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Chinese Agricultural Science Bulletin ›› 2025, Vol. 41 ›› Issue (15): 59-64.doi: 10.11924/j.issn.1000-6850.casb2024-0685

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Effects of Cyanamide on Early Flowering and Carbohydrates and Proline in Flower Buds of Prunus salicina var. cordata

LIU Tianfeng1(), LIAO Ruyu2, LIU Zhicheng1, JIANG Chunyan1, CAI Jianrong1, LAI Liting1, QIU Qisong1   

  1. 1 Longyan Institute of Agricultural Science, Longyan, Fujian 364000
    2 Fruit Research Institute, Fujian Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Fuzhou 350013
  • Received:2024-11-14 Revised:2025-03-17 Online:2025-05-25 Published:2025-05-29

Abstract:

The aim was to explore the optimal application concentration of cyanamide to promote early flowering and its effect on nutrient content in flower buds of Prunus salicina var. cordata. Taking 5-year-old P. salicina var. cordata as the test variety, and the water treatment was used as the control. The effects of three cyanamide concentrations [1% (T1), 0.63% (T2) and 0.42% (T3)] on the contents of starch, soluble sugar, soluble protein and proline in the flower bud of P. salicina var. cordata during flowering and flowering process were studied. The results showed that the three concentrations of cyanamide treatment had positive effects on promoting the early flowering of P. salicina var. cordata flower buds, and the effect of T1 treatment was the best, which could make the plants enter the full flowering stage more than 21 days earlier than the control. The treatment of cyanamide significantly increased the contents of starch, soluble sugar, soluble protein and proline in flower buds. The starch content reached the peak on the 10th day after treatment with T1 and T2, and reached the peak on the 17th day after treatment with T3. The peaks were significantly increased by 37.23%, 30.40% and 10.50%, respectively, compared with the control. The content of soluble sugar maintained a high level in 3-31 d. The soluble sugar content of flower buds treated with T1 reached the maximum value of 2.81 mg/(g·FW) on the 10th day, which was significantly higher than that of the control and other concentrations (P<0.05). The soluble protein content reached the maximum on the 31th day, except that the concentration of T2 treatment had no significant difference with the control on the 10th day, the other treatments were significantly higher than the control. The content of proline showed a trend of continuous and rapid increase in the germination stage, and was at a high level on the 38th day after treatment, which was 262.22, 214.81 and 203.30 μg/mL, respectively, and was significantly higher than the control. The concentration of 1% treatment of cyanamide had the best effect on promoting early flowering of P. salicina var. cordata. Cyanamide can promote the accumulation of nutrients such as starch, soluble sugar, soluble protein and proline in flower buds, which provides an important nutritional and material basis for flower bud metabolic activities and flower organ development.

Key words: Prunus salicina var. cordata, flower buds, cyanamide, flowering early, carbohydrates, starch, soluble sugar, soluble protein, proline