Claim · model-written summary
Thinning had the opposite effect on average strawberry fruit weight compared with the control; the magnitude is not stated.
- Taxon
- strawberries
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Fragaria ×ananassae0 - Material
- Festivale3
- Treatment
- thinninge2
- Outcome
- average fruit weighte1
- Direction
- oppositee2
- Comparator
- controle1
- Setting
- Queensland, Australiae3
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Verbatim
e0“Fruit size declines in strawberries (Fragaria × ananassa Duch.)”
e1“Defoliation, or defoliation + thinning decreased average fruit weight (total and/or marketable fruit) by 1 to 2 g compared with the control”
e2“whereas thinning had the opposite effect”
e3“in ‘Festival’ in Queensland, Australia”
Title
Christopher M. Menzel Agriculture 2019. doi:10.3390/agriculture9060127
Other claims from this paper (10)
- Intervention effect Defoliation decreased strawberry yield (total and/or marketable) by 15% to 24% relative to the control.
- Intervention effect Thinning decreased strawberry yield (total and/or marketable) by 15% to 24% relative to the control.
- Intervention effect Defoliation plus thinning decreased strawberry yield (total and/or marketable) by 15% to 24% relative to the control.
- Intervention effect Defoliation decreased average strawberry fruit weight by 1 to 2 g relative to the control.
- Intervention effect Defoliation plus thinning decreased average strawberry fruit weight by 1 to 2 g relative to the control.
- Observation The incidence of small strawberry fruit increased towards the end of the season.
- Association Fruit weight of strawberries had a strong relationship with average daily mean temperature in the seven weeks before harvest (R2 above 0.80).
- Association Strawberry fruit weight decreased from 24 g to 8 g as temperature rose from 16 °C to 20 °C.
- Association The fruit-weight response to temperature was not affected by defoliation or thinning.
- Recommendation Without heat-tolerant cultivars, the strong temperature effect on strawberry fruit size is a problem for future production.