Claim · model-written summary
Four days of 92% shade reduced fruit set by about 50%.
- Taxon
- Apples
Malus domesticat0 - Treatment
- Shading trees for 4 days with 92% polypropylene shade materiale0
- Outcome
- fruit sete0
- Direction
- reducede0
- Value
- 50%e0
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Verbatim
e0“Shading trees for 4 days with 92% polypropylene shade material reduced fruit set =50%”
t0“Apples”
Title
Thinning of Spur `Delicious' Apples by Shade, Terbacil, Carbaryl, and Ethephon
R.E. Byers; J.A. Barden; D.H. Carbaugh Journal of the American Society for Horticultural Science 1990. doi:10.21273/jashs.115.1.9
Other claims from this paper (8)
- Intervention effect Terbacil reduced photosynthesis in Delicious apple trees.
- Intervention effect Terbacil reduced fruit set in Delicious apple trees.
- Intervention effect Adding X-77 to terbacil increased fruit thinning.
- Intervention effect Adding X-77 to terbacil increased leaf injury.
- Intervention effect Leaf-only terbacil was as effective as leaf-plus-fruit application.
- Intervention effect Dipping fruit alone in terbacil did not cause abscission.
- Intervention effect Carbaryl spraying reduced fruit set by 25%.
- Intervention effect Shade plus carbaryl reduced fruit set by 89%.