Claim · model-written summary
Calcium chloride delayed acervuli formation.
- Taxon
- Apple
Malus domesticat0 - Treatment
- calcium chloridee0
- Outcome
- formation of acervulie0
- Direction
- delayede0
- Comparator
- the control and calcium silicatee0
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Verbatim
e0“Fruit treated with calcium chloride and calcium propionate exhibited delayed formation of acervuli relative to the control and calcium silicate”
t0“Apple Bitter Rot Caused by Two Colletotrichum spp.”
Title
Effects of Calcium Salts on Apple Bitter Rot Caused by Two Colletotrichum spp.
Alan R. Biggs Plant Disease 1999. doi:10.1094/pdis.1999.83.11.1001
Other claims from this paper (10)
- Intervention effect Three calcium salts did not affect conidial germination.
- Intervention effect Calcium chloride inhibited germ tube growth by 41%.
- Intervention effect Calcium propionate inhibited germ tube growth by 50%.
- Intervention effect All three calcium salts reduced fungal dry weight in culture.
- Intervention effect Calcium chloride treatment produced 30% smaller fruit lesions.
- Intervention effect Calcium propionate treatment produced 30% smaller fruit lesions.
- Intervention effect Calcium propionate delayed acervuli formation.
- Intervention effect Calcium chloride reduced infection incidence at the lowest inoculum.
- Intervention effect At higher inoculum concentrations, calcium treatments and control had similar infection incidence.
- Intervention effect Field calcium treatments lowered infection incidence.