Evaluation of frost tolerance and the effect of anti-freezing products in some genotypes of plum and prune trees (Prunus spp)
Subject Areas : TensionMoheddin Pirkhezri 1 , Amir Abbas Taghizadeh 2
1 - Temperate and Cold Fruits Research Institute, Horticultural Science Research Institute, Agricultural Education and Extension Research Organization, Tehran, Iran
2 - 2Researcher, Temperate Fruits Research Center, Horticultural Science Research Institute, Agricultural Research Education and Extension Organization (AREEO), Tehran, Iran
Keywords: Plum, prunes, anti-freezing products, spring frost,
Abstract :
Plum and Prunes are one of the most important stone fruits produced in Iran and for many years, a great part of this product is lost due to late spring frost. The present research was performed to investigate the effect of some anti-freeze products in two independent experiments in laboratory and garden conditions in some commercial genotype of Plum and Prunes. A factorial experiment (23 genotypes and five anti-freezing treatments) was conducted based on complete randomized block design. In this study, frost condition was simulated for 24 h in phytotron and buds were treated for four hours at -3°C. Results of principal component and cluster analysis corroborated that eight genotypes (namely, code 73, alu tokhmehmorghi, santarosa, songor abadi, soosari, shablon shariar, ablenaya and black star) possessed the highest values related to fruit traits, fruit set, spour and flower density under frost stress and six genotypes (namely, bokhara abghoshti, code17, rin clud, gojeh baghi, tabestaneh ghasrdasht, gojeh zardalu ghasrdasht) retained the highest healthy flowers and pistils, being as the most cold tolerant genotypes. Moreover, multivariate analysis introduced Pestaford as the best anti-freezing product yielding the highest values for fruit weight, length, width, diameter, total soluble solids, healthy pistil and healthy flowers under frost condition and after that, Crop Aid and Guard antifreezes worked better. Correlation analysis showed
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