Performance of ‘Emerald’ and ‘Jewel’ blueberry cultivars under no-chill incidence

dc.creatorRicardo Bordignon Medina
dc.creatorTatiana Eugenia Cantuarias-Avilés
dc.creatorSergio Figueiredo Angolini
dc.creatorSimone Rodrigues da Silva
dc.date2018
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T04:31:24Z
dc.descriptionClimate is a limiting factor for cultivating blueberries in new areas in Brazil, being the commercial production restricted only to the colder and high-altitude regions of the southern states. This study aimed to evaluate the performance of low- chill requirement ‘Emerald’ and ‘Jewel’ blueberry cultivars. For that, the stages of vegetative growth, sprouting, flowering fruiting and yield were assessed. The ‘Emerald’ cultivar has two peaks for both flowering and fruiting, with the main harvest period occurring between August and October, while the ‘Jewel’ cultivar shows two peaks for budding, but only one flowering peak and only one harvest, which extends from October through January. For both cultivars, the production occurs during the off-season of the internal and external markets, resulting in higher fruit prices. Growing both cultivars is feasible in a subtropical region with no-chill incidence, thus demonstrating that these cultivars have much lower chill requirements than those referred to in the literature, and favoring, this way, the fresh fruit production during the off-season of the main producing countries in the northern hemisphere.
dc.formatapplication/pdf
dc.identifier1517-6398
dc.identifierhttps://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=253067946009
dc.identifierhttps://www.redalyc.org/journal/2530/253067946009/
dc.identifierhttps://www.redalyc.org/journal/2530/253067946009/html/
dc.identifierhttps://www.redalyc.org/journal/2530/253067946009/253067946009.epub
dc.identifierhttps://www.redalyc.org/journal/2530/253067946009/movil
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/463946
dc.languageen
dc.publisherUniversidade Federal de Goiás
dc.relationhttp://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=2530
dc.rightsPesquisa Agropecuária Tropical
dc.sourcePesquisa Agropecuária Tropical (Brasil) Num.2 Vol.48
dc.subjectAgrociencias
dc.titlePerformance of ‘Emerald’ and ‘Jewel’ blueberry cultivars under no-chill incidence
dc.typeartículo científico

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