Claim · model-written summary
Pruning improved fruit weight, size and firmness.
- Taxon
- Valencia Orange Trees
Citrus sinensist0 - Treatment
- pruning treatmentse0
- Outcome
- weight, size, firmnesse0
- Direction
- positive impacte0
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Verbatim
e0“These pruning treatments had a positive impact on various aspects of fruit quality, including weight, size, firmness”
t0“Valencia Orange Trees”
Title
Pruning Boosts Growth, Yield, and Fruit Quality of Old Valencia Orange Trees: A Field Study
Adel M. Al-Saif; Hosny F. Abdel-Aziz; Sobhy M. Khalifa; et al. Agriculture 2023. doi:10.3390/agriculture13091720
Other claims from this paper (7)
- Intervention effect Increasing pruning severity increased shoot length and leaf area.
- Intervention effect Pruning reduced overall canopy volume relative to the control.
- Intervention effect Pruning at 75% gave the highest fruit yield, followed by 50% and 25%.
- Intervention effect Pruning improved juice content, TSS and TSS/acid ratio.
- Intervention effect Pruning improved vitamin C content.
- Intervention effect Pruning increased fruit yield per tree and yield percentage.
- Intervention effect Pruning raised fruit yield nearly 20% compared with control.