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Productivity is negatively related to shoot growth acrossfive mango cultivars in the seasonally wet-dry tropics of northernAustralia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 June 2013

Ping Lu ,
Elias K. Chacko ,
Sean L. Bithell ,
Heinz Schaper ,
Josef Wiebel ,
Steve Cole  and
Warren J. Müller
Ping Lu*
Affiliation:
CSIRO Plant Ind., PMB 44, Winnellie, Darwin, NT 0822 Australia Present address: Energy Res. Aust. Ltd., GPO Box 2394, Darwin 0800, North. Territ., Australia. + ping.lu@riotinto.com
Elias K. Chacko
Affiliation:
CSIRO Plant Ind., PMB 44, Winnellie, Darwin, NT 0822 Australia
Sean L. Bithell
Affiliation:
Plant Ind., Dep. Prim. Ind. Fish., North. Territ. Gov., GPO Box 3000, Darwin, NT 0801, Australia
Heinz Schaper
Affiliation:
CSIRO Plant Ind., PMB 44, Winnellie, Darwin, NT 0822 Australia Present address: YARA GmbH & Co, KG Hanninghof 35 D-48249 Dülmen Germany
Josef Wiebel
Affiliation:
CSIRO Plant Ind., PMB 44, Winnellie, Darwin, NT 0822 Australia Present address: K+S KALI GmbH, Bertha-von-Suttner-Straße 7, 34131 Kassel, Germany
Steve Cole
Affiliation:
CSIRO Plant Ind., PMB 44, Winnellie, Darwin, NT 0822 Australia Present address: Navy Strateg. Command, R1-4-B160 Russell Off. Canberra ACT Australia
Warren J. Müller
Affiliation:
CSIRO Math. Inform. Stat., GPO Box 664, Canberra ACT, 2601, Australia
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Abstract

Introduction. Mango productivity is low in seasonally wet-dry tropical areas where breeding programs require information on factors affecting productivity of mango cultivars. Specifically, our study tested a novel hypothesis that, among Australian- and Florida-bred cultivars, the greater growth of vegetatively vigorous cultivars would contribute to lower levels of fruit production in comparison with less vegetatively vigorous cultivars, in a wet-dry tropical environment. Materials and methods. A field experiment was conducted on trees of the cultivars ‘Kensington Pride’ and ‘Strawberry’, both polyembryonic cultivars, and ‘Haden’, ‘Irwin’ and ‘Tommy Atkins’, all monoembryonic cultivars. Results. Shoot growth was recorded over two years; in both years the polyembryonic cultivars produced more new shoot length than the monoembryonic cultivars; ‘Irwin’ was the least vigorous cultivar in both years. Across cultivars, there was a negative relationship between normalised (by flowering intensity and canopy area) fruit number or yield and vegetative vigour as represented by new shoot length. Conclusion. The results supported the hypothesis that the greater shoot growth of vegetatively vigorous cultivars contributed to lower levels of fruit production in comparison with less vegetatively vigorous cultivars in a tropical environment. This is the first study which demonstrates that the extent of seasonal shoot growth had a fruit production cost for mango.

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AustraliaMangifera indicayieldsvigourvariety trialspolyembryonymonoembryonyAustralieMangifera indicarendementvigueuressai de variétépolyembryoniemonoembryonieAustraliaMangifera indicarendimientovigorayos de variedadespoliembrioniamonoembrionia
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Fruits , Volume 68 , Issue 4 , July 2013 , pp. 279 - 289
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© 2013 Cirad/EDP Sciences

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