Claim · model-written summary
Ethephon reduced average onion bulb weight by 14% to 67%.
- Taxon
- onion
Allium cepae0 - Treatment
- Ethephon at 1 000 and 3 000 mg l−1e0
- Outcome
- average bulb weighte0
- Direction
- reducede0
- Value
- 14% to 67%e0
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Verbatim
e0“Ethephon at 1 000 and 3 000 mg l−1 applied either on one occasion or three times at weekly intervals to two onion cultivars reduced average bulb weight and total yield by 14% to 67%”
Title
T.H. Thomas; W.E.F. Rankin Journal of Horticultural Science 1982. doi:10.1080/00221589.1982.11515079
Other claims from this paper (4)
- Intervention effect Ethephon reduced total onion yield by 14% to 67%.
- Intervention effect Ethephon reduced bull-neck bulbs in cv Hygro.
- Intervention effect Cv Cepavon bull-neck bulbs were unaffected by ethephon.
- Intervention effect Ethephon treatments except a single 1000 mg l−1 application reduced onion bulb sprouting in storage.