Abstract
Abstract The growth retardants, CCC and Alar, were compared for their effects on fruit set and fruit quality of apple. Early season sprays were applied to ‘Golden Delicious’ and midsummer applications were made on ‘Idared’. Pre-bloom sprays of Alar increased fruit set on ‘Golden Delicious’. Pre-bloom applications of CCC and post-bloom applications of Alar tended to reduce set. Neither chemical influenced fruit size, flesh firmness or percent soluble solids of ‘Golden Delicious’ at the concentration used in this study. Pre-bloom sprays of both retardants increased the severity of fruit russet on this cultivar; post-bloom sprays did not affect russet. On ‘Idared’, Alar reduced fruit size and increased red color; it also increased flesh firmness at harvest but not after storage to March. CCC did not affect any measured characteristic of ‘Idared’ apples.
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Claims 11
Claim · model-written summary
Pre-bloom Alar increased fruit set in Golden Delicious.
- Taxon
- apple
Malus domesticat0 - Material
- Golden Deliciouse0
- Treatment
- Pre-bloom sprays of Alare0
- Outcome
- fruit sete0
- Direction
- increasede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Pre-bloom sprays of Alar increased fruit set on ‘Golden Delicious’.”
t0“Apple1”
Claim · model-written summary
Pre-bloom CCC tended to reduce fruit set.
- Taxon
- appleMalus domesticat0
- Treatment
- Pre-bloom applications of CCCe0
- Outcome
- sete0
- Direction
- reducee0
- Qualifier
- tended toe0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Pre-bloom applications of CCC and post-bloom applications of Alar tended to reduce set.”
t0“Apple1”
Claim · model-written summary
Post-bloom Alar tended to reduce fruit set.
- Taxon
- appleMalus domesticat0
- Treatment
- post-bloom applications of Alare0
- Outcome
- sete0
- Direction
- reducee0
- Qualifier
- tended toe0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Pre-bloom applications of CCC and post-bloom applications of Alar tended to reduce set.”
t0“Apple1”
Claim · model-written summary
Neither retardant changed fruit size, flesh firmness or soluble solids in Golden Delicious at the tested concentration.
- Taxon
- appleMalus domesticat0
- Material
- Golden Deliciouse0
- Treatment
- Neither chemicale0
- Outcome
- fruit size, flesh firmness or percent soluble solidse0
- Direction
- Neither chemical influencede0
- Qualifier
- at the concentration used in this studye0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Neither chemical influenced fruit size, flesh firmness or percent soluble solids of ‘Golden Delicious’ at the concentration used in this study.”
t0“Apple1”
Claim · model-written summary
Pre-bloom sprays of both retardants increased Golden Delicious fruit russet severity.
- Taxon
- appleMalus domesticat0
- Treatment
- Pre-bloom sprays of both retardantse0
- Outcome
- severity of fruit russete0
- Direction
- increasede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Pre-bloom sprays of both retardants increased the severity of fruit russet on this cultivar; post-bloom sprays did not affect russet.”
t0“Apple1”
Claim · model-written summary
Post-bloom sprays did not affect fruit russet.
- Taxon
- appleMalus domesticat0
- Treatment
- post-bloom sprayse0
- Outcome
- russete0
- Direction
- did not affecte0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Pre-bloom sprays of both retardants increased the severity of fruit russet on this cultivar; post-bloom sprays did not affect russet.”
t0“Apple1”
Claim · model-written summary
Alar reduced Idared fruit size.
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“On ‘Idared’, Alar reduced fruit size and increased red color; it also increased flesh firmness at harvest but not after storage to March.”
t0“Apple1”
Claim · model-written summary
Alar increased Idared red color.
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“On ‘Idared’, Alar reduced fruit size and increased red color; it also increased flesh firmness at harvest but not after storage to March.”
t0“Apple1”
Claim · model-written summary
Alar increased Idared flesh firmness at harvest.
- Taxon
- appleMalus domesticat0
- Material
- Idarede0
- Treatment
- Alare0
- Outcome
- flesh firmnesse0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Qualifier
- at harveste0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“On ‘Idared’, Alar reduced fruit size and increased red color; it also increased flesh firmness at harvest but not after storage to March.”
t0“Apple1”
Claim · model-written summary
Alar did not increase Idared flesh firmness after storage to March.
- Taxon
- appleMalus domesticat0
- Material
- Idarede0
- Treatment
- Alare0
- Outcome
- flesh firmnesse0
- Direction
- not after storage to Marche0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“On ‘Idared’, Alar reduced fruit size and increased red color; it also increased flesh firmness at harvest but not after storage to March.”
t0“Apple1”
Claim · model-written summary
CCC did not affect measured Idared apple characteristics.
- Taxon
- applesMalus domesticae0
- Material
- Idarede0
- Treatment
- CCCe0
- Outcome
- any measured characteristice0
- Direction
- did not affecte0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“CCC did not affect any measured characteristic of ‘Idared’ apples.”
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