Claim · model-written summary
Phytotoxicity studies found no effect on apple morphology or taste.
- Taxon
- apples
Malus domesticae0 - Treatment
- ethyl formatee1
- Outcome
- morphology or tastee0
- Direction
- no effecte0
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Verbatim
e0“Phytotoxicity studies showed no effect on morphology or taste of apples.”
e1“ethyl formate was applied”
Title
Eradication of eucalyptus weevils in apples by ethyl formate
Manjree Agarwal; Yonglin Ren; J. Newman; et al. Murdoch Research Repository (Murdoch University) 2012
Other claims from this paper (5)
- Intervention effect Ethyl formate was highly toxic to eucalyptus weevils on apples.
- Intervention effect Ethyl formate had low phytotoxicity to apple fruit.
- Intervention effect Apple colour and texture showed no change one to three weeks after ethyl formate treatment versus untreated apples.
- Intervention effect All eucalyptus weevils were killed in cool storage trials using ethyl formate at 50-55 g m-3.
- Observation Ethyl formate residues declined to natural levels after one day of aeration.