Claim · model-written summary
Floral bud frost damage fell by more than 20% in winter 1981/82.
- Taxon
- sweet cherry
Prunus aviumt0 - Treatment
- paclobutrazole1
- Outcome
- Frost damage to floral budse0
- Direction
- reducede0
- Value
- more than 20%e0
- Qualifier
- winter of 1981/82e0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Frost damage to floral buds was reduced by more than 20% in the winter of 1981/82”
t0“sweet cherry”
e1“Annual treatments with paclobutrazol to the soil beneath cv Early Rivers sweet cherry trees significantly inhibited the growth of new extension shoots.”
Title
A. D. Webster; J. D. Quinlan; P. J. Richardson Journal of Horticultural Science 1986. doi:10.1080/14620316.1986.11515728
Other claims from this paper (16)
- Intervention effect Annual soil paclobutrazol significantly inhibited new extension shoot growth.
- Intervention effect The stated paclobutrazol schedule nearly completely inhibited extension growth on young trees of either rootstock.
- Intervention effect Treated crown volume in 1984 was one third of control volume.
- Intervention effect Floral bud density doubled in 1982 and 1983 on treated trees.
- Intervention effect Floral bud density trebled in 1984 on treated trees.
- Intervention effect Paclobutrazol increased floral buds per cluster.
- Intervention effect Paclobutrazol increased flowers per floral bud.
- Intervention effect Spring frost damage to blossoms was reduced in 1983.
- Intervention effect Paclobutrazol slightly advanced blossoming.
- Intervention effect Final fruit set percentage was unchanged in 1982 and 1983.
- Intervention effect Final fruit set percentage was halved in 1984.
- Intervention effect Yield per tree rose in 1982.
- Intervention effect Yield per tree fell in 1983 and 1984.
- Intervention effect Yield per crown volume increased by 92% in 1983.
- Intervention effect Yield per crown volume increased by 69% in 1984.
- Intervention effect Treated trees produced larger fruit in all three years.