Claim · model-written summary
Irrigated fruit had significantly higher fresh weight at 21 weeks after full bloom.
- Taxon
- olive
Olea europaeat0 - Organ / stage
- fruitse0
- Treatment
- irrigated treese0
- Outcome
- fresh weight of fruitse0
- Direction
- highere0
- Qualifier
- 21 weeks after full bloom (AFB)e0
- Comparator
- rainfed treese0
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Verbatim
e0“The fresh weight of fruits from irrigated trees was significantly higher than that from rainfed trees at 21 weeks after full bloom (AFB)”
t0“olive ‘Frantoio’”
Title
Growth and development of fruits of olive ‘Frantoio’ under irrigated and rainfed conditions
G. Costagli; R. Gucci; Hava Rapoport The Journal of Horticultural Science and Biotechnology 2003. doi:10.1080/14620316.2003.11511577
Other claims from this paper (11)
- Intervention effect Fruit fresh weight did not differ at 8 weeks after full bloom.
- Intervention effect Fruit dry weight did not differ at either date.
- Intervention effect Mesocarp equatorial area was 15.6% greater with irrigation at 8 weeks.
- Intervention effect Mesocarp equatorial area was 13.5% greater with irrigation at 21 weeks.
- Observation Endocarp transverse area did not increase between 8 and 21 weeks.
- Intervention effect Endocarp transverse area was greater in irrigated trees.
- Observation Mesocarp transverse area increased about 2.5-fold between 8 and 21 weeks under both treatments.
- Observation Mesocarp cell size increased more than two-fold between sampling dates.
- Observation Mesocarp cell number increased only slightly between sampling dates.
- Intervention effect Irrigation appeared to increase mesocarp cell size rather than cell number.
- Intervention effect Mesocarp oil content did not differ between irrigated and rainfed trees at either date.