Claim · model-written summary
NAA plus carbaryl significantly reduced fruit set by 26%.
- Taxon
- Apple
Malus domesticat0 - Treatment
- NAA plus carbaryle0
- Outcome
- Fruit set (fruits per 100 blossom clusters)e0
- Direction
- reducede0
- Value
- 26%e0
- Comparator
- nontreated controle0
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Verbatim
e0“Fruit set (fruits per 100 blossom clusters) was reduced significantly by Accel at 50 ppm (17%) and by NAA plus carbaryl (26%) in comparison with the nontreated control”
t0“Apple”
Title
`Empire' Apple Responses to Fruit-thinning Chemicals
Warren C. Stiles HortScience 1995. doi:10.21273/hortsci.30.4.765e
Other claims from this paper (6)
- Intervention effect Accel at 50 ppm significantly reduced fruit set by 17%.
- Intervention effect All thinning treatments increased total fruit yield.
- Intervention effect NAA plus carbaryl produced significantly larger fruit than other treatments.
- Intervention effect All treatments reduced the proportion of fruit under 108 g.
- Intervention effect Only NAA plus carbaryl significantly increased the proportion of fruit at least 153 g.
- Intervention effect Treatments did not significantly influence fruit length–diameter ratio or fully developed seed number.