Claim · model-written summary
Paclobutrazol treated trees had less bitter pit, cork spot and senescent breakdown after storage.
- Taxon
- Apples
Malus domesticat0 - Treatment
- PBe0
- Outcome
- bitter pit, cork spot, and senescent breakdowne0
- Direction
- lesse0
- Qualifier
- following regular air storagee0
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Verbatim
t0“Apples”
e0“Trees treated with PB produced fruit with higher flesh Ca and less bitter pit, cork spot, and senescent breakdown following regular air storage”
Title
Duane W. Greene Journal of the American Society for Horticultural Science 1991. doi:10.21273/jashs.116.5.807
Other claims from this paper (14)
- Intervention effect Paclobutrazol reduced terminal, lateral and total shoot growth in the application year and subsequent years.
- Intervention effect Paclobutrazol reduced mean length of lateral and terminal shoots.
- Intervention effect Paclobutrazol prevented spurs from developing into lateral and terminal shoots.
- Intervention effect Paclobutrazol reduced pruning time by 23% to 70% across four years versus unsprayed trees.
- Intervention effect Paclobutrazol increased bloom only in the first year after application.
- Intervention effect Paclobutrazol increased fruit set for two years through carryover.
- Intervention effect The 1985 paclobutrazol application reduced fruit size.
- Intervention effect The 1985 paclobutrazol application sometimes reduced soluble solids concentration.
- Intervention effect The 1985 paclobutrazol application reduced fruit length to diameter ratio.
- Intervention effect The 1985 paclobutrazol application reduced pedicel length.
- Intervention effect Promalin overcame or increased fruit length to diameter ratio in 1986.
- Intervention effect Reduced paclobutrazol rates in subsequent years caused few adverse fruit effects.
- Intervention effect Paclobutrazol increased flesh firmness at petal fall plus two weeks, but not plus four weeks.
- Intervention effect Paclobutrazol treated trees had fruit with higher flesh calcium.