Claim · model-written summary
Harvesting shoots before maximum biomass to maintain quality makes tea yield sink limited.
- Taxon
- Teae0
- Organ / stage
- shootse0
- Outcome
- yields are sink-limitede0
- Qualifier
- harvested before their maximum biomass is reachede0
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Verbatim
e0“Tea yields are sink-limited as well because shoots are harvested before their maximum biomass is reached in order to maintain quality characters of made tea.”
Title
W.A. Janendra M. De Costa; A. Janaki Mohotti; Madawala A. Wijeratne Brazilian Journal of Plant Physiology 2007. doi:10.1590/s1677-04202007000400005
Other claims from this paper (9)
- Observation Tea photosynthetic apparatus and processes are adapted to shade.
- Observation Tea maximum light saturated photosynthetic rates are below the C3 plant average.
- Observation High light intensities cause photoinhibition in tea.
- Mechanism These photosynthetic processes restrict tea source capacity.
- Association Air temperature is positively related to tea shoot initiation and extension without water deficits.
- Association Saturation vapour pressure deficit is negatively related to tea shoot initiation and extension without water deficits.
- Association During dry periods beyond a soil water deficit threshold, tea shoot initiation and extension decline with decreasing shoot water potential.
- Intervention effect Tea yields respond significantly to irrigation during dry periods.
- Recommendation The authors propose irrigation to increase tea productivity during dry periods.