Claim · model-written summary
Irrigation lowered winter injury.
- Taxon
- peach
Prunus persicae0 - Treatment
- Irrigatione0
- Outcome
- winter injurye0
- Direction
- lowerede0
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Verbatim
e0“Irrigation improved growth of peach trees, lowered levels of winter injury”
t0“Long-term Influence of Irrigation and Tree Density on Growth, Survival, and Production of Peach”
Title
Long-term Influence of Irrigation and Tree Density on Growth, Survival, and Production of Peach
R. E. C. Layne; C. S. Tan Journal of the American Society for Horticultural Science 1984. doi:10.21273/jashs.109.6.795
Other claims from this paper (9)
- Intervention effect Irrigation improved peach tree growth.
- Intervention effect Irrigation lowered perennial canker.
- Intervention effect Irrigation promoted tree survival.
- Intervention effect Irrigation increased annual and cumulative marketable yields, especially in later years.
- Intervention effect Tree density did not affect canker, winter injury or tree survival.
- Intervention effect Reduced tree spacing increased total growth per hectare.
- Intervention effect Reduced tree spacing increased annual and cumulative marketable yields.
- Observation Irrigation and density usually had additive effects on growth and fruit production.
- Intervention effect The most productive system yielded 179 tonnes per hectare over eight years versus 74 for the check.