Claim · model-written summary
Paclobutrazol increased flesh firmness at petal fall plus two weeks, but not plus four weeks.
- Taxon
- Apples
Malus domesticat0 - Treatment
- PBe0
- Outcome
- flesh firmnesse0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Qualifier
- when applied at PF + 2 weeks but not at PF + 4 weekse0
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Verbatim
t0“Apples”
e0“PB increased flesh firmness when applied at PF + 2 weeks but not at PF + 4 weeks”
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 prevented spurs from developing into 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 treated trees had fruit with higher flesh calcium.
- Intervention effect Paclobutrazol treated trees had less bitter pit, cork spot and senescent breakdown after storage.