Effect of soil and foliar application of zinc on quality parameters of sweet orange Var. Nucellar (Citrus sinensis L. Osbeck)

Abstract

An experiment was conducted to study the effect of soil and foliar application of zinc on quality parameters of sweet orange (Citrus sinensis L. Osbeck) Cv. Nucellar.” was carried out at Sweet Orange Research station, Badnapur, Dist. Jalna during 2017-18.The experiment was laid out in Randomized Block Design (RBD) with 12 treatments and three replication. Observations were recorded on quality characters of sweet orange. The results were revealed that, The quality parameters like reducing sugar, non-reducing sugar, acidity, T.S.S, ascorbic acid, pH, total sugar, are most effective in T10 (Soil application ofZnSO4@150gm+ Foliar spray of [email protected]%) followed by treatment T12 (Soil application ofZnSO4 @150gm+ Foliar spray of [email protected]%)and T11 (Soil application of ZnSO4@100gm+ Foliar spray of [email protected]%).