Vol. 5, Issue 4 (2017)
Effect of soil and foliar application of multi-micronutrients on fruit quality, shelf life of fruits and nutrient content of leaf of mango (Mangifera indica L.) rav. Amrapali
Author(s): Sumit Singh, NS Parekh and Pradeep Kumar Vishwakarma
Abstract:
The present investigation was carried out at Horticultural Research Farm, Department of Horticulture, BACA, AAU, Anand during the year 2014-15 to study the “Effect of soil and foliar application of multi-micronutrients on fruit quality, shelf life of fruits and nutrient content of leaf of mango (Mangifera indica L.) rav. Amrapaliâ€. The experiment was laid out in Randomized Block Design with factorial concept with three levels of soil application viz., S1 (control), S2 (200 g/tree multi-micronutrient Grade-V) and S3 (400 g/tree multi-micronutrient Grade-V) and three level of foliar application viz., F1 (control), F2 (1% Spray of multi-micronutrient Grade-IV) and F3 (2% Spray of multi-micronutrient Grade-IV) and replicated thrice. Multi-micronutrients were sprayed at three stages i.e. at flower bud initiation, at full bloom stage and at pea stage. Among fruit quality parameters viz., TSS (21.37 °Brix), reducing sugar (8.04%), non-reducing sugars (10.46%), total sugars (18.28%), ascorbic acid (41.17 mg/100g), minimum acidity (0.134%) and highest shelf life of fruits (12.71 days) were recorded in treatment 1% spray of multi-micronutrient Grade-IV (F2). Whereas, significantly maximum nutrients content viz. iron (635.85 mg kg-1), manganese (164.81 mg kg-1), zinc (218.70 mg kg-1) and copper (58.56 mg kg-1) in leaf recorded under treatment F3 (2% spray of multi-micronutrient Grade-IV).
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Sumit Singh, NS Parekh, Pradeep Kumar Vishwakarma. Effect of soil and foliar application of multi-micronutrients on fruit quality, shelf life of fruits and nutrient content of leaf of mango (Mangifera indica L.) rav. Amrapali. Int J Chem Stud 2017;5(4):305-308.
