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Javad Erfani-Moghadam

Academic rank: Associate Professor
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Education: PhD.
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Faculty: Agriculture
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Research

Title
Positive effects of foliar application of Ca, B and GA3 on the qualitative and quantitative traits of pomegranate (Punica granatum L.) cv. ‘Malase-Torshe-Saveh’
Type
JournalPaper
Keywords
Pomegranate Foliar spraying GA3 Fruit cracking Calcium Boron
Year
2019
Journal SCIENTIA HORTICULTURAE
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Researchers Mahbob Hosein-beigi ، Abdolkarim Zarei ، mahmood rostaminia ، Javad Erfani-Moghadam

Abstract

Fruit cracking and sunburn are two main disorders that adversely affect pomegranate production in Iran. Proper horticultural practices during growing season can highly affect the fruit quality. In the present study, an experiment was conducted to assess the individual and combined effects of Calcium (Ca) (0, 0.75% and 1.5%), Boron (B) (0 and 3000 ppm) and gibberellic acid (GA3) (0, 75 and 150 ppm) spraying on the fruit of pomegranate cv. ‘Malase-Torshe-Saveh’. The treatments were repeated three times during growing season. A factorial experiment was conducted based on the completely randomized block design with 18 treatments and 3 replicates and data was analyzed with SAS and JMP software. Results indicate that most of the qualitative and quantitative traits were affected by foliar spraying of these substances. The control plants resulted in the inferior fruits attributes and the highest fruit cracking and sunburn was recorded from untreated plants. Although all of the individual treatments, increased physical attributes of