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Bud Fall Induction in Clove (Syzygium Aromaticum)
Manuela Baietto
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Department of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences-
Production, Landscape, Agroenergy, University of Milan, ITALY.
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Manuela.baietto@unimi.it
ABSTRACT
The abstract is to be in fully-justified italicized text, at the top of column as it is here,
Cloves - the dry unopened flower buds of
Syzygium aromaticum - represent the main
source of income for many farmers in Indonesia, Tanzania, India, and Sri Lanka.
The main issues associated with this crop are the pronounced biennial, triennial and
quadriennial bearing, which lead to irregular pattern of production, and the very
high costs of production. The objective of this experimental work was to induce the
bud fall by applying hormone-like chemicals, precursors of the abscisic acid, which is
the hormone responsible for the separation of leaves, flowers, fruits and other parts
of the shoots at maturity or senescence. From a business perspective, the goal was to
decrease the costs of harvesting, which represent more than 40% of the total
production costs. In fact, the chemical induction of the buds would have allowed for
the synchronization of bud harvest and eliminated the need for hand-picking buds
from tall trees. Two different chemical compounds were tested (ACC and Ethephon)
at varying concentrations. The experiment did not produce the expected results, as
the flower buds fall was not induced. Several technical, ecological and physiological
reasons can be taken into account to explain such results.
Keywords:
Chemical absission, eugenia caryophillata, harvesting, sustainable
agriculture, thinning.
INTRODUCTION
Syzygium aromaticum
(L.) Merr. et Perry is an evergreen tree belonging to the Myrtaceae
family. It is cultivated for the production of cloves, dried unopened flower buds which are
used as spices in gastronomy and as the essential part for kretek cigarettes (Polzinet al.,
2007). Clove tree is cultivated in the islands of Tanzania (Pemba and Zanzibar), Madagascar,
Indonesia, Comoros Islands, and Sri Lanka, but the major producer is Indonesia, with 50.000
– 60.000t per annum (Leela and Sapna, 2008). Tobacco industry in Indonesia employs about
11 million workers and is the second largest employer after the government (Nichteret al.,
2009); cigarettes represent an important source of national revenue for Indonesian
Government, whose tobacco takes was approximately 38 trillion rupiah ($4.2 billion US
dollars) in 2006 (Graham, 2006). The tobacco market in Indonesia in unique because over
90% of all smokers smoke kretek cigarettes, and only a 10% smoke “white” cigarettes.
Modern-day kreteks consists of Indonesian-grown tobacco (60-85% by wt.), chopped clove
buds (15-40% by wt.) and a brand-specific flavoring spices mix (Hanusz, 2000).
S. aromaticum
is a tropical plant that requires warm and humid climate, with an annual
rainfall of 2500-3000 mm. It has no altitude requirements, as it can grow from sea level to
1000 meters. Clove is cultivated as 7 x 7 m) or consociated crop with coconut palm, areca nut
palm, pepper, coffee and banana. It is a perennial plant, reaching 30 m in height, starting to
bear flowers after 5 years and reaching the full production after 15-20 years (Martin et al.,
1987). Harvesting is manual: flower buds are hand picked using step ladders without
damaging the branches, as this would adversely affect the succeeding growth. The buds are
hand separated from the cluster after segregation from the stalks, and evenly spread to
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facilitate sun drying, on mats or cement floors. At night, buds should be stored undercover, to
avoid moisture re-absorbing. The period of drying depends on the climatic conditions and is
typically accomplished four or five days under direct sun while it takes about four hours in
artificial drying conditions (desiccator).
The total production of clove witnessed a decrease in the last 10 years due to some
agronomic, economic and social issues which are harshly affecting the farmers, inducing
many of them to shift to other less problematic crops (cocoa, banana, palm, cassava). From a
merely agronomic point of view, the main issues regard, in particular, the irregular temporal
pattern of production, with biennial, as well as triennial and quadriennial bearing (De Waard,
1974). This problem is particularly important in Indonesia, with remarkable triennial and
quadriennial fluctuation depending on the total year rainfall, the exposure to low and high
temperatures, the length of the dry season and other ecological and physiological parameters.
However, the main problem is associated with the harvest of the intact flower buttons which
requires a very skilled and time consuming manual picking followed by their segregation
from the stalks and from the cluster. Even though the juvenile phase of clove trees lasts for
about 5 years (a relatively short time in fruit trees), the full production is reached only when
the plants are very high (20 m) and very vigorous, leading to a difficult, slow, and dangerous
harvesting processes. Moreover, the determination of the precise picking time is a crucial to
optimize the yield, the concentration of essential oils in the dried product [according to
several recent literature references (Ayoolaet al., 2008, Alma et al., 2007, Polzinet al., 2007,
Jirovetzet al., 2006, Raina et al., 2001), 18 compounds represent more than 99% of the
essential oil from clove. The major components are as follows: eugenol, 87%, eugenyl
acetate, 8%, β-caryophyllene, 3,5%] and the following year flowering time and bearing of the
tree (Martin et al., 1988); in fact, all the cloves on a tree seldom mature at the same time and,
to harvest the entire crop, trees must be picked several times during the harvesting season.
From an economic point of view, harvesting represents, in Indonesia, up to 40% of the total
production costs, depending on labor availability and location.
For these reasons, the main goal of the experiment was to evaluate the application of some
hormone-like chemicals as a tool to induce in a controlled way the flower buds fall.
The chemical thinning of flower buds is difficult to achieve, and little bibliographic records
are available, also because only few plant species are cultivated for the production of the
unopened flower buttons (buds). One of them, for instance, is Capparis spp., which is
cultivated for the production of capers, the brined unopened flower buds. Capers are
manually harvested as well, but efforts to obtain a more mechanized harvesting of Capparis
spp. have all failed (Tuttolomondoet al., 2006).
Several publications describe the application of growth regulators to fruit trees of the
Rosaceae
family and to grape, whose flower buds are sometimes too many to provide a
sufficient development of each single fruit. In this cases, chemical thinning is usually
obtained by means of molecules that induce the drop of flower buds of fruitlet, such as
hydrogen cyanamide, dinitro-orthocresol, ammonium thiosulphate, naphtaleneacetic acid,
BA, Carbaryl, and 2-chloroethylphosphonic acid. Unfortunately, all these treatments are
aimed at reducing the liveability of the fruit buds, not their abscission. Sometimes they fall,
but only after a deep physiological modification which, in most cases, totally compromises
the characteristics of the flower bud itself.
The most interesting results on buds fall were obtained when using the endogenous ethylene
naturally produced by the plant, or by applying natural or chemical precursors of the ethylene
The application of this plant hormone is a known effective tool since the 70’s, and gave good
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results on flowers and floral buds abscission: Veliath and Ferguson (1973) applied ethephon
(which is converted in ethylene by the plant metabolism) at 1000 ppm and caused the first
appreciable bud drop in tomato plants. More recently, YanChanget al. (2003) obtained
comparable positive results on the abscission of the distal areal of the pedicel of the same
species by applying very small quantities of ethylene to the plants. Another early and
interesting study was done on Phaseolus vulgaris L. (Webster et al., 1975): the application of
250 ppm ethephon promoted bud and flower abscission, while leaf abscission was unaffected
as well as the total number of fruit and seed of the following season.
Nakamura and Wakasugi (1978) studied the effects of the timing of ethephon application on
persimmon tree: when sprayed at the flower bud stage, flowers abscised at the juncture
between calyx and peduncle, whereas when sprayed at the young fruit stage, they abscised at
the juncture between calyx and fruit.
Ethylene has a great effect on the abscission of ornamental cut-flowers, in particular when
administered during transportation: in 1987, Woltering investigated the sensitivity of more
than 50 ornamental plants species to the exposure of exogenous ethylene, finding that 1-15
μ
l/l ethylene caused the abscission of flower buds and flowers (at various stages of
development) after 24 hours.
In 1991, Ethrel (ethephon) was applied at various concentration to sweet peas plants (Ohwaka
et al.): the 100 ppm Ethrel treatment resulted in the abscission of a large number of
developing flower buds, which showed a rapid rate of endogenous ethylene production
immediately after spraying.
The effects of ethylene exposure of members of the Myrtaceae family was recently
investigated (Macnish et al., 2005): the separation at a morphological and anatomically
distinct abscission zone between the pedicel and floral tube of an opened flower was already
obtained when using only 1 μl/l ethylene for 6 h induced , whereas 10 μl/l for 24 h were
necessary to completely abscise the flower buds enclosed in shiny bracteoles. It is even true
that there is no bibliographic evidence on the same effects on clovetree or on the
morphological and physiological characteristics of the fallen buds. It would be thus
interesting to investigate the abscission power of ethylene and ethephon on clove tree, and the
possibility to spray those chemicals to support the flower buds fall.
Though the application of ethephon-based chemicals was deeply investigated and easily
obtained via canopy spraying , treatments with ethylene are much more difficult to obtain, as
they require a controlled environment and/or time-prolonged applications (24 to 48 hours).
For this reason, we envisioned the possibility of using different ethylene-releasing substances
or ethylene-precursors such as 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid (ACC). Direct
applications of ACC solutions to various parts of the flower of some species (Citrus limon,
Pelargonium
spp.) led to an increased ethylene production in the specific flower part (Hilioti
et al., 2000).
MATERIAL AND METHODS
The experiment was conducted on a private clove plantation (PT. PerkebunanCengkeh
Zanzibar) in Curug Semarang (7°01’42’’S 110°42’28’’E), Central Java, Indonesia.
Bud fall induction was studied on 56 adult clove trees (Syzygium aromaticum (L.) Merr. et
Perry. Individuals were chosen throughout the selected plantation during the first survey in
the field (January 2009); the trees were all in very good shape, free from any visible disease
of biotic or non-biotic origin. The trees were similar in height (about 15 m), LAI index and
plantation year (1974). As the chemicals application timing is crucial for the evaluation of the
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buds fall, a second survey was conducted in April 2009 and allowed to check proper and
similar maturation stage of the buds of the selected trees (Figure 1).
Figure 1. Flower buds of clove tree at proper stage of maturation
Each treatment was applied on 8 individuals following a randomized blocks design of
experiment. Ethephon (CAS 16672
effects on cloves (buds) abscission. Following a literature survey, the following
concentrations were tested: Ethephon 100, 250, 500 and 1000 ppm; ACC 10
M (table 1).
Table 1. Treatments applied in the study
Chemical
No. of samples
Ethephon
8
Ethephon
8
Ethephon
8
Ethephon
8
RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
After the applications, plants were strictly observed for five days in order to evaluate: 1. the
date (or hours after chemicals application) of the first bud fall; 2. the percentage of fallen
buds after three, six, twelve and twenty
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buds fall, a second survey was conducted in April 2009 and allowed to check proper and
similar maturation stage of the buds of the selected trees (Figure 1).
Figure 1. Flower buds of clove tree at proper stage of maturation
Each treatment was applied on 8 individuals following a randomized blocks design of
experiment. Ethephon (CAS 16672-87-0) and ACC (CAS 22059-21-8) were tested for their
effects on cloves (buds) abscission. Following a literature survey, the following
ntrations were tested: Ethephon 100, 250, 500 and 1000 ppm; ACC 10
-6
, 10
Table 1. Treatments applied in the study
No. of samples
Concentration
Application
Water per plant (l)
100 ppm
1 mg/l
250 ppm
2,5 mg/l
500 ppm
5 mg/l
1000 ppm
10 mg/l
RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
After the applications, plants were strictly observed for five days in order to evaluate: 1. the
date (or hours after chemicals application) of the first bud fall; 2. the percentage of fallen
buds after three, six, twelve and twenty-four hours after the treatment; 3. the total percentage
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Each treatment was applied on 8 individuals following a randomized blocks design of
8) were tested for their
effects on cloves (buds) abscission. Following a literature survey, the following
, 10
-5
and 10
-4
Water per plant (l)
20
20
20
20
After the applications, plants were strictly observed for five days in order to evaluate: 1. the
date (or hours after chemicals application) of the first bud fall; 2. the percentage of fallen
eatment; 3. the total percentage
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of fallen buds; 4. the initial and the total percentage of fallen leaves; 5. the presence of
necrosis (black or brown spots or burns) or chlorosis on fallen/not fallen leaves, their initial
and total percentage, their evolution throughout the five days of observation.
After a negligible initial bud fall, probably due to the mechanic impact of the sprayed liquid,
we did not appreciate any buds fall during the day one nor during the following days.
The chemical analysis on the fallen buds, in order to evaluate the presence of potentially toxic
chemical residuals, and the presence of essential oils in sufficient concentrations wasn’t done
on the fallen buds, nor on the buds still on the trees due to the lack of expected bud fall.
The in-depth bibliographic research performed on the agronomic techniques applied on clove
tree has revealed a very lacunose global knowledge of this tropical crop. Few studies are
available, namely concerning the essential oils of the flower buds and the genetic breeding on
some cultivars. Very few experiments have been performed in the field in order to address the
problems related to bearing fluctuation and labor effort, as well as economic issues related to
the manual harvesting of the flower buds. The clove harvestable part is the unopened flower
buttons, and this peculiarity is shared only with Capparis spp. (in southern Italy and in some
other arid zones as Turkey)
The manual harvest of any plant part (leaves, shoots but, in particular, flowers and fruits)
represent an obstacle to the extensive cultivation of lots of species (Pyruscommunis,
Prunusmalus
, P. persica, P. armeniaca, P. avium, Rubus spp., Oleaaeuropea etc. ), and in all
cases the labor effort increases the production costs and decreases the income per hectare.
Published studies demonstrate that the scientific community has worked hard to address this
aspect, usually suggesting agronomic techniques or the application of chemicals to obtain the
natural fall of fruits in cherry (Kollar and Scortichini, 1986), and apple (Schumacher and
Stadler, 1993), two fruit trees where the harvest is mechanically assisted.
The negative results reported here can be explained by one or more of the following reasons:
1. the concentration of the sprayed solutions was not optimized; 2. the sprayed precursors of
absisic acid did not reach the right tissues and the synthesis of a sufficient concentration of
absisic acid in the abscission zones was not triggered; 3. the fall of the buds should have been
followed by a mechanical shaking of the trunk; 4. the wind drift prevented the solutions from
reaching the target tissues. These are only some of the ecological, physiological and practical
speculations that could explain the failure of the experiment, and which thus deserve further
investigations. Some other useful tests to perform in the future (next flowering season or in
the next two or three years) should be the following: (1)Increase of the concentrations of
ACC and Ethephon in solution; (2) Selection of younger or shorter (dwarf) samples in order
to obtain a very good application of the chemicals; (3) Selection of some other chemicals to
test that could be effective in the flower buds fall.
From a technical point of view, in order to facilitate the experiment and to test as many
concentrations and chemicals as possible, it should also be feasible to select only some parts
of the tree, to address the applications to the lowest branches. These samples would require
smaller volumes of solutions, which would be applicable without using high-pressure spray
pumps but small hand spray tools. The possible wind drift would also be prevented. In case
one or more applications induced the desired buds fall, the selected chemical at the effective
concentration would then be applied (the same year or the following year) at a tree scale in
order to evaluate the feasibility of the treatment.
CONCLUSIONS
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On order to solve the problem of manual harvesting of clove flower buds, and to lower the
cost production of the spice, this research was focused on obtaining the chemical abscission
of flower buds applying two hormone precursors of absisic acid (ACC and Ethephon). As no
bibliographic reports were found on chemical thinning on clove trees, the concentrations and
application methods of chemicals were chosen basing on the studies developed on other
species, in particular in order to obtain the chemical thinning of fruit lets. As no results were
obtained, further studies are necessary to achieve the economic results.
These new studies could be focused on:
- testing new hormone precursors or other chemicals on selected parts of the same
samples, or different (higher) concentrations of the same hormones already used
- testing several chemical thinning agents on another species, a small tree or a shrub,
whose harvest is the flower button, reducing the experimental economic and labour
costs
- applying growth regulators and bending the shoots of young clove tree samples in
order to obtain shorter stems and internodes, juvenility reduction, higher flower
bearings and to limit the biennial, triennial or quadrennial production fluctuation.
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