Claim · model-written summary
Flesh firmness and dry matter increased with decreasing crop load.
- Taxon
- apple
Malus domesticat0 - Treatment
- decreasing crop loade1
- Outcome
- Flesh firmness and dry mattere1
- Direction
- increasede1
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“apple”
e1“Flesh firmness and dry matter also increased with decreasing crop load”
Title
Physiological and biochemical leaf and tree responses to crop load in apple
J. N. Wunsche; D. H. Greer; W. A. Laing; et al. Tree Physiology 2005. doi:10.1093/treephys/25.10.1253
Other claims from this paper (9)
- Intervention effect Mean fruit mass decreased by about 35% with each decrease in cropping density.
- Intervention effect Fruit from light-cropping trees had significantly advanced maturity by background color and starch/iodine score.
- Intervention effect Mean leaf photosynthetic rates of non-cropping trees were significantly lower (40%) than fruiting trees between 75 days after full bloom and harvest.
- Intervention effect The maximum reduction in photosynthetic rate of non-cropping trees was almost 60% at 118 days after full bloom.
- Association Photosynthetic activity decreased linearly with increasing leaf starch concentration.
- Association Photosynthetic activity was positively and significantly related to stomatal conductance.
- Mechanism Accumulation of nonstructural carbohydrates in leaves of light-cropping or non-cropping trees may have led to end-product inhibition of photosynthesis.
- Mechanism Increases in xanthophyll cycle carotenoids mediated non-radiative thermal energy dissipation in non-cropping trees, increasing capacity for photoprotection.
- Intervention effect Non-cropping trees had reduced photochemical efficiency.