Abstract
Sweet cherry trees in many commercial California orchards have been allowed to grow excessively tall. This practice tends to elevate the bearing area with subsequent loss of much of the lower fruiting wood. Cultural and harvesting operations then become more inefficient and expensive. Height of young bearing trees can be controlled and maintained by pruning. A reduction in yield often results from pruning bearing trees and is generally proportionate to the severity of pruning. However, this reduction in yield may be partially offset by somewhat larger fruit size, more efficient cultural and harvesting operations, and slightly increased tree vigor.
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Claims 7
Claim · model-written summary
Excessive height elevates the bearing area and loses lower fruiting wood.
- Taxon
- Sweet cherry trees
Prunus aviumt0 - Outcome
- elevate the bearing area with subsequent loss of much of the lower fruiting woode0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“grow excessively tall. This practice tends to elevate the bearing area with subsequent loss of much of the lower fruiting wood”
t0“sweet cherry trees”
Claim · model-written summary
Excessive height makes cultural and harvesting operations less efficient and more expensive.
- Taxon
- Sweet cherry treesPrunus aviumt0
- Outcome
- Cultural and harvesting operationse0
- Direction
- more inefficient and expensivee0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Cultural and harvesting operations then become more inefficient and expensive”
t0“sweet cherry trees”
Claim · model-written summary
Pruning controls and maintains young bearing tree height.
- Taxon
- Sweet cherry treesPrunus aviumt0
- Treatment
- pruninge0
- Outcome
- Height of young bearing treese0
- Direction
- controlled and maintainede0
Not reportedComparator
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Verbatim
e0“Height of young bearing trees can be controlled and maintained by pruning”
t0“sweet cherry trees”
Claim · model-written summary
Pruning often reduces yield proportionally to severity.
- Taxon
- Sweet cherry treesPrunus aviumt0
- Treatment
- pruning bearing treese0
- Outcome
- yielde0
- Direction
- reductione0
- Qualifier
- proportionate to the severity of pruninge0
Not reportedComparator
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Verbatim
e0“A reduction in yield often results from pruning bearing trees and is generally proportionate to the severity of pruning”
t0“sweet cherry trees”
Claim · model-written summary
Pruning can produce somewhat larger fruit.
- Taxon
- Sweet cherry treesPrunus aviumt0
- Treatment
- pruninge1
- Outcome
- fruit sizee0
- Direction
- largere0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“this reduction in yield may be partially offset by somewhat larger fruit size”
t0“sweet cherry trees”
e1“A reduction in yield often results from pruning bearing trees”
Claim · model-written summary
Pruning can improve cultural and harvesting efficiency.
- Taxon
- Sweet cherry treesPrunus aviumt0
- Treatment
- Pruningt1
- Outcome
- cultural and harvesting operationse0
- Direction
- more efficiente0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“more efficient cultural and harvesting operations”
t0“sweet cherry trees”
t1“Pruning methods for bearing sweet cherry trees”
Claim · model-written summary
Pruning can slightly increase tree vigor.
- Taxon
- Sweet cherry treesPrunus aviumt0
- Treatment
- Pruningt1
- Outcome
- tree vigore0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Qualifier
- slightlye0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“slightly increased tree vigor”
t0“sweet cherry trees”
t1“Pruning methods for bearing sweet cherry trees”
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