Claim · model-written summary
Plantgard did not significantly increase leaf coating.
- Treatment
- Plantgard filme0
- Outcome
- leaf epicuticular coatinge0
- Direction
- did not significantly increasee0
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Verbatim
e0“Plantgard film did not significantly increase the leaf epicuticular coating nor did it reduce fruit weight loss or young tree water use.”
Title
Comparison of Some Antitranspirants on Orange Trees and Fruit1
L. G. Albrigo Journal of the American Society for Horticultural Science 1977. doi:10.21273/jashs.102.3.270
Other claims from this paper (9)
- Intervention effect Plantgard did not reduce fruit weight loss.
- Intervention effect Plantgard did not reduce young-tree water use.
- Intervention effect Mobileaf, Vapor Gard, Nu-Film-17, and Wilt Pruf NCF gave heavier leaf coatings than controls.
- Intervention effect Mobileaf, Vapor Gard, Nu-Film-17, and Wilt Pruf NCF reduced fruit weight loss relative to controls.
- Intervention effect Mobileaf and Vapor Gard reduced water use of potted orange trees.
- Observation Effectiveness and coating thickness declined by five months.
- Observation Effectiveness changed only slightly and nonsignificantly in the first two months.
- Intervention effect Mobileaf and Vapor Gard appeared to provide the best protection for two months.
- Intervention effect Vapor Gard appeared to give the best protection at five months.