian local accessions valuable candidates to be used for selecting novel cultivars, coupling their low chilling requirements with other traits of agronomical interest.
نوع الوثيقة: article
وصف الملف: electronic resource
اللغة: English
تدمد: 2311-7524
Relation: https://www.mdpi.com/2311-7524/7/3/45; https://doaj.org/toc/2311-7524
DOI: 10.3390/horticulturae7030045
URL الوصول: https://doaj.org/article/b569c409bd034ea6919d95aa1c6aca8e
رقم الانضمام: edsdoj.b569c409bd034ea6919d95aa1c6aca8e
قاعدة البيانات: Directory of Open Access Journals
الوصف
تدمد:23117524
DOI:10.3390/horticulturae7030045