OPTIMIZATION OF QUALIFIED NURSERY TREE PRODUCTION AND FERTILIZATION RELATIONSHIPS IN MASTIC TREE
Bildiriler > Özet Bildiri · 2023
Yazarlar: Seda ERDOĞAN BAYRAM, Murat İSFENDİYAROĞLU
MESMAP – 9/The 9th International Mediterranean Symposium on Medicinal and Aromatic Plants, Türkiye, Ankara, Uluslararası, Sözlü Sunum, Özet Bildiri, 2023-2023, ss 80-80
Özet
<p>Mastic tree (Pistacia lentiscus) is found in flora of Turkey, besides the other countries having coast on the Mediterranean. Alhough, the variety P. lentiscus var. chia from which the gum mastic is being economically obtained, has been grown only in Chios Island of Greece. It is a known fact that, mastic tree had also been grown in Çeşme Peninsula in the past, where the ecologoical conditions are identical. In recent years some studies conducted by related organizations aiming on to restart the mastic tree growing in proper ecologies of our country have became prominent. In mastic tree, which is a biologically dioecious plant, gum mastic production has been conducted only from male plants. For this reason, only vegetative methods should be used for propagation of this plant. The traditional propagation method of mastic tree depends on planting of cuttings, that prepared from the relatively old shoots, directly to the places where the plantation will be established. In different studies, besides the clonal differences, depending on the application of root promoting auxins and the rooting media used, percent rooting up to 80% was obtained in leafy semi-hardwood cuttings was exposed. Despite some questionable aspects of other propagation methods such as budding/grafting, air layering and micro-propagation, they also have different problems need to be discussed. In mastic tree and relative species, it’s a common practice that using some organic and inorganic substrate mixtures together with soil in growing young nursery trees. It is a known fact that the growing media particularly enriched with mineral fertilizers, positively affect the nursery tree quality parameters. From this point of view, to expose the effects of slow releasing fertilizers which became prominant in recent years on nursery tree growth. Slow releasing fertilizers applied to growing medium have been significantly increased the nursery tree quality in many woody plant species. In optimization of qualified nursery tree production, the importance of fertilization at nursery tree level together with proper propagation methods have discussed in this paper.</p>