Field applications to enhance coloration and ripening of canino apricots in the presence and absence of anti-ethylene compound

Abstract EN

he present study was conducted during the two successive seasons 2019 and 2020 to determine the effects of pre harvest applications of proton, Ethrel, Lisophos individually or plus Aminoethoxyvinylglycine (AVG) (Proton + AVG, Ethrel + AVG, and Lisophos + AVG) compared with control on the coloration and ripening of six years old Canino apricot (Prunus armeniaca L.

) trees in a private orchard at El-Bostan region, El-Behiara governorate, Egypt.

The obtained results indicated that, The lowest number of leaves drop was recorded with LPE treatment whether alone or when was combined with AVG in consistent manner in both seasons.

In similar manner AVG treatment did not caused any leaves drop in the tagged and treated branches in the two seasons.

Applied Ethrel alone caused greater fruit ission than ProTon.

However the combination of ProTon plus AVG resulted in more fruit ission than that obtained with Ethrel plus AVG in the two seasons of the study.

The highest increase in fresh fruit weight, stone weight and flesh weight were obtained by the application of LPE combined with AVG.

The results indicated that, fruit size was increased significantly under the three treatments ProTon plus AVG or Ethrel plus AVG and LPE plus AVG and the individual treatment of lisophos.

Ethre alone or combined with AVG led to increase in TSS and reduce the electrolyte leakage percentage compared with the control.

Even AVG alone reduced TSS in both seasons.

ProTon treatment increased juice acidity and ascorbic acid.