Claim · model-written summary
Ethrel at 300 mg·L-1 did not affect russet or starch degradation pattern of Buckeye Gala apple at harvest.
- Taxon
- Malus domestica Borkh.
Malus domesticae1 - Material
- Buckeye Galae2
- Treatment
- Ethrel at 300 mg·L-1e3
- Outcome
- russet, and starch degradation pattern (SDP)e3
- Direction
- no_changeinferrede3
- Qualifier
- at harveste3
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Verbatim
e1“apple (Malus domestica Borkh.)”
e2“one rate of Ethrel in “Buckeye Gala” apple”
e3“application of Ethrel at 300 mg·L-1 did not affect fruit set, fruit weight, diameter (D), length(L), or L/D ratio 34 days after application, or yield, fruit weight, color, russet, and starch degradation pattern (SDP) at harvest”
Title
Esmaeil Fallahi; Steven J. McArtney American Journal of Plant Sciences 2022. doi:10.4236/ajps.2022.134031
Other claims from this paper (14)
- Intervention effect Ethrel at 300 mg·L-1 did not affect fruit set, fruit weight or diameter of Buckeye Gala apple 34 days after application.
- Intervention effect Ethrel at 300 mg·L-1 did not affect fruit length or L/D ratio of Buckeye Gala apple 34 days after application.
- Intervention effect Ethrel at 300 mg·L-1 did not affect yield, fruit weight or color of Buckeye Gala apple at harvest.
- Intervention effect ACC at 150 mg·L-1 or higher reduced fruit set of Buckeye Gala apple by 19% to 34%.
- Intervention effect ACC at 350 mg·L-1 significantly increased fruit weight, diameter and length of Buckeye Gala apple 34 days after application.
- Intervention effect ACC at 350 mg·L-1 increased fruit weight, color and starch degradation pattern of Buckeye Gala apple at harvest.
- Intervention effect ACC at all rates reduced total yield per tree of Buckeye Gala apple.
- Intervention effect ACC at 300 mg·L-1 significantly reduced fruit set of Sun Fuji apple in Sunny Slope area in 2013.
- Intervention effect ACC at 150 or 300 mg·L-1 did not affect yield or quality attributes of Sun Fuji apple in Sunny Slope area.
- Intervention effect ACC reduced fruit set of Top Export Fuji apple in 2013.
- Intervention effect ACC slightly increased fruit size of Top Export Fuji apple in 2013.
- Intervention effect ACC at 600 mg·L-1 significantly reduced fruit set of Aztec Fuji apple in 2014.
- Intervention effect ACC applied in a season did not reduce bloom density (return bloom) of the next season.
- Recommendation The authors conclude that ACC is an excellent late-season post-bloom fruit thinner for apple when applied at about 20 mm fruitlet diameter.