Claim · model-written summary
The authors attribute apple fruit-quality improvement to increased fruit and leaf Ca concentrations.
- Taxon
- Apple
Malus domesticat0 - Compound
- Cae0
- Outcome
- Increase in fruit qualitye0
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Verbatim
e0“Increase in fruit quality was attributed to a linear increase in Ca concentrations in fruit and leaf tissues”
t0““Jonathan” Apple”
Title
Fruit Quality at Harvest of “Jonathan” Apple Treated with Foliarly-Applied Calcium Chloride
Sorkel A. Kadir Journal of Plant Nutrition 2004. doi:10.1081/pln-200030102
Other claims from this paper (12)
- Intervention effect More than six CaCl2 applications improved apple fruit quality at harvest.
- Intervention effect CaCl2 treatment increased fruit weight and size.
- Intervention effect CaCl2 treatment increased apple appearance and skin redness.
- Intervention effect CaCl2 treatment reduced scald incidents in apple fruit.
- Intervention effect CaCl2 applications had no effect on apple soluble solids percentage.
- Intervention effect Frequent CaCl2 application increased the soluble solids to titratable acidity ratio.
- Observation Skin redness was the most improved Jonathan apple quality trait following CaCl2 applications.
- Observation Frequent CaCl2 application caused no observed fruit russetting or leaf scalding.
- Intervention effect Ca concentrations rose linearly in fruit and leaf tissues of treated apple trees.
- Intervention effect Potassium, magnesium, phosphorus and nitrogen concentrations rose in treated apple trees relative to controls.
- Association Potassium, magnesium, phosphorus and nitrogen were correlated with apple fruit quality at least as strongly as calcium.
- Mechanism The authors suggest that changed mineral balance after CaCl2 applications contributed to improved fruit quality.