Trade-Offs of Flowering and Maturity Synchronisation for Pineapple Quality.

ABSTRACT: In the pineapple sector of Benin, poor fruit quality prevents pineapple producers to enter the European market. We investigated effects of common cultural practices, flowering and maturity synchronisation, (1) to quantify the trade-offs of flowering and maturity synchronisation for pineapple quality and the proportion of fruits exportable to European markets, and (2) to determine the effect of harvesting practice on quality attributes. Four on-farm experiments were conducted during three years using cultivars Sugarloaf and Smooth Cayenne. A split-split plot design was used in each experiment, with flowering induction practice as main factor (artificial or natural flowering induction), maturity induction practice as split factor (artificial or natural maturity induction) and harvesting prac

SUBMITTER: Fassinou Hotegni VN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4657890 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature