Claim · model-written summary
Sulphur-containing fungicide may have thinned organic apple fruit.
- Taxon
- Apple
Malus domesticat0 - Treatment
- sulphur-containing fungicidee0
- Outcome
- fruit-thinning effecte0
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Verbatim
e0“This reduction may have been caused by the use of a sulphur-containing fungicide, which could have had a fruit-thinning effect.”
t0“Apple”
Title
Åsa Jönssson; Hilde Nybom; Kimmo Rumpunen Journal of Sustainable Agriculture 2009. doi:10.1080/10440040903396565
Other claims from this paper (10)
- Intervention effect Organic Aroma apple yield was 66.2 kg/tree versus 77.9 kg and 99.5 kg in IFP sections.
- Intervention effect Organic Karin Schneider apple yield was 20.7 kg/tree versus 21.9 kg and 26.1 kg in IFP sections.
- Mechanism Lower organic apple yield was mainly due to fewer fruit.
- Intervention effect Organic fruit had 10% scab damage versus less than 1% under IFP.
- Intervention effect Organic Aroma apple fruit had 8% bull’s-eye rot after storage versus 0.4% under IFP.
- Intervention effect Organic Karin Schneider fruit had 4% bull’s-eye rot after storage versus 0% under IFP.
- Observation The two apple cultivars differed in fruit quality parameters.
- Intervention effect Organic and IFP treatments had no major effects on apple color, firmness, sugar, or malic acid.
- Intervention effect IFP apple fruit had higher nitrogen content.
- Intervention effect IFP apple fruit had higher boron content.