Claim · model-written summary
Soil boron application decreased bitter pit, internal breakdown and Gloeosporium rot.
- Taxon
- apple
Malus domesticae0 - Treatment
- Soil B applicatione0
- Outcome
- fruits with bitter pit, internal breakdown and Gloeosporium‐rote0
- Direction
- decreasede0
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Verbatim
e0“Soil B application increased apple Ca concentration and decreased fruits with bitter pit, internal breakdown and Gloeosporium‐rot”
Title
Apple yield and fruit quality as influenced by boron applications
Pawel Wójcik; Grzegorz Cieslinski; Augustyn Mika Journal of Plant Nutrition 1999. doi:10.1080/01904169909365719
Other claims from this paper (12)
- Intervention effect All boron treatments increased fruit boron concentration relative to control.
- Observation Boron sprays after bloom and soil application gave the greatest fruit boron concentration increases.
- Intervention effect Boron sprays after bloom increased fruit set.
- Intervention effect Boron sprays after bloom increased apple yield.
- Observation Treatments did not differ significantly in fruit weight losses during storage.
- Observation Treatments did not differ significantly in apples infected by Penicillium sp.
- Observation Treatments did not differ significantly in apples infected by Monilina sp.
- Observation Treatments did not differ significantly in apples infected by Botrytis cinerea.
- Intervention effect Boron sprays after bloom decreased mean fruit weight and firmness after storage.
- Intervention effect Boron sprays after bloom increased calcium concentration in apples.
- Intervention effect Boron sprays after bloom increased fruit sensitivity to bitter pit and internal breakdown.
- Intervention effect Soil boron application increased apple calcium concentration.