Claim · model-written summary
In 2002, each thinning treatment nearly eliminated the yield of small sweet cherry fruit compared to the control.
- Taxon
- sweet cherry
Prunus aviume0 - Treatment
- each thinning treatmente7
- Outcome
- yield of the small fruite7
- Direction
- nearly eliminatede7
- Qualifier
- In 2002e7
- Comparator
- Ce6
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Verbatim
e0“This paper reports on sweet cherry chemical blossom thinning trials conducted in 2002 and 2003”
e7“In 2002, each thinning treatment nearly eliminated the yield of the small fruit”
e6“by more than 400%, compared to C”
Title
Matthew D. Whiting; David Ophardt; James R. McFerson HortTechnology 2006. doi:10.21273/horttech.16.1.0066
Other claims from this paper (13)
- Intervention effect ATS and FOLS reduced sweet cherry fruit set by 66% to 33% compared to the control in both years.
- Intervention effect VOE reduced sweet cherry fruit set by 50% compared to the control in 2002.
- Intervention effect VOE had no effect on sweet cherry fruit set in 2003.
- Intervention effect Thinned sweet cherry trees had 30% to 60% lower fruit yield in 2002.
- Intervention effect Thinning did not affect sweet cherry fruit yield in 2003.
- Intervention effect ATS and FOLS improved sweet cherry fruit soluble solids in 2002.
- Intervention effect ATS and FOLS had no effect on sweet cherry fruit soluble solids in 2003.
- Intervention effect VOE did not affect sweet cherry fruit soluble solids in 2002.
- Intervention effect VOE reduced sweet cherry fruit soluble solids by 12% compared to the control in 2003.
- Intervention effect In 2002, each thinning treatment increased sweet cherry large-fruit yield by more than 400% compared to the control.
- Intervention effect VOE-treated sweet cherry trees yielded 4.3 kg of small fruit per tree in 2003, compared with about 0.15 kg on the control.
- Intervention effect ATS and FOLS did not affect sweet cherry small-fruit yield in 2003.
- Intervention effect ATS and FOLS increased sweet cherry large-fruit yield by 60% in 2003.