Claim · model-written summary
Chemical topping increased light transmittance in upper and middle canopy layers.
- Taxon
- cotton
Gossypium hirsutumt0 - Organ / stage
- upper and middle canopy layerse0
- Treatment
- chemically-topped treatmentse0
- Outcome
- Light transmittancee0
- Direction
- greatere0
- Comparator
- controle0
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Verbatim
e0“Light transmittance in the upper and middle canopy layers was greater in the chemically-topped treatments than in the control”
t0“cotton”
Title
Fu-bin LIANG; Cheng-xun YANG; Long-long SUI; et al. Journal of Integrative Agriculture 2020. doi:10.1016/s2095-3119(19)62792-9
Other claims from this paper (10)
- Intervention effect Chemical topping produced taller cotton plants and more main stem internodes than manual topping.
- Intervention effect PGRs shortened upper-canopy fruiting branches.
- Intervention effect Chemical topping increased maximum leaf area index relative to control.
- Intervention effect PGRs increased upper canopy leaf area index by 25%.
- Intervention effect Chemical topping prolonged leaf area duration relative to control.
- Intervention effect Chemical topping increased upper canopy diffuse non-interceptance by 35.75%.
- Intervention effect Chemical topping reduced upper canopy intercepted photosynthetically active radiation by 14.45%.
- Intervention effect Greater light transmittance under chemical topping increased boll numbers in upper and middle canopies.
- Intervention effect Chemical topping reduced lower-canopy light leakage late in growth.
- Intervention effect Chemical topping tended to increase whole-canopy boll number.