Claim · model-written summary
High Ethrel concentrations were more effective at bulbing than lower concentrations.
- Taxon
- Onion
Allium cepat0 - Treatment
- 5,000 and 10,000 ppm Ethrele0
- Outcome
- more effectivee0
- Direction
- more effectivee0
- Comparator
- lower concentrationse0
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Verbatim
t0“Onion”
e0“Rates of 5,000 and 10,000 ppm Ethrel were more effective than lower concentrations but they also caused retarded leaf growth and a decrease in the final size of bulbs”
Title
Effect of Ethrel on Growth and Bulb Initiation in Onion1
D. Levy; N. Kedar HortScience 1970. doi:10.21273/hortsci.5.2.80
Other claims from this paper (7)
- Intervention effect Ethrel caused leaf-base swelling in onion under short days.
- Intervention effect Ethrel initiated onion bulbs under short days.
- Intervention effect Ethrel markedly raised onion bulbing index.
- Intervention effect Ethrel caused leek leaf-base swelling.
- Intervention effect Field Ethrel treatments initiated bulbs early and increased bulbing rate in all but a naturally bulbing early cultivar.
- Intervention effect High Ethrel concentrations retarded onion leaf growth.
- Intervention effect High Ethrel concentrations decreased final bulb size.