Claim · model-written summary
The actual number of large fruits was unchanged or reduced after thinning.
- Taxon
- apple
Malus domesticat0 - Treatment
- Fruit thinninge0
- Outcome
- actual number of large fruitse0
- Direction
- unchanged or reducede0
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Verbatim
e0“Fruit thinning increased the percentage of larger fruits, but reductions in yield were such that the actual number of large fruits was either unchanged or reduced”
t0“Apples”
Title
Fruit Numbers, Fruit Size, and Yield Relationships in ‘McIntosh’ Apples1
C. G. Forshey; D. C. Elfving Journal of the American Society for Horticultural Science 1977. doi:10.21273/jashs.102.4.399
Other claims from this paper (5)
- Association Yield was positively related to fruit numbers.
- Association Yield was negatively related to fruit size.
- Intervention effect Thinning increased fruit size proportionately less than it reduced fruit numbers.
- Intervention effect Fruit thinning increased the percentage of larger fruits.
- Intervention effect Fruit thinning reduced yield.