Claim · model-written summary
Plant growth regulators significantly improved fruit weight.
- Taxon
- sweet orange
Citrus sinensist0 - Treatment
- plant growth regulatorse0
- Outcome
- fruit weighte0
- Direction
- improvede0
- Comparator
- water spray (control)e1
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The fruit weight was significantly improved due to application of plant growth regulators”
e1“water spray (control)”
t0“sweet orange”
Title
Influence of plant growth regulators on fruit production of sweet orange.
S. N. Ghosh; Biswajit Bera; Sudhangshu Kumar Roy Journal of Crop and Weed 2012
Other claims from this paper (4)
- Intervention effect NAA at 15 ppm was most effective at reducing fruit drop after fruit set.
- Intervention effect NAA at 15 ppm doubled fruit production relative to control.
- Observation 2, 4-D at 10 ppm was the next most effective growth regulator for reducing fruit drop.
- Intervention effect Plant growth regulators did not significantly improve fruit quality measures including TSS, acidity, vitamin C and juice content.