Fine root dry matter relative to mango (Mangifera indica) tree scion size grafted on size-controlling rootstocks, is negatively related to scion growth rate

Published Date
August 2016, Volume 30, Issue 4, pp 1181–1190

Title 

Fine root dry matter relative to mango (Mangifera indica) tree scion size grafted on size-controlling rootstocks, is negatively related to scion growth rate

• Author 

• S. L. Bithell, 
• L. T. T. Tran-Nguyen, 
• M. N. Hearnden, 
• M. D. Hoult, 
• N  Hartley, 
• M. W. Smith

Original Article

First Online: 

29 January 2016

DOI: 10.1007/s00468-016-1355-z

Cite this article as: 

Bithell, S.L., Tran-Nguyen, L.T.T., Hearnden, M.N. et al. Trees (2016) 30: 1181. doi:10.1007/s00468-016-1355-z

Key message

The effects of mango rootstock cultivars on scion vigour may be predicted by scion growth rate being negatively related to fine root dry matter/scion trunk cross sectional area.

Abstract

Knowledge of root dry matter (DM) allocation, in relation to differing vigour conferred by rootstock cultivars, is required to understand the structural relationships between rootstock and scion. We investigated the mass of roots (four size classes up to 23 mm diameter) by coring proximal to five polyembryonic mango rootstock cultivars known to differ in their effects on the vigour and productivity of scion cultivar ‘Kensington Pride’, in a field trial of 13-year-old trees. Significant differences in fine (<0.64 and 0.64–1.88 mm diameter) and small (1.88–7.50 mm) root DM contents were observed between rootstock cultivars. There was a complex relationship between the amount of feeder (fine and small size classes) roots and scion size (trunk cross sectional area, TCSA), with intermediate size trees on rootstock MYP having the most feeder roots, while the smallest trees, on the rootstock Vellaikulamban had the least of these roots. Across rootstock cultivars, tree vigour (TCSA growth rate) was negatively and significantly related to the ratio of fine root DM/scion TCSA, suggesting this may be a useful indicator of the vigour that different rootstocks confer on the scion. In contrast non-ratio root DM and scion TCSA results had no significant relationships. The significant rootstock effects on orchard root growth and tree size could not be predicted from earlier differences in nursery seedling vigour, nor did seedling vigour predict root DM allocation.

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