Claim · model-written summary
Crista fruit quality grade exceeded Cherokee Purple and Mister Stripey.
- Taxon
- ‘Crista’e0
- Outcome
- quality gradee0
- Direction
- superiore0
- Comparator
- ‘Cherokee Purple’ and ‘Mister Stripey’e0
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Verbatim
e0“The quality grade of ‘Crista’ was superior to ‘Cherokee Purple’ and ‘Mister Stripey’”
Title
Investigation of Yield and Quality of Grafted Heirloom and Hybrid Tomatoes
Stephen T. Flomo TopSCHOLAR (Western Kentucky University) 2010
Other claims from this paper (12)
- Observation Cherokee Purple on Maxifort was the highest yielding graft combination.
- Observation Cherokee Purple on Maxifort produced fruits 304 g heavier than Crista.
- Observation Cherokee Purple on Maxifort produced fruits 745 g heavier than Mister Stripey.
- Observation Mister Stripey produced the most fruits but had lower fruit quality.
- Intervention effect Red mulch produced significantly larger, heavier, and higher quality tomato fruit than black mulch.
- Intervention effect Black mulch produced significantly more tomato fruits per plant than red mulch.
- Intervention effect Self-grafting provided little advantage for Cherokee Purple and Crista.
- Observation Mister Stripey responded to self-grafting and merits further investigation.
- Observation Maxifort rootstock produced the biggest and heaviest fruit with the best quality.
- Observation Cherokee Purple scions produced the largest and heaviest fruit.
- Observation Crista scions produced the highest quality fruit.
- Observation Mister Stripey had the greatest number of fruit per plant.