Claim · model-written summary
Ethephon generally reduced juice soluble solids.
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Verbatim
e0“The percent soluble solids of juice was generally decreased by ethephon”
t0“`Reliance' grapes”
Title
Response of `Reliance' Table Grapes to Canopy Management and Ethephon Application
John Fitzgerald; W. Keith Patterson Journal of the American Society for Horticultural Science 1994. doi:10.21273/jashs.119.5.893
Other claims from this paper (19)
- Intervention effect Thinning advanced grape harvest by 5 to 8 days.
- Intervention effect Ethephon advanced grape harvest by 2 to 3 days.
- Intervention effect Thinning increased berry weight in 1989.
- Intervention effect Leaf removal did not affect berry weight in 1989.
- Intervention effect Ethephon did not affect berry weight in 1989.
- Intervention effect Leaf removal increased fruit L values in 1989.
- Intervention effect Leaf removal, ethephon and thinning each increased fruit L values in 1990.
- Intervention effect Leaf removal increased fruit a values in both years.
- Intervention effect Thinning increased fruit a values in 1989.
- Observation Exposed nonthinned clusters had higher b values in 1989 than 1990.
- Intervention effect Ethephon increased b values in thinned and nonthinned treatments.
- Intervention effect Leaf removal increased b values in 1990.
- Intervention effect Thinning produced more evenly colored, redder fruit.
- Intervention effect Leaf removal made fruit skin lighter and yellower.
- Intervention effect Leaf removal raised juice L, a and b values in 1990.
- Intervention effect Ethephon raised juice a value in 1989.
- Intervention effect Leaf removal raised juice b value in 1989.
- Intervention effect Leaf removal and thinning increased juice soluble solids.
- Observation Leaf removal and ethephon reduced acidity, whereas thinning raised it.