Claim · model-written summary
Ethephon reduced lodging at seed harvest in onion from 53% to 10%.
- Taxon
- onions
Allium cepae1 - Treatment
- ethephone1
- Outcome
- Lodging at seed harveste3
- Direction
- reducede3
- Value
- from 53% to 10%e3
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Verbatim
e1“(2-Chloroethyl)phosphonic acid (ethephon) applied to onions ( Allium cepa L. cv. Excel) at 5% seedstalk emergence at 2500, 5000, or 10,000 ppm reduced seedstalk height from 94 to 68, 62, and 54 cm, respectively”
e3“Lodging at seed harvest was reduced from 53% to 10%”
Title
The Effect of Ethephon on Onion Seedstalk Height and Seed Production Characteristics1
J. N. Corgan HortScience 1975. doi:10.21273/hortsci.10.6.620a
Other claims from this paper (7)
- Intervention effect Ethephon at 2500 ppm reduced onion seedstalk height to 68 cm from 94 cm.
- Intervention effect Ethephon at 5000 ppm reduced onion seedstalk height to 62 cm from 94 cm.
- Intervention effect Ethephon at 10,000 ppm reduced onion seedstalk height to 54 cm from 94 cm.
- Intervention effect Ethephon at 2500 ppm had no effect on onion seed yield.
- Intervention effect Ethephon at 5000 ppm had no effect on onion seed yield.
- Intervention effect Ethephon at 10,000 ppm tended to lower onion seed yield.
- Intervention effect Ethephon did not affect onion seed weight or seed germination.