Claim · model-written summary
Plants treated with mepiquat chloride produced 3.1% fewer fruiting positions than control plants (P = 0.07).
- Taxon
- Cotton
Gossypium hirsutumt0 - Treatment
- treated with MCe1
- Outcome
- fruiting positionse1
- Direction
- fewere1
- Value
- 3.1%e1
- Qualifier
- P = 0.07e1
- Comparator
- control plantse1
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageInteractorInteractor roleSecond interactorSecond interactor roleSetting
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e1“Plants treated with MC produced 3.1% fewer (P = 0.07) fruiting positions than control plants”
t0“Cotton”
Title
Cotton Fruiting Modification with Mepiquat Chloride1
T. A. Kerby; Kater Hake; Mark Keeley Agronomy Journal 1986. doi:10.2134/agronj1986.00021962007800050032x
Other claims from this paper (11)
- Intervention effect Mepiquat chloride application did not increase the total number of bolls.
- Intervention effect The interaction of mepiquat chloride treatment and node was significant for SB1 and SB>1: treated plants set more bolls at lower nodes but fewer at upper nodes.
- Intervention effect The maximum cumulative benefit occurred at node 12, where mepiquat chloride treated plants had 15% more bolls matured than control plants.
- Intervention effect Treatment by node interactions were significant for SB1 and SB>1: mepiquat chloride increased fruiting positions up to node 15 at SB1 and up to node 9 for SB>1 but gave fewer at the remaining nodes.
- Intervention effect Early boll load was stimulated by mepiquat chloride.
- Intervention effect Late season boll load was decreased by mepiquat chloride.
- Mechanism The authors suggest the late season boll load decrease was apparently due to increased abortion of fruiting forms rather than limited initiation of fruiting positions.
- Observation Plant zone SB1, SB>1 and MB accounted for 60, 26 and 13% of all harvestable bolls.
- Observation The zones SB1, SB>1 and MB produced 37, 46 and 17% of all fruiting positions.
- Observation The zones SB1, SB>1 and MB set 45, 16 and 23% of fruiting positions as harvestable bolls.
- Recommendation Use of mepiquat chloride at the tested rate and timing would be beneficial when season length is the primary constraint to yield potential.