More leaves, more fruits, is it so simple? Insights into a scale-dependent relationship

Normand Frédéric, Capelli Mathilde, Lauri Pierre-Eric. 2017. More leaves, more fruits, is it so simple? Insights into a scale-dependent relationship. In : Book of abstracts. Sustainable mango industry and poverty alleviation. Xinhua He (ed.), Li Li (ed.), Ping Lu (ed.), Xiaoying Jia (ed.). ISHS. Baise : ISHS, Résumé, p. 51. International Mango Symposium. 12, Baise, Chine, 10 Juillet 2017/16 Juillet 2017.

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Résumé : Mango flowering is borne by vegetative growth which develops mainly after the previous harvest. This temporal and topological continuity in the mango development suggests that vegetative growth may affect flowering, fruiting and consequently yield. Relationships have been evidenced between the characteristics of a terminal growth unit and its probability of flowering and fruiting, but studies are lacking on the effects of vegetative growth as a whole. The objective ' of this study was to investigate the relationships between vegetative growth developed during a growing cycle and the subsequent fruit production at three spatial scales: the terminal growth unit of the previous cycle, the scaffold branch and the tree. Data were collected during two growing cycles on three young trees of four cultivars, namely Cogsha ll, José, Kensington Pride and Irwin. For each growing cycle, vegetative growth was characterized by leaf area and number of terminal growth units of each news hoot developed during the season of vegetative growth. Fruit production was characterized by the number of fruits borne by these shoots. For both cycles and all cultivars, the n umber of fruits borne by a shoot was positively and linearly related to the leaf area and the number of terminal growth units of this shoot. At the scaffold branch and at the tree scales, the number of fruits was not always positively related to vegetative growth when fruit production and vegetative growth were normalized by scaffold branch or tree size. These results suggested partial branch autonomy with respect to flowering and fruiting mechanisms. Post-harvest vegetative growth is important to ensure fruit production, and consequences for tree management are discussed.

Mots-clés libres : Branch autonomy, Fruit production, Growth unit, Leaf area, Mangifera indica L.

Classification Agris : F62 - Physiologie végétale - Croissance et développement
F63 - Physiologie végétale - Reproduction

Auteurs et affiliations

• Normand Frédéric, CIRAD-PERSYST-UPR HortSys (REU)
• Capelli Mathilde, CIRAD-PERSYST-UPR HortSys (REU)
• Lauri Pierre-Eric, INRA (FRA)

Source : Cirad-Agritrop (https://agritrop.cirad.fr/584939/)

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