Abstract
Cauliflower cultivars ‘Snowball Y’ and ‘Polar Express’ were defoliated every week by 0, 8, 18, 36, and 58% during the interval of growth from transplantation to head initiation (Period 1); from head initiation to harvest (Period 2); or from transplantation to harvest (Period 3). Leaf area at harvest, head weight, and proportion of harvested heads with a diameter of at least 10 cm decreased as the level of defoliation increased. Plants defoliated during Periods 2 and 3 were, in general, more seriously affected than plants defoliated during Period 1. Estimates of the number of cabbage looper equivalents needed to reduce head weight by 1% were higher for plants defoliated during Period 1 compared with plants damaged during Periods 2 or 3.
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Claims 5
Claim · model-written summary
Leaf area at harvest decreased as defoliation increased.
- Taxon
- Cauliflower
Brassica oleracea var. botrytist0 - Treatment
- level of defoliatione0
- Outcome
- Leaf area at harveste0
- Direction
- decreasede0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Leaf area at harvest, head weight, and proportion of harvested heads with a diameter of at least 10 cm decreased as the level of defoliation increased.”
t0“Cauliflower”
Claim · model-written summary
head weight decreased as defoliation increased.
- Taxon
- CauliflowerBrassica oleracea var. botrytist0
- Treatment
- level of defoliatione0
- Outcome
- head weighte0
- Direction
- decreasede0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Leaf area at harvest, head weight, and proportion of harvested heads with a diameter of at least 10 cm decreased as the level of defoliation increased.”
t0“Cauliflower”
Claim · model-written summary
proportion of harvested heads with a diameter of at least 10 cm decreased as defoliation increased.
- Taxon
- CauliflowerBrassica oleracea var. botrytist0
- Treatment
- level of defoliatione0
- Outcome
- proportion of harvested heads with a diameter of at least 10 cme0
- Direction
- decreasede0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Leaf area at harvest, head weight, and proportion of harvested heads with a diameter of at least 10 cm decreased as the level of defoliation increased.”
t0“Cauliflower”
Claim · model-written summary
Defoliation in Periods 2 and 3 affected cauliflower more seriously than in Period 1.
- Taxon
- CauliflowerBrassica oleracea var. botrytist0
- Treatment
- Periods 2 and 3e0
- Outcome
- more seriously affectede0
- Direction
- more seriously affectede0
- Comparator
- Period 1e0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Plants defoliated during Periods 2 and 3 were, in general, more seriously affected than plants defoliated during Period 1.”
t0“Cauliflower”
Claim · model-written summary
More cabbage looper equivalents were needed for a 1% head-weight reduction in Period 1 than in Periods 2 or 3.
- Taxon
- CauliflowerBrassica oleracea var. botrytist0
- Organ / stage
- Period 1e0
- Interactor
- cabbage looper
Trichoplusia nie0pest - Outcome
- number of cabbage looper equivalents needed to reduce head weight by 1%e0
- Direction
- highere0
- Comparator
- Periods 2 or 3e0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Estimates of the number of cabbage looper equivalents needed to reduce head weight by 1% were higher for plants defoliated during Period 1 compared with plants damaged during Periods 2 or 3.”
t0“Cauliflower”