Volume 45 Number 1 Article 14
Year 1991 Month 1
Title: Leaf Area and Fruitin-g Efficiency of Large and Small Fruited Cranberry Cultivars
Author: T.R. Roper
Abstract:
Fruit size in cranberry is highly variable between
cultivars.
Small fruited cultivars produce
more berries per hectare than large fruited
cultivars but yield per hectare is ofter similar.
The relationship between fruit size, yield and
leaf area per fruiting upright was, examined.
Large fruited cultivars produced more fruit per
leaf area on fruiting uprights than small fruited
cultivars.
This suggests tliat large fruited cultivars
are more efficient at producing dry weight
than small fruited cultivars.
Fruit number per
fruiting upright was similar regardless of fruit
size but small fruited cultivars had more fruiting
uprights per unit area than did large fruited
cultivars.
In this study, fruit size was important
in determining the number of flowering uprights,
which is an important yield component.
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