Claim · model-written summary
Ethephon inhibited onion plant growth.
- Taxon
- Onions
Allium cepat0 - Treatment
- Ethephone0
- Outcome
- plant growthe0
- Direction
- inhibitede0
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Verbatim
e0“Ethephon inhibited plant growth”
t0“Onions”
Title
Bolting Control by Ethephon in Fall-planted, Short-day Onions1
J. N. Corgan; Juan Izquierdo Journal of the American Society for Horticultural Science 1979. doi:10.21273/jashs.104.3.387
Other claims from this paper (8)
- Intervention effect Fall and late winter ethephon reduced onion bolting.
- Intervention effect Ethephon reduced onion bulb size.
- Intervention effect Ethephon reduced yield when control bolting was low.
- Intervention effect Ethephon reduced yield when cool spring weather restricted growth.
- Intervention effect With warm spring weather, ethephon reduced onion bolting from 18% to 3%.
- Intervention effect With warm spring weather, ethephon had no effect on onion yield.
- Intervention effect Ethephon caused winter plant loss in one of three years.
- Association Winter plant loss was greatest after higher fall ethephon rates on very young plants.