Claim · model-written summary
Root pruning reduced leaf quality.
- Taxon
- apple tree
Malus domesticae1 - Material
- Changfu IIe1
- Treatment
- root pruninge0
- Outcome
- leaf qualitye0
- Direction
- reducede0
Not reportedGeneCompoundOrgan / stageInteractorInteractor roleSecond interactorSecond interactor roleComparatorSettingValueQualifier
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“root pruning improved root activity and leaf P and K content,decreased leaf area index and improved environment on light and wind,but reduced leaf quality.”
e1“Taking 18-year-old‘Changfu II'apple tree with dwarfing interstock as experimental material”
Title
Effect of Root System Pruning on Root Activity and Canopy Characteristics of Apple Tree
Zhang We Northern Horticulture 2013
Other claims from this paper (11)
- Intervention effect Root pruning improved root activity and leaf P and K content.
- Intervention effect Root pruning decreased leaf area index.
- Intervention effect Root pruning improved canopy light and wind environment.
- Intervention effect Autumn root pruning had higher root activity early in the growing season.
- Observation Autumn root pruning had a small mean leaf angle.
- Observation Autumn root pruning had relatively high leaf quality.
- Intervention effect Germination-stage root pruning decreased leaf area index.
- Intervention effect Germination-stage root pruning increased light transmittance.
- Intervention effect Germination-stage root pruning had higher root activity in middle and late growth.
- Recommendation Autumn root pruning was judged more suitable for improving root activity and canopy characteristics.
- Recommendation Germination-stage root pruning was judged more suitable for improving root activity and canopy characteristics.