Author(s):

MA Thorat, MB Patil, SG Patil and DP Deshpande

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 ZnSO₄@0.50%) followed by treatment T₁₂ (Soil application ofZnSO₄ @150gm+ Foliar spray of ZnSO₄@0.75%)and T₁₁ (Soil application of ZnSO₄@100gm+ Foliar spray of ZnSO₄@0.75%).

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