An Outline of Studies of Reasons and Preventive Measures for Jujube Fruit Cracking at Home and Abroad
Jujube is the hot tree species for developing economic forest in Northern China.However,jujube fruit cracking causes enormous economy loss in the jujube farming because fruit cracking would lower the fruit commercial value.The mechanism of fruit cracking was described from the 3 aspects of species,symptom and period and the 8 kinds of factors causing fruit cracking were concluded through analyzing the appearance reasons for fruit cracking at home and abroad.According to these factors,some concrete measures were summarized to prevent jujube fruit cracking,such us the selecting of variety against cracking,keeping the golden mean tree potential,spraying calcium compound,adopting rain shelter greenhouse of new type etc.These can provide some theoretic basis for preventing jujube fruit cracking.
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