The influence of the waterlogging in the death of peach and plum trees

Authors

  • Lauri José Guerra
  • Nelson Luiz Finard
  • Benedito Gomes dos Santos Filho "Universidade Federal Rural da Amazônia, Ministério de Educação, Coordenadoria de Pós Graduação.
  • José Antônio Peters

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1590/S1678-3921.pab1992.v27.3674

Keywords:

<i>Prunus persica</i>, <i>Prunus salicina</i>, dormancy, development of trees, waterlogging, lenticels, adventitious roots

Abstract

A series of experiments were run to study the effects of flooding on potted peach and plum seedlings of the two local peach (Prunus persica, Batsch.) cultivars Capdeboscq and Magno and of the plum (Prunus salicina, Lindl.) cultivars Santa Rosa and Harry Pickstone, to test about their sensitivity to flooding. Vegetating plants were more sensitive than dormant plants. Peach trees were more sensitive than plum trees. It was observed that the plants that had higher tolerance to flooding emitted higher number of adventitious roots and had more severe hypertrophy of the submerged lenticels. Also peach plantlets, when waterlogged for 86 days, showed this relation between lenticels hypertrophy and flood tolerance.

Published

1992-03-01

How to Cite

Guerra, L. J., Finard, N. L., Filho, B. G. dos S., & Peters, J. A. (1992). The influence of the waterlogging in the death of peach and plum trees. Pesquisa Agropecuaria Brasileira, 27(3), 499–508. https://doi.org/10.1590/S1678-3921.pab1992.v27.3674

Issue

Section

POMOLOGY