Claim · model-written summary
Potassium bicarbonate reduced fruit weight.
- Taxon
- apple
Malus domesticae1 - Treatment
- potassium bicarbonatee0
- Outcome
- fruit weighte0
- Direction
- reducinge0
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Verbatim
e0“potassium bicarbonate had, however, side effects increasing lenticel spotting to intolerable limits and reducing fruit weight and yield”
e1“apple surface”
Title
Pest status of the sooty blotch and flyspeck complex in Asturian (NW Spain) apple orchards.
Marcos Miñarro; María Dolores Blázquez; Enrique Dapena de la Fuente 2012
Other claims from this paper (13)
- Observation SBFS signs first appeared from July 20 onward.
- Observation Signs associated with sooty blotch and flyspeck appeared on the same date.
- Observation Symptom development varied among cultivars and orchards.
- Association SBFS severity depended strongly on cultivar.
- Association SBFS severity also depended on orchard.
- Observation Damage by cultivar and orchard was similar in the two observed years.
- Intervention effect Fortnightly lime sulphur sprays gave good SBFS control.
- Intervention effect Fortnightly potassium bicarbonate sprays gave good SBFS control.
- Intervention effect Myco-San reduced fruit blemish symptoms versus untreated trees.
- Intervention effect Myco-San was less efficient at controlling fruit blemish.
- Intervention effect Potassium bicarbonate increased lenticel spotting to intolerable levels.
- Intervention effect Potassium bicarbonate reduced yield.
- Recommendation The authors called for a forecasting model to improve fungicide use.