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Pomegranate Cultivation in Mediterranean Climate: Plant Adaptation and Fruit Quality of ‘Mollar de Elche’ and ‘Wonderful’ Cultivars

Ilenia TinebraGiuseppe SortinoDario ScuderiVittorio FarinaAgata Mazzaglia

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0106 biological sciencesMediterranean climateCrop phenologyBiology01 natural sciencesSensory analysislcsh:Agriculturepomegranate0404 agricultural biotechnologyArilRelative growth rateCultivarMollar de ElchePunica granatumPhenologyfruit qualitylcsh:S04 agricultural and veterinary sciencescrop phenology040401 food scienceSettore AGR/03 - Arboricoltura Generale E Coltivazioni ArboreeHorticulture<i>Punica granatum</i>OrchardAgronomy and Crop Science010606 plant biology & botany

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Two pomegranate cultivars, Mollar de Elche, native to Spain, and Wonderful, the most widely cultivated pomegranate variety in the world, were studied in a commercial orchard in Sicily, and their phenological behavior was compared. During the development of the fruit, their dimensional growth was monitored, and after harvest, physicochemical and sensory analyses were carried out to highlight the differences between fruit of the two cultivars. Results showed that Mollar de Elche fruit require less time from flowering to fruit maturity, resulting in an earlier harvest, which was due also to a higher relative growth rate of the fruit&rsquo

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
2021-01-15Agronomy
https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy11010156