Claim · model-written summary
Degree-day accumulations showed little advantage over calendar days after ease of calculation was considered.
- Taxon
- Tomato
Solanum lycopersicumt0 - Treatment
- degree-day accumulationse0
- Outcome
- little advantagee0
- Direction
- little advantagee0
- Comparator
- calendar dayse0
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Verbatim
t0“Tomato”
e0“The use of degree-day accumulations showed little advantage over calendar days when the ease of calculation for calendar days was considered.”
Title
Use of Heat Units to Predict Dates for Once-Over Tomato Harvest
M. E. Austin HortScience 1968. doi:10.21273/hortsci.3.1.41
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- Method / resource Calendar days appeared more practical and reliable than degree days.
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- Method / resource Days from stem enlargement cessation was the most reliable criterion studied.