TY - JOUR 
A1 - Romero Trigueros, Cristina
AU - Parra Gómez, Margarita
AU - Bayona Gambín, José María
AU - Nortes Tortosa, Pedro Antonio
AU - Alarcón Cabañero, Juan José
AU - Nicolás Nicolás, Emilio
T1 - Effect of deficit irrigation and reclaimed water on yield and quality of grapefruits at harvest and postharvest
Y1 - 2017
SN - 0023-6438
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10317/6812
AB - The aim of our research was to discover the effects of the long-term irrigation with saline reclaimed (RW) and transfer (TW) water and different irrigation strategies: control (C) and regulated deficit irrigation (RDI) on yield and fruit quality of grapefruit at harvest and during cold storage. T W-RDI treatment decreased tree canopy (TC) and crop load, resulting in a 21% reduction of fruit yield. Regarding fruit quality, RW notably decreased peel thickness at harvest (about 8%); however, this difference was not remained during cold storage. Sugar/acid ratio was mainly increased by RDI, but also by RW, due to an important increase in soluble solid content (11% of average value for TW-RDI, RW-C and RW-RDI). In addition, RDI combined with RW, significantly increased the number of fruits in small category 5 at the end of cold storage. Finally, neither ratio yield/TC nor irrigation water productivity were affected by any irrigation treatments.
KW - Citrus
KW - Cold storage
KW - Crop load
KW - Soluble solid content
KW - Yield
KW - 3102.05 Riego
LA - eng
PB - Elsevier Science
ER -