Claim · model-written summary
Pruning and N fertilization had little effect on apple yield.
- Taxon
- Apple Trees
Malus domesticat0 - Treatment
- pruning and Ne0
- Outcome
- yielde0
- Direction
- no_changeinferrede0
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Verbatim
e0“The thinning treatments resulted in significant differences in yield, but pruning and N had little effect”
t0“Apple Trees”
Title
Effects of Fruiting, Pruning, and Nitrogen Fertilization on Shoot Growth of ‘Empire’ Apple Trees1
C. G. Forshey Journal of the American Society for Horticultural Science 1982. doi:10.21273/jashs.107.6.1092
Other claims from this paper (8)
- Intervention effect The fruit thinning treatments resulted in significant differences in apple yield.
- Intervention effect Total shoot growth per tree was unaffected in the first year.
- Intervention effect Large differences in total shoot growth per tree developed in the succeeding years.
- Intervention effect Crop load had a major effect on shoot growth.
- Intervention effect Nitrogen fertilization had a major effect on shoot growth.
- Intervention effect The effect of pruning on shoot growth was minor.
- Association Total shoot growth was more closely related to shoot numbers than to mean shoot length.
- Association Total shoot growth was negatively correlated with the previous year’s crop.