Claim · model-written summary
Growing environment, planting date, cultivar and their interactions significantly affected all cauliflower parameters.
- Taxon
- Cauliflower
Brassica oleracea var. botrytist0 - Outcome
- all parameterse1
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Verbatim
t0“Cauliflower”
e1“Field environment, planting date, cultivar, and their interactions were found to be significant for all parameters (p < 0.05)”
Title
Ajay Dhukuchhu; Ozkan Kaya; Harlene Hatterman-Valenti Horticulturae 2026. doi:10.3390/horticulturae12030318
Other claims from this paper (19)
- Intervention effect Open-field production gave higher cauliflower yields than high tunnels.
- Intervention effect Open-field production shortened cauliflower maturity compared with high tunnels.
- Intervention effect Early transplanting on 10 July gave a higher cauliflower yield.
- Intervention effect Early transplanting on 10 July gave a larger cauliflower curd size.
- Intervention effect Delaying planting to 10 August reduced cauliflower yield by about 49%.
- Intervention effect Delaying planting to 10 August reduced cauliflower curd diameter by about 24%.
- Observation Flame Star, Snow Crown and Cheddar were the highest-yielding cauliflower cultivars overall.
- Observation Vitaverde performed the poorest among the cauliflower cultivars.
- Observation Flame Star showed exceptional cauliflower productivity (1528 g) under early planting.
- Observation Flame Star had a curd diameter of 19.4 cm under early planting.
- Intervention effect Late planting decreased cauliflower root biomass by about 38%.
- Intervention effect High tunnels gave greater stomatal conductance and transpiration in cauliflower.
- Intervention effect Open-field cauliflower plants had higher water-use efficiency.
- Intervention effect Early July plantings maintained superior photosynthetic performance compared with later schedules in cauliflower.
- Observation Yield and curd diameter of cauliflower were strongly related (r = 0.94).
- Observation Fresh root weight of cauliflower was correlated with the integrated trait set (r = 0.62).
- Intervention effect Early planting gave up to 108% yield advantage over delayed schedules in cauliflower.
- Recommendation Open-field cultivation with early July planting and high-performing cultivars optimized cauliflower production.
- Intervention effect Early planting strategies were the most effective approach for cauliflower.