Claim · model-written summary
Low foliar damage had little effect on fruit size or quality.
- Taxon
- apple
Malus domesticat0 - Treatment
- low levels of foliar damagee0
- Outcome
- fruit size or qualitye0
- Direction
- little effecte0
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Verbatim
t0“apple”
e0“low levels of foliar damage have little effect on fruit size or quality”
Title
S.A. Bound European Journal of Horticultural Science 2021. doi:10.17660/ejhs.2021/86.3.6
Other claims from this paper (10)
- Intervention effect Light to moderate leaf damage did not significantly change fruit set or crop load.
- Intervention effect Loss of at least 75% of leaf surface reduced fruit set.
- Intervention effect Loss of at least 75% of leaf surface affected fruit quality.
- Intervention effect Complete defoliation through three weeks after full bloom caused very low or absent fruit set.
- Intervention effect From nine weeks after full bloom, leaf damage did not affect crop load.
- Intervention effect Terminal shoot leaf loss did not affect fruit set.
- Association Spur leaves were critical to fruit set early in the season, with their impact lessening from six weeks after full bloom.
- Intervention effect Leaf damage at six to twelve weeks after full bloom reduced fruit quality.
- Intervention effect High leaf damage reduced fruit size despite lower crop load.
- Mechanism The authors attribute smaller fruit after severe leaf damage to reduced carbohydrate assimilation during fruit cell division.