Abstract
The irrigation patterns in two peach orchards, located in the central eastern region of Portugal, called “Beira Interior”, and the effect of different amounts of irrigation on the total production and fruit quality were evaluated. The experiment was conducted in 2016, in two different orchards, and included three treatments correspondent to three different flow rates per tree: 8, 12 and 16 l/hour. The water balance, which included the water supplied by rain and irrigation and the crop evapotranspiration, was developed. At harvest, crop production, pulp firmness and percentage of the total soluble solids were evaluated. There were no significant differences between treatments in the average production per tree. However, in one of the orchards production increased with the volume of irrigation. In the same orchard, fruit firmness decreased with the increasing water supply. Total soluble solids had decreased with the increasing water supply in both orchards, probably as a consequence of the dilution effect due, directly, to the water incorporated in the fruits, or, indirectly, to the larger fruits produced by the trees that were irrigated more. In general, the treatments used in this study as well as in the farmers’ practices, the supplied water was in deficit, but the farmers tend empirically to follow closely the evolution of evapotranspiration. Keywords: Deficit irrigation, Peach tree, Production, Total soluble solids, Fruit firmness
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Claim · model-written summary
Different amounts of irrigation did not significantly change average production per peach tree.
- Taxon
- peach
Prunus persicat0 - Treatment
- different amounts of irrigatione0
- Outcome
- average production per treee1
- Direction
- no significant differencese1
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t0“Deficit Irrigation in Peach Orchards”
e0“the effect of different amounts of irrigation on the total production and fruit quality were evaluated”
e1“There were no significant differences between treatments in the average production per tree”
Claim · model-written summary
In one orchard, peach production increased with the volume of irrigation.
- Taxon
- peachPrunus persicat0
- Treatment
- volume of irrigatione2
- Outcome
- productione2
- Direction
- increasede2
- Qualifier
- in one of the orchardse2
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t0“Deficit Irrigation in Peach Orchards”
e2“However, in one of the orchards production increased with the volume of irrigation”
Claim · model-written summary
In the same orchard, peach fruit firmness decreased with increasing water supply.
- Taxon
- peachPrunus persicat0
- Treatment
- increasing water supplye3
- Outcome
- fruit firmnesse3
- Direction
- decreasede3
- Qualifier
- In the same orcharde3
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t0“Deficit Irrigation in Peach Orchards”
e3“In the same orchard, fruit firmness decreased with the increasing water supply”
Claim · model-written summary
Total soluble solids of peach decreased with increasing water supply in both orchards.
- Taxon
- peachPrunus persicat0
- Treatment
- increasing water supplye4
- Outcome
- Total soluble solidse4
- Direction
- decreasede4
- Qualifier
- in both orchardse4
Not reportedComparator
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Verbatim
t0“Deficit Irrigation in Peach Orchards”
e4“Total soluble solids had decreased with the increasing water supply in both orchards”
Claim · model-written summary
The supplied water was in deficit in the study treatments and in farmers practices.
- Taxon
- peachPrunus persicat0
- Outcome
- supplied watere5
- Qualifier
- in deficite5
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t0“Deficit Irrigation in Peach Orchards”
e5“the supplied water was in deficit”
Claim · model-written summary
Farmers tend empirically to follow closely the evolution of evapotranspiration when they irrigate peach orchards.
- Taxon
- peachPrunus persicat0
- Outcome
- follow closely the evolution of evapotranspiratione6
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t0“Deficit Irrigation in Peach Orchards”
e6“the farmers tend empirically to follow closely the evolution of evapotranspiration”
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