Claim · model-written summary
NAA hastened firmness and starch loss in fruit held 3 to 5 weeks past optimal harvest.
- Taxon
- Apple
Malus domesticat0 - Treatment
- NAAe0
- Outcome
- loss of fruit firmness and starche0
- Direction
- hastenede0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“When fruit were left on the tree for periods of 3 to 5 weeks after the optimum harvest date, NAA hastened the loss of fruit firmness and starch”
t0“Apple”
Title
AVG Effects on Preharvest Apple Fruit Drop and Maturity in Virginia
Ross E. Byers HortScience 1996. doi:10.21273/hortsci.31.4.694f
Other claims from this paper (17)
- Intervention effect AVG reduced preharvest fruit drop.
- Intervention effect AVG reduced postharvest losses of firmness and starch.
- Intervention effect AVG delayed or prevented watercore in Starkrimson Delicious and York.
- Intervention effect AVG delayed or prevented maturity cracking in Rome and Golden Delicious.
- Intervention effect AVG slightly delayed color development for most red cultivars and Golden Delicious.
- Intervention effect AVG generally left soluble solids unchanged.
- Intervention effect AVG at 123 g·ha –1 was no more effective than NAA for fruit drop.
- Intervention effect AVG at 248 g·ha –1 and above was more effective than NAA.
- Intervention effect NAA increased watercore of Delicious.
- Intervention effect NAA increased cracking of Golden Delicious and Law Rome.
- Intervention effect NAA generally did not affect soluble solids or red color.
- Intervention effect Ethephon hastened fruit drop.
- Intervention effect NAA delayed ethephon-induced fruit drop.
- Intervention effect AVG did not delay ethephon-induced fruit drop.
- Intervention effect Superior oil and Regulaid did not alter NAA or AVG responses.
- Intervention effect Silwet L-77 enhanced AVG effectiveness in one experiment.
- Intervention effect Pesticide tank mixing did not affect AVG or NAA fruit-drop responses.