Claim · model-written summary
High-rate ATS (5.0 gal/acre) reduced fruit set by 55% compared with untreated control.
- Taxon
- peach trees
Prunus persicae1 - Treatment
- high rate of ATS, 5.0 gal/acree2
- Outcome
- fruit sete2
- Direction
- reducede2
- Value
- 55%e2
- Comparator
- untreated controle2
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Verbatim
e1“5-year-old `Rising Star' peach trees on Lovell rootstock”
e2“The high rate of ATS, 5.0 gal/acre and Wilthin 6 pt/acre had the greatest thinning effect and reduced fruit set by 55% and 61%, respectively, compared to the untreated control”
Title
Chemical Blossom Thinining on Prunus in New York
Jason L. Osborne; Terence L. Robinson HortScience 2006. doi:10.21273/hortsci.41.4.995b
Other claims from this paper (7)
- Intervention effect Wilthin 6 pt/acre reduced fruit set by 61% compared with untreated control.
- Intervention effect High-rate ATS increased fruit size by 25%.
- Intervention effect High-rate ATS reduced yield by 45%.
- Intervention effect Soybean and petroleum oil treatments did not significantly reduce fruit set.
- Intervention effect Lime sulfur plus fish oil at 1% and 3% did not significantly reduce fruit set.
- Intervention effect The high-rate ATS and Wilthin treatments significantly reduced yield.
- Intervention effect The high-rate ATS and Wilthin treatments gave a greater proportion of the crop in the larger size categories.