Claim · model-written summary
Pruned peach trees had lower dry weight than controls at season end.
- Taxon
- peach trees
Prunus persicat0 - Treatment
- prunede0
- Outcome
- dry weightse0
- Direction
- lowere0
- Qualifier
- 2.5 months after pruninge0
- Comparator
- control treese0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The dry weights of pruned trees were lower than those of control trees at the end of the growing season (i.e., 2.5 months after pruning), whereas shoot:root ratios were restored to the initial values.”
t0“peach trees”
Title
S. Mediene; M. O. Jordan; L. Pages; et al. Tree Physiology 2002. doi:10.1093/treephys/22.18.1289
Other claims from this paper (8)
- Intervention effect Pruned peach trees restored shoot:root ratios to initial values.
- Intervention effect Growth components of remaining secondary axes were similar to control for the first 24 days after pruning.
- Observation New secondary axes formed in the first 24 days after pruning.
- Observation Secondary axis diameter and branching increased in the subsequent 17 days.
- Intervention effect Pruned tree growth rate remained similar to controls in the next 17 days.
- Intervention effect Pruning did not significantly affect nonstructural carbohydrate concentrations.
- Intervention effect Nitrogen concentrations increased in several organs of pruned trees in the first growth period.
- Mechanism Transient internal nitrogen availability contributed to new axis initiation and more functional shoot-root biomass partitioning.