Claim · model-written summary
Pruning reduced soluble solids.
- Taxon
- Apple Trees
Malus domesticat0 - Treatment
- Pruninge0
- Outcome
- soluble solidse0
- Direction
- reducede0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“Apple Trees”
e0“Pruning reduced fruit size, soluble solids, and watercore but did not affect fruit color or flesh firmness.”
Title
S.C. Myers; D.C. Ferree Journal of the American Society for Horticultural Science 1983. doi:10.21273/jashs.108.4.630
Other claims from this paper (14)
- Intervention effect July and August pruning maintained fruit number per tree relative to unpruned trees.
- Intervention effect July pruning increased fruit number in the canopy interior.
- Intervention effect September pruning decreased fruit numbers compared with July pruning and unpruned trees.
- Intervention effect July and August pruning reduced cork spot.
- Intervention effect September pruning did not reduce cork spot.
- Intervention effect Pruning reduced fruit size.
- Intervention effect Pruning reduced watercore.
- Intervention effect Pruning did not affect fruit color.
- Intervention effect Pruning did not affect flesh firmness.
- Intervention effect Limb orientation had no effect on fruit number, soluble solids, or watercore.
- Observation Fruit on vertical limbs were better colored than fruit on horizontal limbs.
- Observation Fruit on vertical limbs were smaller than on horizontal limbs.
- Observation Interior spur-borne fruit were larger than peripheral limb fruit.
- Observation Interior spur-borne fruit were less colored than peripheral limb fruit.