Claim · model-written summary
Days from stem enlargement cessation was the most reliable of the studied criteria.
- Taxon
- Tomato
Solanum lycopersicumt0 - Outcome
- most reliable criterione0
- Comparator
- many that were studiede0
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Verbatim
e0“it was the most reliable criterion of many that were studied”
t0“Tomato”
Title
Use of Heat Units to Predict Dates for Once-Over Tomato Harvest
M. E. Austin Journal of the American Society for Horticultural Science 1968. doi:10.21273/jashs.3.1.41
Other claims from this paper (3)
- Method / resource Degree-day accumulations offered little advantage over calendar days after accounting for calculation ease.
- Method / resource Calendar-day measurements appeared more practical and reliable than degree days.
- Method / resource Calendar days from cessation of stem enlargement predicted earliest maximum yield more reliably than days from transplanting.