Intervention effectmodel-written summary

Preharvest foliar sprays improved fruit quality and storage outcomes relative to control.

A claim from Influence of pre-harvest application of calcium and putrescine on fruit quality of peach during storage · 2025

Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultpositivemeasured

Claim · model-written summary

Preharvest foliar sprays improved fruit quality and storage outcomes relative to control.

Treatment
pre-harvest foliar sprayse0
Outcome
fruit quality and storage outcomese0
Direction
bettere0
Comparator
the controle0

Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageInteractorInteractor roleSecond interactorSecond interactor roleSettingValueQualifier

Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Prunus persica
Prunus persica · TaxonAllagash Brewing · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

Verbatim

e0

“All other pre-harvest foliar sprays showed better fruit quality and storage outcomes than the control”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 1011–1112
e1

“peach cv. Pratap was undertaken”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 164–195

Title

Influence of pre-harvest application of calcium and putrescine on fruit quality of peach during storage

J Shubham; U Shweta; D C Dimri; et al. Plant Science Today 2025. doi:10.14719/pst.5610

Other claims from this paper (4)

Record rev-dc4b60a301b2a73a6834171011c8f7a8ee62bdf14db174fd2ed3e89e5ef81cea · schema claims-v0.9 · position 1 in the model’s answer

application · quality: grain · Prunus persica (peach)Positive and negative results

7 papers: 4 positive, 3 negative or no effect

3 papers in the same direction as this claim · 3 in the opposite direction

  1. no effect
    Foliar calcium sprays did not increase fruit quality of peach and nectarine.

    Influence of In-Season Foliar Calcium Sprays onFruit Quality and Surface Discoloration Incidence of Peaches andNectarines · 2000

    Opposite direction

  2. no effect
    Foliar calcium formulations did not improve fruit quality characteristics in the Lemonato clone.

    Foliar Calcium Effects on Quality and Primary and Secondary Metabolites of White-Fleshed ‘Lemonato’ Peaches · 2023

    Opposite direction

  3. no effect
    Near harvest AVG application did not affect fruit quality.

    Effect of preharvest aminoethoxyvinylglycine spraying time on fruit quality of 'Nagasawa Hakuho' peach (Prunus persica Batsch) during shelf-life · 2012

    Opposite direction

  4. positive
    Foliar or soil amino acid applications improved peach productivity and fruit quality.

    Improve Productivity and Fruit Quality of Florida Prince Peach Trees Using Foliar and Soil Applications of Amino Acids · 2012

    Same direction

  5. positive
    The combined pruning, fruit thinning and potassium silicate treatment gave the best vegetative growth, yield and fruit quality of peach trees.

    Treatments for improving tree growth, yield and fruit quality and for reducing double fruit and deep suture incidence in “Desert red” peach trees · 2016

    Same direction

  6. positive
    All preharvest foliar treatments improved peach fruit quality versus control.

    EFFECT OF POTASSIUM SILICATE AND CHELATED CALCIUM SPRAYS ON YIELD, QUALITY AND STORAGE OF PEACH FRUITS CV. “DESSERT RED” · 2021 · compared with control treatment

    Same direction

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Claims are grouped by organism, treatment and what was measured or targeted. A paper counts as positive when any of its claims in the group is positive.