Claim · model-written summary
Calendar days appeared more practical and reliable than degree days.
- Taxon
- Tomato
Solanum lycopersicumt0 - Treatment
- Calendar day measurementse0
- Outcome
- more practical and more reliablee0
- Direction
- more practical and more reliablee0
- Comparator
- degree dayse0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“Tomato”
e0“Calendar day measurements appeared to be more practical and more reliable than degree days.”
Title
Use of Heat Units to Predict Dates for Once-Over Tomato Harvest
M. E. Austin HortScience 1968. doi:10.21273/hortsci.3.1.41
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- Method / resource Degree-day accumulations showed little advantage over calendar days after ease of calculation was considered.
- Method / resource Calendar days from stem enlargement cessation more reliably estimated earliest maximum yield than days from transplanting.
- Method / resource Days from stem enlargement cessation was the most reliable criterion studied.