Claim · model-written summary
Number of fruits was a more variable record than crop weight.
- Taxon
- Apple
Malus domesticat0 - Outcome
- Number of fruitse0
- Direction
- more variablee0
- Comparator
- crop weighte0
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Verbatim
t0“Apple Trials”
e0“Number of fruits was a more variable record than crop weight”
Title
Methods of Reducing Crop Variation in Apple Trials
C. S. Moore; S. C. Pearce Journal of Horticultural Science 1976. doi:10.1080/00221589.1976.11514723
Other claims from this paper (7)
- Method / resource In an apple trial, accumulating four years of crops gave a lower coefficient of variation than two years.
- Method / resource Accumulating six years of crops gave little advantage over four years in reducing the coefficient of variation.
- Method / resource Covariance adjustment by previous crops was useful, with two years of previous crop as good as four years.
- Method / resource Adjustment by trunk girth was less successful than previous-crop covariance but could be recommended in conjunction with previous crop.
- Method / resource Removing positional variation by analysis of variance did not have a major effect in reducing variation.
- Method / resource Multi-tree plots proved effective in reducing variation, since adjacent tree crops are not highly correlated.
- Method / resource Covariance adjustment of multi-tree plots was not successful.