Performance of Valencia sweet orange grafted onto dwarfing citrandarins.

ABSTRACT: Rootstock diversification is increasingly desired and necessary for the sustainability of citriculture, which is subject to adversity, such as the occurrence of Huanglongbing (HLB), which has impacted activity in most producing regions of the world. The objective was to evaluate the productivity, water-use efficiency, vegetative growth, and HLB incidence of Valencia sweet orange grafted onto three citrandarins (dwarfing) and Swingle citrumelo (standard). The field experiment was conducted under a high-density planting spacing of 5.0 m × 1.5 m (1333 plants ha^-1) for citrandarin rootstocks (IAC 1600, IAC 1697, and IAC 1711) and a conventional spacing of 6.8 m × 2.5 m (588 plants ha^-1) for Swingle citrumelo. The Swingle citrumelo rootstock combination with Valencia orang

SUBMITTER: Devite FT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11924942 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature