Abstract
To study the effect of plant density (2.5, 3 ,3.5 plant. m-2 ) and shoot pruning (no pruning, plant with 3 main stems) on fruit quality characteristics of two sweet pepper cultivars “Tomson” and “Maratos”, a factorial experiment was done in randomized complete block design with 3 replication in greenhouse. The results showed that pruning had significant effect on fruit weight, fruit length, fruit diameter, fruit pericarp thickness and vitamin C. Plant density also had a significant effect on fruit weight. The fruit weight decreased as the plant density increased and was highest in 2.5 plants per m-2 density. In this expriment pruning increased fruit weight, fruit length, fruit diameter, fruit pericarp thickness, and vitamin C and fruit quality was higher in pruning treatment than in no pruning tretment. pH and total soluble solids were not affected by shoot pruning and plant density. Harvest date had a significant effect on vitamin C, total soluble solid, pH. Vitamin C and total soluble solid were the highest in the third harvest.
Keywords: Capsicum annum, Pruning, Density, Fruit quality, Vitamin C
Seifi, S., Nemati, S., Shour, M., & Abedi, B. (2011). Effect of Plant Density and Shoot Pruning on Fruit Quality Characteristics of two Cultivars of Sweet Pepper. Journal Of Horticultural Science, 25(2), -. doi: 10.22067/jhorts4.v1390i0.9990
MLA
S. Seifi; S.H. Nemati; Mahmoud Shour; B. Abedi. "Effect of Plant Density and Shoot Pruning on Fruit Quality Characteristics of two Cultivars of Sweet Pepper". Journal Of Horticultural Science, 25, 2, 2011, -. doi: 10.22067/jhorts4.v1390i0.9990
HARVARD
Seifi, S., Nemati, S., Shour, M., Abedi, B. (2011). 'Effect of Plant Density and Shoot Pruning on Fruit Quality Characteristics of two Cultivars of Sweet Pepper', Journal Of Horticultural Science, 25(2), pp. -. doi: 10.22067/jhorts4.v1390i0.9990
VANCOUVER
Seifi, S., Nemati, S., Shour, M., Abedi, B. Effect of Plant Density and Shoot Pruning on Fruit Quality Characteristics of two Cultivars of Sweet Pepper. Journal Of Horticultural Science, 2011; 25(2): -. doi: 10.22067/jhorts4.v1390i0.9990
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