Claim · model-written summary
The authors suggest 2,4-D for fruit retention and quality under dry conditions.
- Taxon
- navel oranges
Citrus sinensise0 - Treatment
- 2,4-De0
- Outcome
- control fruit drop by enhancing retention, as well as improving the qualitye0
- Qualifier
- under dry climatic conditionse0
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Verbatim
e0“2,4-D can be an effective tool to control fruit drop by enhancing retention, as well as improving the quality of navel oranges under dry climatic conditions”
Title
David M. Modise; Alfred S. Likuku; M. Thuma; et al. Unisa Institutional Repository (University of South Africa) 2009. doi:10.5897/ajb2009.000-9283
Other claims from this paper (6)
- Observation Fruit drop generally rose in October across treatments.
- Intervention effect Fruit drop decreased from November through February with 16 mg/L 2,4-D.
- Intervention effect The 20 mg/L 2,4-D treatment had the fewest dropped fruits through the experiment.
- Intervention effect Applying 20 mg/L 2,4-D significantly reduced fruit drop by more than 50%.
- Intervention effect Higher 2,4-D concentrations significantly increased fruit drop.
- Association Smaller fruits were more susceptible to fruit drop than larger fruits.