Claim · model-written summary
Paclobutrazol prevented spurs from developing into lateral and terminal shoots.
- Taxon
- Apples
Malus domesticat0 - Treatment
- PBe0
- Outcome
- spurs from growing into lateral and terminal shootse0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“Apples”
e0“PB prevented spurs from growing into lateral and terminal shoots”
Title
Duane W. Greene Journal of the American Society for Horticultural Science 1991. doi:10.21273/jashs.116.5.807
Other claims from this paper (14)
- Intervention effect Paclobutrazol reduced terminal, lateral and total shoot growth in the application year and subsequent years.
- Intervention effect Paclobutrazol reduced mean length of lateral and terminal shoots.
- Intervention effect Paclobutrazol reduced pruning time by 23% to 70% across four years versus unsprayed trees.
- Intervention effect Paclobutrazol increased bloom only in the first year after application.
- Intervention effect Paclobutrazol increased fruit set for two years through carryover.
- Intervention effect The 1985 paclobutrazol application reduced fruit size.
- Intervention effect The 1985 paclobutrazol application sometimes reduced soluble solids concentration.
- Intervention effect The 1985 paclobutrazol application reduced fruit length to diameter ratio.
- Intervention effect The 1985 paclobutrazol application reduced pedicel length.
- Intervention effect Promalin overcame or increased fruit length to diameter ratio in 1986.
- Intervention effect Reduced paclobutrazol rates in subsequent years caused few adverse fruit effects.
- Intervention effect Paclobutrazol increased flesh firmness at petal fall plus two weeks, but not plus four weeks.
- Intervention effect Paclobutrazol treated trees had fruit with higher flesh calcium.
- Intervention effect Paclobutrazol treated trees had less bitter pit, cork spot and senescent breakdown after storage.