Claim · model-written summary
Spraying with 4% HELP before low temperature increased flower and fruitlet survival in peach trees by 6-36% compared with control samples.
- Taxon
- peach trees
Prunus persicae1 - Material
- ‘Reliance’e2
- Organ / stage
- flowers and fruitletse1
- Treatment
- spraying with 4% HELPe1
- Outcome
- survival of flowers and fruitletse1
- Direction
- increasede1
- Value
- 6-36%e1
- Qualifier
- need confirmation in the natural conditionse3
- Comparator
- control samplese1
- Setting
- laboratory conditionse4
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e1“The spraying with 4% HELP, done 24, 42 or 44 hours before low temperature occurred, increased the survival of flowers and fruitlets in 6-36% in peach trees and 2-31% in apple trees in comparison to the control samples”
e2“investigations were carried out on 8-9 year old peach trees of ‘Reliance’ and on 26-27 year old apple trees ‘Idared’”
e3“These results, however, need confirmation in the natural conditions in the orchard”
e4“frost resistance tests were all done in laboratory conditions”
Title
Effectiveness of HELP application on the protection of fruit plant flowers against frost
T. Hołubowicz; A. Basak; E. Pacholak Folia Horticulturae 2004