Claim · model-written summary
Smaller pistils and heavier prethinning crop loads led to smaller fruit and a later harvest date.
- Taxon
- Peach
Prunus persicat0 - Organ / stage
- pistilse0
- Outcome
- smaller fruit and a later harvest datee0
- Qualifier
- heavier prethinning crop loadse0
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Verbatim
e0“Smaller pistils and heavier prethinning crop loads lead to smaller fruit and a later harvest date.”
t0“Peach Fruit”
Title
Harvest Date and Size Distribution of Peach Fruit Are Altered with Fall-applied Ethephon
Edward F. Durner; Thomas J. Gianfagna; Francis X. Rooney; et al. HortScience 1990. doi:10.21273/hortsci.25.8.911
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- Intervention effect Fall ethephon enhanced flower bud survival after −26C exposure in both peach cultivars.
- Intervention effect Ethephon delayed Jerseydawn bloom by 7 days in 1988 and 3 days in 1989.
- Intervention effect Ethephon delayed Cresthaven bloom by 10 days in 1988 and 4 days in 1989.
- Intervention effect Ethephon did not affect Jerseydawn fruit production in 1988.
- Intervention effect Ethephon enhanced Jerseydawn yield in 1989.
- Intervention effect Ethephon enhanced Cresthaven yield in both years.
- Intervention effect Treated trees had later harvest dates and smaller fruit size categories than untreated trees in both cultivars and years.