Claim · model-written summary
All spray treatments decreased orange fruit creasing and drop at both harvest dates.
- Taxon
- navel orange
Citrus sinensist0 - Treatment
- all spray treatmentse0
- Outcome
- creasing and fruit drope0
- Direction
- decreasede0
- Qualifier
- both harvesting datese0
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Verbatim
e0“At both harvesting dates, all spray treatments delayed fruit softening, peel ageing and fruit color break and decreased creasing and fruit drop.”
t0“Effect of putrescine, GA3, 2, 4-D, and calcium on delaying peel senescence and extending harvest season of navel orange”
Title
H.A. Kassem; H.A. Marzouk; R.S. AlObeed Journal of Applied Horticulture 2012. doi:10.37855/jah.2012.v14i01.10
Other claims from this paper (4)
- Intervention effect All spray treatments delayed orange fruit softening, peel ageing and color break at both harvest dates.
- Intervention effect Fruit TSS, sugars and vitamin C content increased after spray treatments.
- Intervention effect The treatments extended the harvest season without worsening fruit characteristics.
- Intervention effect Combination sprays produced better results, especially combinations with putrescine.