Claim · model-written summary
Late irrigation cutoff produced the firmest fruit.
- Taxon
- Northern Highbush Blueberry
Vaccinium corymbosumt0 - Treatment
- Cutting off irrigation latee0
- Outcome
- fruite0
- Direction
- firmeste0
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageInteractorInteractor roleSecond interactorSecond interactor roleComparatorSettingValueQualifier
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Cutting off irrigation late produced the smallest and firmest fruit”
t0“Northern Highbush Blueberry”
Title
Khalid F. Almutairi; David R. Bryla; Bernadine C. Strik HortScience 2017. doi:10.21273/hortsci11533-16
Other claims from this paper (17)
- Intervention effect Stem water potential was similar under full and deficit irrigation.
- Intervention effect Early irrigation cutoff lowered stem water potential by 0.5–0.6 MPa.
- Intervention effect Late irrigation cutoff lowered stem water potential by more than 2.0 MPa.
- Intervention effect Deficit irrigation advanced the fruiting season in one or both years.
- Intervention effect Late irrigation cutoff advanced the fruiting season in one or both years.
- Intervention effect Early irrigation cutoff delayed the fruiting season.
- Intervention effect Deficit irrigation left yield unaffected at full crop load.
- Intervention effect Late irrigation cutoff reduced yield by an average of 35% each year.
- Intervention effect Early irrigation cutoff reduced yield in the second year without thinning.
- Intervention effect Early cutoff reduced fruit soluble solids by 7% to 24% relative to full irrigation.
- Intervention effect Early cutoff reduced berry weight by 7% to 24% relative to full irrigation.
- Intervention effect Late irrigation cutoff produced the smallest fruit.
- Intervention effect Late cutoff produced the highest fruit soluble solids and total acidity.
- Intervention effect Late cutoff gave the slowest rate of fruit loss in cold storage.
- Intervention effect Deficit irrigation had the least effect on fruit quality.
- Intervention effect Deficit irrigation reduced water use by 2.5 ML·ha −1 per season compared with full irrigation.
- Recommendation The authors favor deficit irrigation to maintain yield with less water.