Claim · model-written summary
Pruning increased fruit yield per tree and yield percentage.
- Taxon
- Valencia Orange Trees
Citrus sinensist0 - Treatment
- pruninge0
- Outcome
- fruit yield per tree and an overall increase in the yield percentagee0
- Direction
- greatere0
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Verbatim
e0“pruning contributed to a greater fruit yield per tree and an overall increase in the yield percentage”
t0“Valencia Orange Trees”
Title
Pruning Boosts Growth, Yield, and Fruit Quality of Old Valencia Orange Trees: A Field Study
Adel M. Al-Saif; Hosny F. Abdel-Aziz; Sobhy M. Khalifa; et al. Agriculture 2023. doi:10.3390/agriculture13091720
Other claims from this paper (7)
- Intervention effect Increasing pruning severity increased shoot length and leaf area.
- Intervention effect Pruning reduced overall canopy volume relative to the control.
- Intervention effect Pruning at 75% gave the highest fruit yield, followed by 50% and 25%.
- Intervention effect Pruning improved fruit weight, size and firmness.
- Intervention effect Pruning improved juice content, TSS and TSS/acid ratio.
- Intervention effect Pruning improved vitamin C content.
- Intervention effect Pruning raised fruit yield nearly 20% compared with control.