Claim · model-written summary
Irrigation increased TCSA; irrigated trees had TCSA 1.2 times greater than non-irrigated trees.
- Taxon
- peach
Prunus persicae0 - Treatment
- irrigatione3
- Outcome
- TCSAe3
- Direction
- increasede3
- Value
- 1.2 timese3
- Comparator
- trees grown without irrigatione3
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Verbatim
e0“Orchard floor vegetation competes with peach trees”
e3“TCSA also increased with irrigation; trees grown with irrigation had TCSAs 1.2 times greater, on average, than trees grown without irrigation”
Title
Connie L. Fisk; Michael L. Parker; Wayne Mitchem HortScience 2015. doi:10.21273/hortsci.50.5.699
Other claims from this paper (10)
- Intervention effect Trunk cross-sectional area increased with increasing vegetation-free strip width.
- Intervention effect Trees in the 3.6-m vegetation-free strip had TCSA 2.2 times greater than trees in the 0-m strip.
- Intervention effect Total yield over years 4-8 was higher in the 3.6-m plot than in the 0-m plot.
- Intervention effect Yield increased with increasing vegetation-free strip width.
- Intervention effect Yield, average fruit weight and average fruit diameter increased with irrigation in three of five years.
- Intervention effect In three of five years, fruit in irrigated plots matured earlier than fruit in non-irrigated plots.
- Intervention effect In all years, fruit in the 0-m strip matured earliest.
- Intervention effect Fruit in the 0-m strip had the smallest diameter.
- Intervention effect A vegetation-free strip as narrow as 0.6 m reduced the incidence of catfacing damage compared with the 0-m treatment.
- Intervention effect The least catfacing damage occurred with industry-standard vegetation-free strip widths greater than 3.0 m, with or without irrigation.