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Gas exchange, growth, and quality of passion fruit seedlings cultivated with saline water

Journal

SEMINA-CIENCIAS AGRARIAS
Volume 42, Issue 1, Pages 137-153

Publisher

UNIV ESTADUAL LONDRINA
DOI: 10.5433/1679-0359.2021v42n1p137

Keywords

Passiflora edulis f. flavicarpa; Salt stress; Tolerance

Funding

  1. National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) [CNPq 429732/2018-0, CNPq 309127/2018-1]

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This study evaluated the gas exchange, growth, and quality of passion fruit under irrigation with waters of different salinity levels. The results showed that the gas exchange and growth of passion fruit cultivars were negatively affected by water salinity, with an acceptable level of up to 3.5 dS m(-1) for seedling quality. The passion fruit cultivars were classified as moderately sensitive to water salinity during the seedling phase based on the relative yield of total dry phytomass.
This study was conducted to evaluate the gas exchange, growth, and quality of passion fruit cultivars under irrigation with waters of different salinity levels. The experiment was conducted in a greenhouse, in Pombal-PB, Brazil, using a randomized block design in a 5 x 2 factorial arrangement, with five levels of electrical conductivity of irrigation water (0.3, 1.1, 1.9, 2.7, and 3.5 dS m(-1)) and two passion fruit cultivars (BRS Sol do Cerrado and Guinezinho), with three plants per plot and four replicates. The reduction in transpiration, intercellular CO2 concentration and CO2 assimilation rate in passion fruit plants grown with saline water was related to factors of stomatal and non-stomatal origin. Gas exchange and growth of passion fruit cultivars were negatively affected by water salinity from 0.3 dS m(-1) at 75 days after sowing. Despite the reduction in the growth of the passion fruit cultivars, irrigation with water of up to 3.5 dS m(-1) could be used to obtain seedlings with acceptable quality. Based on the relative yield of total dry phytomass, the passion fruit cultivars BRS Sol do Cerrado and Guinezinho were classified as moderately sensitive to water salinity during the seedling phase.

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