Apricot Tree Nutrient Uptake, Fruit Quality and Phytochemical Attributes, and Soil Fertility under Organic and Integrated Management
Organic cultivation management has generated a great deal of interest during the last decades. As there are numerous conflicting results in the literature on the superiority of organic cultivation over an integrated one, a trial occurred using two apricot cultivars, i.e., ‘Bebecou’ and ‘Diamantopoul...
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| author | Peter Anargyrou Roussos Anastasia Karabi Loukas Anastasiou Anna Assimakopoulou Dionisios Gasparatos |
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| description | Organic cultivation management has generated a great deal of interest during the last decades. As there are numerous conflicting results in the literature on the superiority of organic cultivation over an integrated one, a trial occurred using two apricot cultivars, i.e., ‘Bebecou’ and ‘Diamantopoulou’, under integrated and organic cultivation (three orchards per cultivation system and cultivar). The trial occurred during a single cultivation period under different soil but the same climatic conditions. Fruit physiological (weight, diameters, skin color), organoleptic (pH, titratable acidity, and total soluble solids), and phytochemical (phenolic compounds, carbohydrates, organic acids, antioxidant activity, and carotenoids) attributes were assessed, along with plant nutrition, soil fertility status, and a sensory evaluation panel. The two cultivation practices exhibited similar effects in many of the parameters studied in this trial as well as small differences. Fruit weight was higher under organic management in ‘Bebecou’ and under integrated in ‘Diamantopoulou’, while copper was found at a higher concentration in the leaves of organically managed trees of both cultivars. The cultivar was found to have the greatest effects on the measured variables, while within each cultivation management, the farm also had a great impact, indicating that the outcome of specific cultivation practice is influenced by so many factors that it is almost impossible to come to a general conclusion about which practice is the best. Therefore, more research is needed, focused not only on the differences between organic and integrated cultivation management but primarily on the influence of specific cultivation practices within the same management system, to be able to elucidate, to some extent, the effects of individual factors on the measured variables. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-c97d3507405546bd85d53dd87f5ee1312023-11-16T18:58:01ZengMDPI AGApplied Sciences2076-34172023-02-01134259610.3390/app13042596Apricot Tree Nutrient Uptake, Fruit Quality and Phytochemical Attributes, and Soil Fertility under Organic and Integrated ManagementPeter Anargyrou Roussos0Anastasia Karabi1Loukas Anastasiou2Anna Assimakopoulou3Dionisios Gasparatos4Laboratory of Pomology, Department of Crop Science, Agricultural University of Athens, Iera Odos 75, 118 55 Athens, GreeceLaboratory of Pomology, Department of Crop Science, Agricultural University of Athens, Iera Odos 75, 118 55 Athens, GreeceLaboratory of Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry, Department of Natural Recourses Management and Agricultural Engineering, Agricultural University of Athens, Iera Odos 75, 118 55 Athens, GreeceDepartment of Agriculture, University of the Peloponnese, Antikalamos, 24100 Kalamata, GreeceLaboratory of Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry, Department of Natural Recourses Management and Agricultural Engineering, Agricultural University of Athens, Iera Odos 75, 118 55 Athens, GreeceOrganic cultivation management has generated a great deal of interest during the last decades. As there are numerous conflicting results in the literature on the superiority of organic cultivation over an integrated one, a trial occurred using two apricot cultivars, i.e., ‘Bebecou’ and ‘Diamantopoulou’, under integrated and organic cultivation (three orchards per cultivation system and cultivar). The trial occurred during a single cultivation period under different soil but the same climatic conditions. Fruit physiological (weight, diameters, skin color), organoleptic (pH, titratable acidity, and total soluble solids), and phytochemical (phenolic compounds, carbohydrates, organic acids, antioxidant activity, and carotenoids) attributes were assessed, along with plant nutrition, soil fertility status, and a sensory evaluation panel. The two cultivation practices exhibited similar effects in many of the parameters studied in this trial as well as small differences. Fruit weight was higher under organic management in ‘Bebecou’ and under integrated in ‘Diamantopoulou’, while copper was found at a higher concentration in the leaves of organically managed trees of both cultivars. The cultivar was found to have the greatest effects on the measured variables, while within each cultivation management, the farm also had a great impact, indicating that the outcome of specific cultivation practice is influenced by so many factors that it is almost impossible to come to a general conclusion about which practice is the best. Therefore, more research is needed, focused not only on the differences between organic and integrated cultivation management but primarily on the influence of specific cultivation practices within the same management system, to be able to elucidate, to some extent, the effects of individual factors on the measured variables.https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/13/4/2596antioxidant activitycarbohydratescarotenoidsmineral nutrientsphenolic compoundstaste panel |
| spellingShingle | Peter Anargyrou Roussos Anastasia Karabi Loukas Anastasiou Anna Assimakopoulou Dionisios Gasparatos Apricot Tree Nutrient Uptake, Fruit Quality and Phytochemical Attributes, and Soil Fertility under Organic and Integrated Management Applied Sciences antioxidant activity carbohydrates carotenoids mineral nutrients phenolic compounds taste panel |
| title | Apricot Tree Nutrient Uptake, Fruit Quality and Phytochemical Attributes, and Soil Fertility under Organic and Integrated Management |
| title_full | Apricot Tree Nutrient Uptake, Fruit Quality and Phytochemical Attributes, and Soil Fertility under Organic and Integrated Management |
| title_fullStr | Apricot Tree Nutrient Uptake, Fruit Quality and Phytochemical Attributes, and Soil Fertility under Organic and Integrated Management |
| title_full_unstemmed | Apricot Tree Nutrient Uptake, Fruit Quality and Phytochemical Attributes, and Soil Fertility under Organic and Integrated Management |
| title_short | Apricot Tree Nutrient Uptake, Fruit Quality and Phytochemical Attributes, and Soil Fertility under Organic and Integrated Management |
| title_sort | apricot tree nutrient uptake fruit quality and phytochemical attributes and soil fertility under organic and integrated management |
| topic | antioxidant activity carbohydrates carotenoids mineral nutrients phenolic compounds taste panel |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/13/4/2596 |
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