Claim · model-written summary
Irrigation increased yield and fruit size of Washington navel oranges.
- Taxon
- orangese0
- Material
- ‘Washington’ navele0
- Treatment
- Supplemental subsurface irrigatione0
- Outcome
- yield and fruit sizee0
- Direction
- increasede0
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Verbatim
e0“Supplemental subsurface irrigation resulted in increased yield and fruit size of ‘Washington’ navel and ‘Owari’ satsuma oranges.”
Title
Citrus Yield and Quality as Affected by Subsurface Irrigation1
Roysell J. Constantin; Ralph T. Brown; Harry J. Braud Journal of the American Society for Horticultural Science 1975. doi:10.21273/jashs.100.5.453
Other claims from this paper (7)
- Intervention effect Irrigation increased yield and fruit size of Owari satsuma oranges.
- Intervention effect Irrigation increased peel thickness slightly but significantly through larger fruit size.
- Intervention effect Supplemental moisture reduced juice content of Owari satsuma.
- Intervention effect In four of six years, irrigation increased or maintained Washington navel juice content relative to control.
- Intervention effect Irrigation did not greatly affect juice pH, soluble solids or solids-to-acid ratio.
- Intervention effect Irrigation did not affect Washington navel peel color over two years.
- Intervention effect Irrigation had no effect on juice color of both orange types in 1973.