Claim · model-written summary
Postbloom daminozide increased flowering and cropping in three of five years.
- Taxon
- Apple
Malus domesticat0 - Treatment
- Postbloom DZe0
- Outcome
- flowering and croppinge0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Qualifier
- 3 of the 5 yearse0
- Comparator
- Controls were unsprayede1
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageInteractorInteractor roleSecond interactorSecond interactor roleSettingValue
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“Apple Trees”
e0“Postbloom DZ and summer DZ plus ETH increased both flowering and cropping in 3 of the 5 years”
e1“Controls were unsprayed”
Title
D.C. Elfving; R.A. Cline Journal of the American Society for Horticultural Science 1990. doi:10.21273/jashs.115.2.212
Other claims from this paper (16)
- Intervention effect Postharvest daminozide reduced shoot number and length and trunk enlargement.
- Intervention effect Postharvest daminozide reduced fruit size.
- Intervention effect Postharvest daminozide had little or no effect on bloom, fruit set, or yield.
- Intervention effect Postbloom daminozide reduced vegetative growth and dormant pruning time.
- Intervention effect Summer daminozide plus ethephon reduced vegetative growth and dormant pruning time.
- Intervention effect Summer pruning reduced vegetative growth and dormant pruning time.
- Intervention effect Postbloom daminozide increased spur density.
- Intervention effect Summer daminozide plus ethephon increased spur density.
- Intervention effect Summer daminozide plus ethephon increased flowering and cropping in three of five years.
- Intervention effect Fruit size declined in years when cropping increased.
- Intervention effect Postbloom daminozide increased total yield by 34%.
- Intervention effect Summer daminozide plus ethephon increased total yield by 36%.
- Intervention effect Summer pruning had no effect on fruit size.
- Intervention effect Summer pruning reduced yields in 1984 and 1986.
- Intervention effect Treatments did not affect year-to-year yield fluctuation.
- Intervention effect Growth control treatments had no direct effect on foliar or fruit macronutrient concentrations.