Claim · model-written summary
Final fruit set percentage was unchanged in 1982 and 1983.
- Taxon
- sweet cherry
Prunus aviumt0 - Treatment
- paclobutrazole1
- Outcome
- percentage final fruit sete0
- Direction
- not influencede0
- Qualifier
- 1982 and 1983e0
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageInteractorInteractor roleSecond interactorSecond interactor roleComparatorSettingValue
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The percentage final fruit set was not influenced by the treatments in 1982 and 1983”
t0“sweet cherry”
e1“Annual treatments with paclobutrazol to the soil beneath cv Early Rivers sweet cherry trees significantly inhibited the growth of new extension shoots.”
Title
A. D. Webster; J. D. Quinlan; P. J. Richardson Journal of Horticultural Science 1986. doi:10.1080/14620316.1986.11515728
Other claims from this paper (16)
- Intervention effect Annual soil paclobutrazol significantly inhibited new extension shoot growth.
- Intervention effect The stated paclobutrazol schedule nearly completely inhibited extension growth on young trees of either rootstock.
- Intervention effect Treated crown volume in 1984 was one third of control volume.
- Intervention effect Floral bud density doubled in 1982 and 1983 on treated trees.
- Intervention effect Floral bud density trebled in 1984 on treated trees.
- Intervention effect Paclobutrazol increased floral buds per cluster.
- Intervention effect Paclobutrazol increased flowers per floral bud.
- Intervention effect Floral bud frost damage fell by more than 20% in winter 1981/82.
- Intervention effect Spring frost damage to blossoms was reduced in 1983.
- Intervention effect Paclobutrazol slightly advanced blossoming.
- Intervention effect Final fruit set percentage was halved in 1984.
- Intervention effect Yield per tree rose in 1982.
- Intervention effect Yield per tree fell in 1983 and 1984.
- Intervention effect Yield per crown volume increased by 92% in 1983.
- Intervention effect Yield per crown volume increased by 69% in 1984.
- Intervention effect Treated trees produced larger fruit in all three years.