Claim · model-written summary
Pruned mango trees had higher fruit yield than unpruned trees during the second year.
- Taxon
- Mango trees
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Mangifera indicae1 - Treatment
- pruninge1
- Outcome
- Fruit yielde2
- Direction
- increasede3
- Qualifier
- during the second yeare3
- Comparator
- unpruned treese1
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
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Verbatim
e1“Mango trees were subjected to pruning (removal of 50 cm of shoot from the apex) in the month of September 2009 with unpruned trees serving as control”
e2“Fruit yield of pruned trees was found to decrease during the first year compared with the fruit yield of unpruned trees”
e3“later on, it increased during the second year”
Title
Pruning affects fruit yield and postharvest quality in mango ( Mangifera indica L.) cv. Amrapali
Ram Asrey; Vishwa Bandhu Patel; Kalyan Barman; et al. Fruits 2013. doi:10.1051/fruits/2013082
Other claims from this paper (11)
- Intervention effect Pruned mango trees had lower fruit yield than unpruned trees during the first year.
- Intervention effect Pruning significantly increased fruit weight, fruit firmness and total carotenoids compared with unpruned trees.
- Intervention effect Pruning significantly increased antioxidant capacity and total phenolic content compared with unpruned trees.
- Observation Early maturity of fruit was observed from unpruned mango trees.
- Observation Fruit from unpruned mango trees changed colour faster.
- Observation Fruit from unpruned mango trees had higher total soluble solids.
- Observation Fruit from unpruned mango trees had lower titratable acidity.
- Intervention effect Fruit from pruned mango trees ripened more slowly than fruit from unpruned trees.
- Intervention effect Fruit from pruned mango trees had lower respiration, ethylene evolution rate and enzyme activity than fruit from unpruned trees.
- Intervention effect Pruning reduced anthracnose and stem-end rot disease percentage in ripe fruit.
- Recommendation Pruning appears to be an alternative strategy for better yield and quality in densely populated old mango orchards.