Claim · model-written summary
Shaking trees reduced pollen load.
- Taxon
- English Walnut
Juglans regiat0 - Treatment
- mechanically shaking treese0
- Outcome
- pollen loade0
- Direction
- reducede0
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Verbatim
e0“mechanically shaking trees to remove male flowers pre-bloom from either pollenizer CV's or the main CV reduced pollen load, PFA, and substantially improved yields”
t0“ENGLISH WALNUT”
Title
G. S. Sibbett; V. Polito; P. Catlin; et al. HortScience 1994. doi:10.21273/hortsci.29.5.476f
Other claims from this paper (6)
- Observation Excess pollen caused pistillate flower abscission.
- Observation Excess pollen reduced yields.
- Association Male and female bloom overlap led to PFA and reduced yield.
- Observation Pollenizer cultivars aggravated PFA and poor yields.
- Intervention effect Shaking trees reduced PFA.
- Intervention effect Shaking trees substantially improved yields.