Claim · model-written summary
At 2 and 90 ppm Ca, peach fruits were greener than at higher Ca concentrations
- Taxon
- Peach
Prunus persicae1 - Treatment
- 2 and 90 ppme1
- Outcome
- Peach fruitse1
- Direction
- greenere1
- Comparator
- higher concentrationse1
- Setting
- greenhouse sand culturee0
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Verbatim
e0“grown and fruited in greenhouse sand culture under 2, 90, 180 (control), 270, and 400 ppm Ca”
e1“Peach fruits were smaller, greener, and firmer and had less soluble solids and red blush at 2 and 90 ppm than at higher concentrations”
Title
Calcium Nutrition of Peach and Prune Relative to Growth, Fruiting, and Fruit Quality1,2
Dennis A. Abdalla; Norman F. Childers Journal of the American Society for Horticultural Science 1973. doi:10.21273/jashs.98.5.517
Other claims from this paper (12)
- Intervention effect At 2 and 90 ppm Ca, peach fruits were smaller than at higher Ca concentrations
- Intervention effect At 2 and 90 ppm Ca, peach fruits were firmer than at higher Ca concentrations
- Intervention effect At 2 and 90 ppm Ca, peach fruits had less soluble solids and red blush than at higher Ca concentrations
- Intervention effect Peach fruit flavor was poorer at 2 ppm Ca
- Intervention effect Peach leaf Ca increased as Ca treatment levels increased
- Intervention effect Peach fruit Ca decreased as Ca treatment levels increased, except at 2 ppm
- Intervention effect Optimum peach fruit quality was obtained with a Ca supply of 180 to 270 ppm
- Intervention effect Prunes were little affected by Ca treatments
- Intervention effect At 2 ppm Ca, most prune fruits dropped after fruit set
- Intervention effect At 2 ppm Ca, the few prune fruits that remained were smaller
- Intervention effect At 2 ppm Ca, the few prune fruits that remained were misshapen
- Association Prune leaves accumulated more calcium than peach leaves at a given treatment