Claim · model-written summary
Ethephon generally increased transplant dry matter content.
- Taxon
- tomato
Solanum lycopersicume0 - Treatment
- Ethephon treatmente0
- Outcome
- dry matter contente0
- Direction
- increasede0
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Verbatim
e0“Ethephon treatment generally reduced the pulling force and stiffness of the tomato transplants and increased the dry matter content.”
Title
Physical Properties of Ethephon-Treated Tomato Transplants
S. R. Ghate; C. A. Jaworski; S. C. Phatak Transactions of the ASAE 1983. doi:10.13031/2013.34165
Other claims from this paper (4)
- Observation Responses to ethephon differed considerably among cultivars.
- Intervention effect Ethephon generally reduced transplant pulling force and stiffness.
- Intervention effect Ultimate tensile strength was broadly similar in treated and untreated transplants.
- Recommendation Shipping tomato transplants later than 10 to 12 days after ethephon treatment could increase harvesting and packaging damage.