Claim · model-written summary
Fruit drop generally rose in October across treatments.
- Taxon
- navel oranges
Citrus sinensist0 - Outcome
- fruit drope0
- Direction
- increasee0
- Qualifier
- all treatmentse0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“There appeared a general increase in fruit drop for the month of October in all treatments”
t0“navel oranges (Citrus sinensis L.)”
Title
David M. Modise; Alfred S. Likuku; M. Thuma; et al. Unisa Institutional Repository (University of South Africa) 2009. doi:10.5897/ajb2009.000-9283
Other claims from this paper (6)
- Intervention effect Fruit drop decreased from November through February with 16 mg/L 2,4-D.
- Intervention effect The 20 mg/L 2,4-D treatment had the fewest dropped fruits through the experiment.
- Intervention effect Applying 20 mg/L 2,4-D significantly reduced fruit drop by more than 50%.
- Intervention effect Higher 2,4-D concentrations significantly increased fruit drop.
- Association Smaller fruits were more susceptible to fruit drop than larger fruits.
- Recommendation The authors suggest 2,4-D for fruit retention and quality under dry conditions.