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Effect of soil-moisture regime on plant growth, fruiting, fruit quality and nutrient uptake of mango (Mangifera indica)

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Title Effect of soil-moisture regime on plant growth, fruiting, fruit quality and nutrient uptake of mango (Mangifera indica)
 
Creator SINGH, RANBIR
CHANDEL, J S
BHANDARI, A R
 
Subject soil-moisture regimes, irrigation, water requirement, yield, leaf nutrient, mango fruit quality
 
Description A field experiment was conducted during 1990-.92 to study the effect of soil-moisture regimes on plant growth,fruiting, fiuit quality and mineral composition and to work out the irrigation water requirement for bearing mango (Mangiferaindica L.) trees. Plant height, shoot growth, fruit retention, fruit quality, yield and leaf nutrient status were fOund significantlyhigher in trees irrigated at 20 and 40% depletion of available soil-moisture than those irrigated at 60% depletion ofavailable soil-moisture and unirrigated control. There was 87 and 79% increase in yield when irrigation was applied at 20and 40% depletion of available soil-moisture, respectively compared with the unirrigated control. Though the plantgrowth, yield and fruit quality were slightly better in trees irrigated at 20% depletion of available soil-moisture than thoseirrigated at 40% depletion of available soil-moisture but there was 8.07% saving of water in 40% irrigation treatmentwithout any adverse effect on tree growth, yield and fruit quality as observed in trees irrigated at 60% depletion ofavailable soil-moisture and unirrigated control. Trees required 21-23 irrigations amounting to 125.4 cm of irrigationwater/year at 40% available soil-moisture depletion level.
 
Publisher The Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences
 
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Date 2013-02-13
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://epubs.icar.org.in/ejournal/index.php/IJAgS/article/view/27339
 
Source The Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences; Vol 68, No 3 (1998)
0019-5022
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://epubs.icar.org.in/ejournal/index.php/IJAgS/article/view/27339/12443
 
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