Claim · model-written summary
Pink Lady fruit size increased by 38%.
- Taxon
- apples
Malus domesticat0 - Material
- ‘Pink Lady’e0
- Treatment
- ethephon and CyLexe1
- Outcome
- fruit sizee0
- Direction
- increasese0
- Value
- 38%e0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“‘Pink Lady’ increases were less, being 16% for fruit weight and 38% for fruit size”
t0“apples”
e1“The most effective treatment of ethephon and CyLex”
Title
Preliminary examination of thinning strategies on young ‘Jonagold’ and ‘Pink Lady’ apples
K. M. Jones; S. A. Bound; C. R. Summers; et al. Australian Journal of Experimental Agriculture 1997. doi:10.1071/ea96088
Other claims from this paper (15)
- Intervention effect NAA, ethephon, and sequential NAA plus ethephon at the two lower concentrations were ineffective thinners.
- Intervention effect Highest dose NAA plus ethephon produced some thinning in Pink Lady.
- Intervention effect Highest dose NAA plus ethephon overthinned Jonagold.
- Intervention effect CyLex combination treatments were most effective at thinning.
- Intervention effect NAA plus CyLex did not thin Pink Lady enough to increase fruit size.
- Intervention effect NAA plus CyLex slightly overthinned Jonagold.
- Intervention effect Ethephon plus CyLex halved crop load in both cultivars relative to control.
- Intervention effect Ethephon plus CyLex increased Jonagold fruit weight by 29%.
- Intervention effect Ethephon plus CyLex increased Jonagold fruit size by 48%.
- Intervention effect Pink Lady fruit weight increased by 16%.
- Intervention effect Mean fruit weight and size under ethephon–CyLex exceeded provisional targets.
- Intervention effect Ethephon–CyLex increased Jonagold fruit soluble solids by 10%.
- Intervention effect Ethephon–CyLex increased Pink Lady fruit soluble solids by 6%.
- Intervention effect Ethephon–CyLex increased Jonagold fruit firmness by 11%.
- Intervention effect Ethephon–CyLex increased Pink Lady fruit firmness by 5%.