Claim · model-written summary
Ethephon reduced onion plant height and number of leaves.
- Taxon
- onions
Allium cepae0 - Treatment
- Ethephone1
- Outcome
- plant height and number of leavese1
- Direction
- reducede1
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Verbatim
e0“onions ( Allium cepa L.)”
e1“Ethephon reduced plant height and number of leaves and initiated earlier bulbing”
Title
Influence of Growth Regulators on Growth, Bulbing, Maturity and Yield in Onions1
William N. Lipe HortScience 1975. doi:10.21273/hortsci.10.1.20
Other claims from this paper (8)
- Intervention effect Ethephon initiated earlier bulbing in onions.
- Intervention effect Ethephon-treated onion plants had a higher bulbing index (bulb/neck diameter) early in the season.
- Intervention effect The higher bulbing index of ethephon-treated onions did not persist to maturity.
- Mechanism The early higher bulbing index in ethephon-treated onions is attributed to more rapid bulb enlargement.
- Intervention effect At harvest ethephon significantly reduced onion bulb diameter and yield.
- Intervention effect Ethephon failed to bring about earlier maturity in onions, judged by plant lodging at harvest.
- Intervention effect GA 3 increased the number of leaves per plant and the percentage of onion plants initiating multiple growing points.
- Intervention effect No measurable responses of onions to SADH were noted.