Claim · model-written summary
Defoliation increased skin anthocyanins in Merlot, ordered FR above LR above ND.
- Taxon
- Vitis vinifera L.
Vitis viniferat0 - Material
- Merlote0
- Treatment
- Defoliatione0
- Outcome
- skin anthocyaninse0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Comparator
- FR > LR > NDe0
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Verbatim
e0“Defoliation increased skin anthocyanins in Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon in the order FR > LR > ND but significantly reduced seed flavan-3-ols mainly as a result of the reduction in catechin and epicatechin amount.”
t0“Vitis vinifera L.”
Title
Yorgos Kotseridis; Afroditi Georgiadou; Panagiotis Tikos; et al. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry 2012. doi:10.1021/jf300605j
Other claims from this paper (19)
- Intervention effect Leaf removal decreased yield per vine in Merlot.
- Intervention effect Leaf removal decreased cluster weight in Merlot.
- Intervention effect Leaf removal decreased yield per vine in Sangiovese.
- Intervention effect Leaf removal decreased cluster weight in Sangiovese.
- Intervention effect Increasing defoliation severity reduced cluster compactness in Merlot.
- Intervention effect Defoliation decreased berry number per cluster in Merlot.
- Intervention effect Berry fresh weight was unaffected by defoliation in Merlot.
- Intervention effect Berry fresh weight was unaffected by defoliation in Sangiovese.
- Intervention effect Leaf removal did not affect yield in Cabernet Sauvignon.
- Intervention effect Leaf removal restrained berry size in Cabernet Sauvignon.
- Association Seed mass followed berry mass variation except in Sangiovese.
- Intervention effect Fruit zone leaf removal did not affect must soluble solids.
- Intervention effect Fruit zone leaf removal increased titratable acidity only in Merlot.
- Intervention effect Defoliation increased skin anthocyanins in Cabernet Sauvignon, ordered FR above LR above ND.
- Intervention effect Defoliation significantly reduced seed flavan-3-ols.
- Intervention effect Full leaf removal had lower seed flavan-3-ols than no defoliation in both varieties.
- Intervention effect Lateral shoot removal gave the highest seed phenolic content in Sangiovese.
- Intervention effect Post-flowering leaf removal improved overall berry composition in Merlot.
- Intervention effect Post-flowering leaf removal improved overall berry composition in Cabernet Sauvignon.