Claim · model-written summary
Highest dose NAA plus ethephon produced some thinning in Pink Lady.
- Taxon
- apples
Malus domesticat0 - Material
- ‘Pink Lady’e0
- Treatment
- highest level of NAA with ethephone0
- Outcome
- thinninge0
- Direction
- did some thinninge0
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Verbatim
e0“The highest level of NAA with ethephon did some thinning of ‘Pink Lady’ but overthinned ‘Jonagold’”
t0“apples”
Title
Preliminary examination of thinning strategies on young ‘Jonagold’ and ‘Pink Lady’ apples
K. M. Jones; S. A. Bound; C. R. Summers; et al. Australian Journal of Experimental Agriculture 1997. doi:10.1071/ea96088
Other claims from this paper (15)
- Intervention effect NAA, ethephon, and sequential NAA plus ethephon at the two lower concentrations were ineffective thinners.
- Intervention effect Highest dose NAA plus ethephon overthinned Jonagold.
- Intervention effect CyLex combination treatments were most effective at thinning.
- Intervention effect NAA plus CyLex did not thin Pink Lady enough to increase fruit size.
- Intervention effect NAA plus CyLex slightly overthinned Jonagold.
- Intervention effect Ethephon plus CyLex halved crop load in both cultivars relative to control.
- Intervention effect Ethephon plus CyLex increased Jonagold fruit weight by 29%.
- Intervention effect Ethephon plus CyLex increased Jonagold fruit size by 48%.
- Intervention effect Pink Lady fruit weight increased by 16%.
- Intervention effect Pink Lady fruit size increased by 38%.
- Intervention effect Mean fruit weight and size under ethephon–CyLex exceeded provisional targets.
- Intervention effect Ethephon–CyLex increased Jonagold fruit soluble solids by 10%.
- Intervention effect Ethephon–CyLex increased Pink Lady fruit soluble solids by 6%.
- Intervention effect Ethephon–CyLex increased Jonagold fruit firmness by 11%.
- Intervention effect Ethephon–CyLex increased Pink Lady fruit firmness by 5%.