Claim · model-written summary
4% lime-sulfur plus 2% soybean oil did not significantly reduce apple photosynthetic assimilation.
- Taxon
- apple
Malus domesticat0 - Treatment
- 4% LS + 2% SOe0
- Outcome
- Pne0
- Direction
- did not significantly reducee0
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Verbatim
e0“The 4% LS + 2% SO, 4% LS + 4% SO, 0.5% sodium chloride (NaCl), and 2% NaCl did not significantly reduce Pn.”
t0“The effects of potential organic apple fruit thinners on gas exchange and growth of model apple trees: A model plant study of transient photosynthetic inhibitors and their effect on physiology and growth”
Title
Jason McAfee; Curt Rom Discovery The Student Journal of Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural Food and Life Sciences 2003. doi:10.54119/discovery.ogye2461
Other claims from this paper (18)
- Intervention effect The applied osmotics, salts and oils tended to reduce apple photosynthetic assimilation, evapotranspiration and stomatal conductance.
- Intervention effect 2% lime-sulfur plus 2% soybean oil significantly reduced apple photosynthetic assimilation.
- Intervention effect 4% soybean oil significantly reduced apple photosynthetic assimilation.
- Intervention effect 8% lime-sulfur significantly reduced apple photosynthetic assimilation.
- Intervention effect 5% potassium bicarbonate significantly reduced apple photosynthetic assimilation.
- Intervention effect 5% potassium bisulfite significantly reduced apple photosynthetic assimilation.
- Intervention effect 4% lime-sulfur plus 4% soybean oil did not significantly reduce apple photosynthetic assimilation in the initial studies.
- Intervention effect 0.5% sodium chloride did not significantly reduce apple photosynthetic assimilation.
- Intervention effect 2% sodium chloride did not significantly reduce apple photosynthetic assimilation in the initial studies.
- Intervention effect 2% lime-sulfur plus 2% soybean oil significantly reduced apple evapotranspiration.
- Intervention effect 5% potassium bicarbonate significantly reduced apple evapotranspiration.
- Intervention effect 4% soybean oil significantly reduced apple evapotranspiration.
- Intervention effect In a second study, 4% lime-sulfur plus 4% soybean oil reduced apple Pn, Et and gs.
- Intervention effect In a second study, 2% sodium chloride reduced apple Pn, Et and gs.
- Intervention effect In a second study, 5% potassium bicarbonate reduced apple Pn, Et and gs.
- Intervention effect In a second study, 5% potassium bisulfite reduced apple Pn, Et and gs.
- Intervention effect Treated apple stem weight, total plant weight and average leaf weight were reduced without statistical significance versus control after 20 days.
- Intervention effect Treated apple leaf surface area was reduced without statistical significance versus control after 20 days.