Claim · model-written summary
Benzyladenine application increased the seed number of abscising fruit linearly.
- Taxon
- apples
Malus domesticat0 - Treatment
- BA applicatione1
- Outcome
- Seed number of abscising fruite1
- Direction
- increased linearlye1
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Verbatim
t0“'McIntosh' apples”
e1“Seed number of abscising fruit was increased linearly by BA application”
Title
Effect of benzyladenine on fruit thinning and its mode of action on 'McIntosh' apples.
Yuan, Rongcai Scholarworks (University of Massachusetts Amherst) 2023. doi:10.7275/20483329
Other claims from this paper (19)
- Intervention effect Benzyladenine effectively thinned McIntosh apple fruit, including when shoot tips were or were not removed.
- Intervention effect Benzyladenine thinned fruit only when one leaf per fruit was on the girdled small fruiting branch, not when more than two leaves were present.
- Intervention effect Benzyladenine increased fruit size and caused seed abortion in McIntosh apples.
- Intervention effect Benzyladenine increased the first fruit abscission peak in McIntosh apples.
- Intervention effect Approximately half of the existing fruit abscised from BA-treated trees between 10 and 14 days, against one fourth from control trees.
- Association Seed number per fruit was lower in abscising fruit than in persisting fruit, regardless of BA treatment.
- Intervention effect BA applied directly to the fruit enhanced translocation of C-sorbitol from leaves to fruit.
- Intervention effect BA applied directly to the leaves did not enhance translocation to the fruit.
- Intervention effect Net photosynthesis decreased when the temperature following BA application was high (30 degrees C).
- Intervention effect Dark respiration increased when the temperature following BA application was high.
- Intervention effect When the temperature was lower, BA application had no effect on net photosynthesis.
- Observation Total nonstructural carbohydrates, total soluble sugars and reducing sugars in the leaves decreased over the 12 or 13 day observation period, regardless of BA.
- Observation Starch in the leaves decreased over the 12 or 13 day observation period.
- Intervention effect BA application further lowered the carbohydrate levels.
- Association Abscising fruit had higher reducing sugars, total soluble sugars, starch and total nonstructural carbohydrates.
- Observation Fruit abscission in June drop showed two distinguishable peaks, regardless of BA treatment.
- Intervention effect Fruit from BA-treated trees had carbohydrate levels similar to untreated control trees.
- Intervention effect Foliar application of 5% sorbitol solution had no effect on fruit set.
- Intervention effect Removing the bourse shoot tip increased fruit set, regardless of BA treatment.