Claim · model-written summary
Sucrose held cut carnation flowers had longer vase life than water held flowers.
- Taxon
- Dianthus caryophyllus L.
Dianthus caryophylluse0 - Organ / stage
- flowerse0
- Treatment
- sucrosee0
- Outcome
- vase lifee0
- Direction
- substantially longere0
- Comparator
- watere0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Cut carnation ( Dianthus caryophyllus L.) flowers held in sucrose have a substantially longer vase life than flowers held in water.”
Title
Promotion of Floral Longevity by the Ovary in Carnation Flowers
John N. Sacalis; Jong Suk Lee Journal of the American Society for Horticultural Science 1987. doi:10.21273/jashs.112.1.118
Other claims from this paper (7)
- Intervention effect Gynoecium excision did not affect flower longevity in water.
- Intervention effect Gynoecium excision reduced flower longevity with sucrose.
- Mechanism The ovary apparently maintained cut flower life.
- Intervention effect Gynoecium excision from buds reduced longevity on intact plants.
- Intervention effect Gynoecium removal did not significantly reduce petal sucrose or glucose.
- Intervention effect Gynoecium removal slightly but significantly lowered petal fructose.
- Mechanism The authors suggest reduced longevity after gynoecium excision is not due to failed petal sugar uptake.