The fruit quality and some components of juice, harvested from forty year old Satsuma mandarin (
Citrus unshiu Marc.) tree which had been cultivated under several nitrogen fertilizing conditions for about ten years, were discussed.
1) The fruit weight, peel ratio, brix of juice, Kjeldahl nitrogen and amino nitrogen contents increased as the nitrogen fertilizer application increased.
2) No definite tendency was observed in changes of ash and ascorbic acid content.
3) Alkalinity of the juice increased as the nitrogen fertilizer application increased but the phosphorus contents diminished on the contrary.
4) Arginine, aspartic acid, serine fraction, proline and alanine increased as the nitrogen fertilizer application increased.
Those amounted to about 70-90% of total free amino acid in Satsuma mandarin juice.
5) It was found that the amino nitrogen content of juice was defective in Japanese Agricultural Standards (more than 20mg%) at low nitrogen fertilizing conditions.
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