Claim · model-written summary
Leaf-only terbacil was as effective as leaf-plus-fruit application.
- Taxon
- Apples
Malus domesticat0 - Treatment
- Terbacil sprays applied to leaves onlye0
- Outcome
- as effectivee0
- Direction
- as effectivee0
- Comparator
- applied to leaves plus fruite0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Terbacil sprays applied to leaves only (fruit covered with foil) were as effective as when applied to leaves plus fruit”
t0“Apples”
Title
Thinning of Spur `Delicious' Apples by Shade, Terbacil, Carbaryl, and Ethephon
R.E. Byers; J.A. Barden; D.H. Carbaugh Journal of the American Society for Horticultural Science 1990. doi:10.21273/jashs.115.1.9
Other claims from this paper (8)
- Intervention effect Terbacil reduced photosynthesis in Delicious apple trees.
- Intervention effect Terbacil reduced fruit set in Delicious apple trees.
- Intervention effect Adding X-77 to terbacil increased fruit thinning.
- Intervention effect Adding X-77 to terbacil increased leaf injury.
- Intervention effect Dipping fruit alone in terbacil did not cause abscission.
- Intervention effect Four days of 92% shade reduced fruit set by about 50%.
- Intervention effect Carbaryl spraying reduced fruit set by 25%.
- Intervention effect Shade plus carbaryl reduced fruit set by 89%.