Variability of stone pine (Pinus pinea L.) fruit traits impacting pine nut yield

Fil: Loewe-Muñoz, Verónica. Instituto Forestal (INFOR); Chile

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Main Authors: Loewe-Muñoz, Verónica, Balzarini, Mónica Graciela, Delard, Claudia, Álvarez, Andrea
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Published: 2023
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11086/548561
https://doi.org/10.1007/s13595-019-0816-0
https://annforsci.biomedcentral.com/
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author Loewe-Muñoz, Verónica
Balzarini, Mónica Graciela
Delard, Claudia
Álvarez, Andrea
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spelling rdu-unc.5485612023-08-30T12:59:00Z Variability of stone pine (Pinus pinea L.) fruit traits impacting pine nut yield Loewe-Muñoz, Verónica Balzarini, Mónica Graciela Delard, Claudia Álvarez, Andrea Pino blanco Pinus pinea Rendimiento de cultivos Identificación Características morfológicas Chile info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Fil: Loewe-Muñoz, Verónica. Instituto Forestal (INFOR); Chile Fil: Balzarini, Mónica Graciela. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Ciencias Agropecuarias. Cátedra de Estadística y Biometría; Argentina. Fil: Balzarini, Mónica Graciela. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET). Unidad de Fitopatología y Modelización Agrícola (UFyMA); Argentina. Fil: Balzarini, Mónica Graciela. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Unidad de Fitopatología y Modelización Agrícola (UFyMA); Argentina. Fil: Delard, Claudia. Instituto Forestal (INFOR); Chile Fil: Álvarez, Andrea. Instituto Forestal (INFOR); Chile. Key message: Cone to pine nut yield (PY), an important commercial feature of stone pine cropping, was higher in Chile than in main producer countries. PY is highly variable along years and depends on pine nut number inside cones, followed by pine nut weight. Cone morphometry is not a good indicator of PY, thus selecting cones for size/weight will not improve it. Context: Stone pine nuts are highly appreciated; however, pine nut yield (total pine nut weight as percentage of cone weight), important feature for the species cultivation, is variable and decreasing worldwide. Aims: Evaluating inter-annual and spatial variability of fruit traits impacting pine nut yield. Methods: Across years and plantation variability of fruit features were estimated from a multi-environment study monitored during 6 years in Chile. Variance component restricted maximum likelihood estimates were calculated for 14 fruit traits. Classification and Regression Tree (CART) was used to identify the variable best explaining pine nut yield. Results: Pine nut yield (3.6–5%) was higher than in main producer countries. Cone weight (521 g), length and diameter were correlated to most of seed and pine nut traits, but not to pine nut yield. The most important fruit trait in determining pine nut yield was pine nut number per cone, followed by pine nut weight. Pine nut yield showed high inter-annual and within plantation variability, whereas pine nut weight more spatial than temporal variability. Pine nut yield was superior in cones containing over 78 pine nuts. Conclusion: Pine nut yield has high inter-annual variability, with cone morphometry not being a good indicator, thus selecting cones for size/weight will not improve cone to pine nut yield. info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Fil: Loewe-Muñoz, Verónica. Instituto Forestal (INFOR); Chile Fil: Balzarini, Mónica Graciela. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Ciencias Agropecuarias. Cátedra de Estadística y Biometría; Argentina. Fil: Balzarini, Mónica Graciela. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET). Unidad de Fitopatología y Modelización Agrícola (UFyMA); Argentina. Fil: Balzarini, Mónica Graciela. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Unidad de Fitopatología y Modelización Agrícola (UFyMA); Argentina. Fil: Delard, Claudia. Instituto Forestal (INFOR); Chile Fil: Álvarez, Andrea. Instituto Forestal (INFOR); Chile. 2023-08-23T14:20:43Z 2023-08-23T14:20:43Z 2019 article Loewe-Muñoz, V., Balzarini, M. G, Delard, C. & Álvarez, A. (2019). Variability of stone pine (Pinus pinea L.) fruit traits impacting pine nut yield. Annals of Forest Science 76 (37). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13595-019-0816-0 http://hdl.handle.net/11086/548561 1297-966X https://doi.org/10.1007/s13595-019-0816-0 https://annforsci.biomedcentral.com/ eng Atribución 4.0 Internacional http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
spellingShingle Pino blanco
Pinus pinea
Rendimiento de cultivos
Identificación
Características morfológicas
Chile
Loewe-Muñoz, Verónica
Balzarini, Mónica Graciela
Delard, Claudia
Álvarez, Andrea
Variability of stone pine (Pinus pinea L.) fruit traits impacting pine nut yield
title Variability of stone pine (Pinus pinea L.) fruit traits impacting pine nut yield
title_full Variability of stone pine (Pinus pinea L.) fruit traits impacting pine nut yield
title_fullStr Variability of stone pine (Pinus pinea L.) fruit traits impacting pine nut yield
title_full_unstemmed Variability of stone pine (Pinus pinea L.) fruit traits impacting pine nut yield
title_short Variability of stone pine (Pinus pinea L.) fruit traits impacting pine nut yield
title_sort variability of stone pine pinus pinea l fruit traits impacting pine nut yield
topic Pino blanco
Pinus pinea
Rendimiento de cultivos
Identificación
Características morfológicas
Chile
url http://hdl.handle.net/11086/548561
https://doi.org/10.1007/s13595-019-0816-0
https://annforsci.biomedcentral.com/
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