Claim · model-written summary
Leaf/stem fresh weight ratio decreased as sorbitol percentage increased.
- Taxon
- apple
Malus domesticae0 - Treatment
- sorbitole1
- Outcome
- leaf/stem (fresh weight) ratio of shootse1
- Direction
- decreasinge1
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Verbatim
e0“apple scion cultivar ‘Macspur’”
e1“There was a decreasing trend in leaf/stem (fresh weight) ratio of shoots as the percentage of sorbitol increased in the medium.”
Title
Eng-Chong Pua; Calvin Chong Journal of the American Society for Horticultural Science 1985. doi:10.21273/jashs.110.5.705
Other claims from this paper (6)
- Intervention effect Shoot number was highest with 30 g/liter sorbitol in both apple cultures.
- Intervention effect Shoot fresh weight was highest with sucrose in both apple cultures.
- Intervention effect A medium with 25% sorbitol and 75% sucrose was best for shoot production.
- Intervention effect Rooting was best with 30 g/liter sucrose.
- Intervention effect After three subcultures on sorbitol medium, mature apple cultures showed enhanced shoot proliferation.
- Intervention effect After three subcultures on sorbitol medium, mature apple cultures showed enhanced rooting.