Claim · model-written summary
Moderately pruned plants had the greatest leaf reducing sugar and starch levels.
- Taxon
- eggplant
Solanum melongenat0 - Organ / stage
- leavese0
- Treatment
- moderately prunede0
- Outcome
- levels of reducing sugar and starche0
- Direction
- greateste0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Verbatim
e0“The greatest levels of reducing sugar and starch were found in the leaves of moderately pruned plants, having the best PAR conditions.”
t0“eggplant”
Title
Anna Magdalena Ambroszczyk; Stanisław Cebula; Agnieszka Sękara Folia Horticulturae 2008. doi:10.2478/fhort-2013-0109
Other claims from this paper (10)
- Intervention effect Intense pruning improved PAR conditions.
- Intervention effect Fruit setting was most effective under intense pruning.
- Observation The greatest number of fruits set at the lowest nodes.
- Intervention effect Pruning affected total fruit yield.
- Intervention effect Pruning did not affect marketable fruit yield.
- Intervention effect Two-shoot plants trained from the sixth node had the greatest fruits in early and total yield.
- Intervention effect Moderately pruned plants had high reducing sugar in fruit.
- Intervention effect Two-shoot plants trained from the sixth node had the greatest fruit L-ascorbic acid level.
- Intervention effect One-shoot plants had the greatest fruit L-ascorbic acid level.
- Intervention effect Pruning method slightly affected eggplant leaf pigments.