Claim · model-written summary
The authors recommend a 30 cm Jizhen 2 interstock for Tianhong 2 apple trees.
- Taxon
- apple trees
Malus domesticae0 - Material
- Tianhong 2e0
- Outcome
- A 30 cm lengthe0
- Qualifier
- Jizhen 2e0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“A 30 cm length was the most suitable for the Tianhong 2 apple trees when the Jizhen 2 was used as the interstock.”
Title
Effects of Dwarfing Interstock Length on the Growth and Fruit of Apple Tree
Shasha Zhou; Zhen Shen; Baoying Yin; et al. Horticulturae 2022. doi:10.3390/horticulturae9010040
Other claims from this paper (13)
- Association Tree height and interstock and scion girths decreased as interstock length increased.
- Association Apple dwarfing degree increased as interstock length increased.
- Observation A 30 cm interstock produced the fewest long branches.
- Observation A 30 cm interstock produced the most short branches and greatest short-branch proportion.
- Observation A 30 cm interstock gave the highest fruit-set rate.
- Observation A 30 cm interstock gave the highest yield per tree and cross-sectional area.
- Observation A 30 cm interstock gave the highest single fruit weight.
- Observation A 30 cm interstock gave the highest soluble: acid ratio and color brightness.
- Observation A 30 cm interstock gave better red skin coloration.
- Observation Root length, surface area and volume density showed two annual growth peaks.
- Association Root length, surface area and volume density decreased with interstock length.
- Observation Root death peaked during the autumn shoot growth peak.
- Association Dead-root length density and root turnover frequency increased with interstock length.