Claim · model-written summary
Combined AVG and NAA had similar preharvest fruit drop to AVG alone.
- Taxon
- apple
Malus domesticat0 - Treatment
- AVG plus NAAe0
- Outcome
- PFDe0
- Direction
- similare0
- Comparator
- AVG alonee0
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageInteractorInteractor roleSecond interactorSecond interactor roleSettingValueQualifier
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Verbatim
e0“The combination of AVG plus NAA had similar PFD compared with AVG alone”
t0“apple”
Title
Michelle H. Arseneault; John A. Cline Canadian Journal of Plant Science 2017. doi:10.1139/cjps-2017-0170
Other claims from this paper (10)
- Intervention effect AVG retained up to about 35% of total fruit number relative to controls in a high-drop year.
- Intervention effect NAA retained up to about 27% of total fruit number relative to controls in a high-drop year.
- Intervention effect B treatment had preharvest fruit drop similar to controls.
- Intervention effect Mg treatment had preharvest fruit drop similar to controls.
- Observation About 5% of fruit drop was associated with broken pedicels.
- Intervention effect AVG delayed starch degradation in fruit.
- Intervention effect AVG delayed ethylene evolution in fruit.
- Intervention effect AVG delayed blush skin colour development in fruit.
- Recommendation The authors support AVG four weeks before harvest to manage Honeycrisp fruit drop.
- Recommendation The authors support NAA two weeks before harvest to manage Honeycrisp fruit drop.