Claim · model-written summary
Irrigated trees had a much greater cumulative fruit yield over 12 cropping years than trees in the narrow bare-soil strip system
- Taxon
- apple trees
Malus domesticat0 - Treatment
- irrigatione3
- Outcome
- cumulative yield of fruite3
- Direction
- much greatere3
- Qualifier
- over 12 cropping yearse3
- Comparator
- narrow bare‐soil strip systeme3
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Verbatim
t0“Cox's Orange Pippin apple trees”
e3“The cumulative yield of fruit over 12 cropping years was much greater for trees growing in bare soil and for those receiving irrigation than for those growing in the narrow bare‐soil strip system”
Title
Neil A Hipps; Martin S Ridout; David Atkinson Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture 1990. doi:10.1002/jsfa.2740530203
Other claims from this paper (7)
- Intervention effect Irrigated trees had substantially greater girths than trees between narrow and wide bare soil strips four years after planting
- Intervention effect Trees kept completely bare by herbicide had substantially greater girths than trees between narrow and wide bare soil strips
- Intervention effect After 16 years the girths of irrigated trees were much greater than those of trees in bare soil
- Intervention effect Increasing fertiliser rate from 63 to 189 kg N ha −1 had negligible or inconsistent effects on tree growth, fruit yield and size
- Intervention effect Trees in bare soil had a much greater cumulative fruit yield over 12 cropping years than trees in the narrow bare-soil strip system
- Mechanism Water appears to be a more limiting factor than nitrogen supply for tree growth and yield in this orchard
- Recommendation Irrigation is an alternative to herbicide management for increasing tree growth and fruit yield