Claim · model-written summary
The authors see little horticultural advantage in using these regulators to replace the dormancy-removing storage treatment.
- Outcome
- applying these growth regulators to freesia corms to hasten shoot emergence prior to plantinge0
- Qualifier
- little horticultural advantagee0
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Verbatim
e0“Presently, there appears to be little horticultural advantage in applying these growth regulators to freesia corms to hasten shoot emergence prior to planting in order to circumvent the need for 10 to 13 week storage treatment at 28°C to remove dormancy and to ensure rapid shoot emergence.”
Title
Response of Freesia hybrida Corms to Exogenous Growth Regulator Applications1
T. L. Gilbertson-Ferriss; H. F. Wilkins HortScience 1981. doi:10.21273/hortsci.16.4.568
Other claims from this paper (7)
- Intervention effect The tested growth regulator infusions and soaks did not shorten emergence time.
- Intervention effect Ethephon delayed shoot emergence.
- Intervention effect Ethephon combined with GA 3 synergistically further delayed emergence.
- Intervention effect Ethephon combined with GA 3 and BA synergistically further delayed emergence.
- Intervention effect Ethephon increased shoot number per corm.
- Intervention effect Ethephon plus B A increased shoot number per corm.
- Intervention effect Growth regulator treatments did not affect flowering time or flower quality.