Claim · model-written summary
Autumn Pride yield rose with plant density.
- Taxon
- WINTER SQUASH
Cucurbita maximat0 - Material
- 'Autumn Pride'e0
- Treatment
- increasing plant densitye0
- Outcome
- Yieldse0
- Direction
- increasede0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Yields of 'Autumn Pride' increased with increasing plant density”
t0“WINTER SQUASH (CUCURBITA MAXIMA DUCH)”
Title
Cyril E. Broderick University of New Hampshire Scholars Repository (University of New Hampshire at Manchester) 1982
Other claims from this paper (19)
- Observation At high density Autumn Pride yielded more than Blue Hubbard near its optimum density.
- Observation Autumn Pride CO2 compensation point was 38 ppm.
- Observation Blue Hubbard CO2 compensation point was 77 ppm.
- Observation Autumn Pride had two palisade layers covering 74 percent of mesophyll.
- Observation Blue Hubbard second palisade layer was often incomplete and occupied 52 percent of mesophyll.
- Observation Leaf thickness did not differ significantly between cultivars.
- Observation Autumn Pride organs were nearer their leaves due to its dwarf stem.
- Observation Autumn Pride stems and petioles had larger diameters and vascular bundles.
- Observation Sucrose translocation into sink organs was higher in Autumn Pride over 24 hours.
- Observation The cultivars produced equal biomass in the first eight weeks.
- Observation Blue Hubbard allocated more dry mass to stems.
- Observation Autumn Pride allocated more biomass to leaves and roots.
- Observation After week eight Blue Hubbard plants became larger.
- Observation Autumn Pride maintained higher harvest indices during fruit development.
- Observation Autumn Pride harvest index at twelve weeks was 70 per cent.
- Observation Blue Hubbard harvest index at twelve weeks was 57 per cent.
- Observation Autumn Pride had higher specific leaf weight.
- Observation Autumn Pride had lower leaf area ratio.
- Observation Autumn Pride had higher cumulative net assimilation rate.