Claim · model-written summary
Ethephon-treated onion plants were less prone to lodge at maturity.
- Taxon
- Onions
Allium cepae0 - Treatment
- ethephone1
- Outcome
- lodge at maturitye2
- Direction
- less pronee2
- Comparator
- non-treated plantse1
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Verbatim
e0“Onions ( Allium cepa L.) of short and long-day requirements were grown in the field under normal conditions of increasing daylength”
e1“Ethephon stimulated bulb enlargement early when applied at the 4 and 6 leaf stages but this enlargement ceased before that of the non-treated plants”
e2“Treated plants were short and less prone to lodge at maturity, and yields were reduced by high concentrations and/or repeated applications”
Title
Effect of Ethephon on Rate of Bulb Enlargement, Maturity, and Yield in Onions1
William N. Lipe HortScience 1976. doi:10.21273/hortsci.11.4.424
Other claims from this paper (5)
- Intervention effect Ethephon applied at the 4 and 6 leaf stages stimulated early bulb enlargement compared with non-treated plants.
- Intervention effect Bulb enlargement ceased earlier in ethephon-treated plants than in non-treated plants.
- Intervention effect Ethephon-treated onion plants were short.
- Intervention effect Late ethephon applications and low concentrations increased the rate of bulb growth before harvest.
- Intervention effect High ethephon concentrations and repeated applications reduced onion yields.