Abstract
An experiment was undertaken to improve the fruit yield and quality of monsoon flushed guava crop by regulating flowering of spring-flushed crop using varying shoot pruning intensities (25 to 75%) under subtropical condition of Western Uttar Pradesh. Summer pruning of spring flushed bearing shoot of current season was found significantly effective in increasing the production of superior quality fruits in winter guava. With the increase in summer pruning severity, yield and quality of winter guava was improved significantly up to 33% pruning intensity. On the other hand, rainy season crop showed almost a reverse trend and fruit yield was inversely related to severity of pruning. The maximum yield in rainy season was recorded with unpruned shoot trees, while fruit yield was significantly reduced in trees receiving severe pruning. However, the fruit quality of rainy season guava was improved maximum with moderate pruning (33%). Among all the shoot pruning treatments, the maximum total cumulative yield (57.30 kg/tree) and better quality fruits of both the seasons were obtained with moderately pruned trees. Hence, moderate pruning of bearing shoot of current season's growth just before bud opening in summer was significantly most effective in improving the production of monsoon flushed crop and fruit quality of spring and monsoon flushed crops in guava.
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Claim · model-written summary
Summer pruning increased production of superior winter guava fruits significantly.
- Taxon
- guava
Psidium guajavae0 - Treatment
- Summer pruninge0
- Outcome
- production of superior quality fruits in winter guavae0
- Direction
- increasinge0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Summer pruning of spring flushed bearing shoot of current season was found significantly effective in increasing the production of superior quality fruits in winter guava”
Claim · model-written summary
Winter guava yield improved with pruning severity up to 33%.
- Taxon
- guavaPsidium guajavae0
- Treatment
- summer pruning severitye0
- Outcome
- yielde0
- Direction
- improvede0
- Qualifier
- up to 33% pruning intensitye0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“With the increase in summer pruning severity, yield and quality of winter guava was improved significantly up to 33% pruning intensity”
Claim · model-written summary
Winter guava quality improved with pruning severity up to 33%.
- Taxon
- guavaPsidium guajavae0
- Treatment
- summer pruning severitye0
- Outcome
- qualitye0
- Direction
- improvede0
- Qualifier
- up to 33% pruning intensitye0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“With the increase in summer pruning severity, yield and quality of winter guava was improved significantly up to 33% pruning intensity”
Claim · model-written summary
Rainy-season guava fruit yield was inversely related to pruning severity.
- Taxon
- guavaPsidium guajavat0
- Treatment
- pruninge0
- Outcome
- fruit yielde0
- Direction
- inversely relatede0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“fruit yield was inversely related to severity of pruning”
t0“guava”
Claim · model-written summary
Rainy-season yield was greatest in unpruned trees.
- Taxon
- guavaPsidium guajavat0
- Treatment
- unpruned shoot treese0
- Outcome
- yield in rainy seasone0
- Direction
- maximume0
Not reportedMaterial
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The maximum yield in rainy season was recorded with unpruned shoot trees”
t0“guava”
Claim · model-written summary
Severe pruning significantly reduced rainy-season fruit yield.
- Taxon
- guavaPsidium guajavat0
- Treatment
- severe pruninge0
- Outcome
- fruit yielde0
- Direction
- reducede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“fruit yield was significantly reduced in trees receiving severe pruning”
t0“guava”
Claim · model-written summary
Moderate 33% pruning maximized rainy-season guava fruit quality.
- Taxon
- guavaPsidium guajavae0
- Treatment
- moderate pruning (33%)e0
- Outcome
- fruit quality of rainy season guavae0
- Direction
- improved maximume0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“fruit quality of rainy season guava was improved maximum with moderate pruning (33%)”
Claim · model-written summary
Moderate pruning gave the highest cumulative yield of 57.30 kg/tree.
- Taxon
- guavaPsidium guajavat0
- Treatment
- moderately pruned treese0
- Outcome
- total cumulative yielde0
- Direction
- maximume0
- Value
- 57.30 kg/treee0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“the maximum total cumulative yield (57.30 kg/tree) and better quality fruits of both the seasons were obtained with moderately pruned trees”
t0“guava”
Claim · model-written summary
Moderate pruning gave better fruit quality in both seasons.
- Taxon
- guavaPsidium guajavat0
- Treatment
- moderately pruned treese0
- Outcome
- quality fruits of both the seasonse0
- Direction
- bettere0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“better quality fruits of both the seasons were obtained with moderately pruned trees”
t0“guava”
Claim · model-written summary
The authors recommend moderate pruning before summer bud opening for production and quality.
- Taxon
- guavaPsidium guajavae0
- Outcome
- moderate pruning of bearing shoot of current season's growth just before bud opening in summere0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“moderate pruning of bearing shoot of current season's growth just before bud opening in summer was significantly most effective in improving the production of monsoon flushed crop and fruit quality of spring and monsoon flushed crops in guava”
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