Relationship between minerals and physicochemical parameters with fruit quality in ‘Rocha’ pear orchards

Funding Open access funding provided by FCT|FCCN (b-on). This work was co-supported by the European Fund for the Regional Development (FEDER), through the Internationalization and Competitiveness Operational Program (POCI), within the project: RE-EAT ROCHA PEAR (POCI-01-0247-FEDER-040016). We would also like to thank the scientific collaboration under the FCT project UIDB/50016/2020 and FCT individual Ph.D. grant (SFRH/BD/143560/2019).At the same location, variability among orchards may be high, which is reflected in fruit quality, and it may be associated mainly with growers’ practices. This study aimed to identify physicochemical variability within pears (Pyrus communis L. cv 'Rocha') from three orchards from the same location and under the same climate conditions and correlate it with mineral composition.