Acta Agriculturae Zhejiangensis ›› 2025, Vol. 37 ›› Issue (4): 820-830.DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1004-1524.20240328

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Effects of organic fertilizer combined with bacterial fertilizer on fruit quality and soil properties of Cerasus humilis

WANG Li(), CHEN Liming, WANG Pengfei, ZHANG Bin, MU Xiaopeng*()   

  1. College of Horticulture, Shanxi Agricultural University, Jinzhong 030801, Shanxi, China
  • Received:2024-04-09 Online:2025-04-25 Published:2025-05-09

Abstract:

In the present study, Cerasus humilis cv. Jin’ou No. 1 was selected as the experimental material. Different rates of organic fertilizer were applied alone or in combination with bacterial fertilizer. Fruit quality, soil enzymes activity, and soil physicochemical properties were measured at the maturity stage of C. humilis. It was shown that, the transverse diameter, vertical diameter and single fruit weight under the J6 treatment with application of 1 000 g organic fertilizer and 100 g bacterial fertilizer per tree were significantly (P<0.05) larger than those under the control (J0) treatment without application of any fertilizer and the treatment with application of equivalent rate of organic fertilizer (J2) or bacterial fertilizer (J4) alone. Compared with the treatments of J0, J2 and J4, the titratable acidity of fruit under J6 treatment was significantly lower, yet the total soluble solid content, ratio of total soluble solid to titratable acidity, fruit firmness, flavonoids content in fruit were significantly higher, the activity of soil sucrase, urease and catalase was significantly stronger, and the contents of soil organic matter, alkaline hydrolysable nitrogen, available phosphorus, available potassium were significantly higher. These results indicated that the effect of combination of organic fertilizer and bacterial fertilizer was better on improving fruit quality and soil fertility than that of organic fertilizer or bacterial fertilizer applied alone. The soil pH under the treatments with application of fertilizer was significantly higher than that under the J0 treatment. Through comprehensive analysis based on the membership function method, it was revealed that the J6 treatment exhibited the highest score, which was the best treatment under the experiment condition with good potential in improving both fruit quality and soil fertility.

Key words: organic fertilizer, bacterial fertilizer, Cerasus humilis, fruit quality, soil property

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