Claim · model-written summary
Manual topping plus pruning outperformed other methods in improving fiber uniformity and strength.
- Taxon
- cotton
Gossypium hirsutumt0 - Treatment
- manual topping plus pruninge1
- Outcome
- fiber uniformity and strengthe1
- Direction
- improvinge1
- Comparator
- other methodse1
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“late-sown cotton”
e1“manual topping plus pruning outperformed other methods in improving fiber uniformity and strength”
Title
Muhammad Abu Bakar Hayat; Fahd Rasul; Muhammad Zia Ul Haq; et al. BMC Plant Biology 2026. doi:10.1186/s12870-026-08163-z
Other claims from this paper (3)
- Intervention effect Chemical topping plus pruning increased sympodial branches by up to 38% in late-sown cotton.
- Intervention effect Chemical topping plus pruning increased seed cotton yield at higher planting density in late-sown cotton.
- Recommendation The authors recommend selecting an optimal canopy management combination according to production needs in a cotton-wheat system under late sowing.