Claim · model-written summary
Parthenocarpic sweet pepper fruit was flatter and 30% smaller than control fruit.
- Taxon
- Sweet Pepper
Capsicum annuumt0 - Treatment
- Parthenocarpic fruit growthe0
- Outcome
- fruitse0
- Direction
- smallere0
- Value
- 30 %e0
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Verbatim
e0“Parthenocarpic fruit growth resulted in atter, 30 % smaller fruits”
t0“Sweet Pepper”
Title
Parthenocarpic Fruit Growth Reduces Yield Fluctuation and Blossom-end Rot in Sweet Pepper
E Heuvelink Annals of Botany 2001. doi:10.1006/anbo.2001.1427
Other claims from this paper (8)
- Intervention effect Auxin-treated sweet pepper plants had less variable and higher average fruit set than controls.
- Intervention effect Auxin-treated plants had more regular sweet pepper fruit yield than controls.
- Mechanism The authors attribute irregular fruit set and yield and abortion of new flowers to developing seeds.
- Intervention effect Parthenocarpic fruit had a reduced growth rate.
- Intervention effect Parthenocarpic fruit growth lasted one week longer than in controls.
- Intervention effect Blossom-end rot affected 1% of parthenocarpic fruits versus 31% of controls.
- Intervention effect Total dry mass production was the same in auxin-treated and control sweet pepper plants.
- Intervention effect Auxin-treated plants allocated 50% of dry mass to fruit versus 58% in controls.