Abstract
Abstract On well pollinated kiwifruit vines ( Actinidia deliciosa (A. Chev.) C. F. Liang et A. R. Ferguson var. deliciosa cv. Hayward) a reduction in fruit numbers by flower thinning increased mean fruit weight. Thinning reduced total yield and yield of fruit in the preferred export sizes (i.e., fruit weight >90 g). Reducing fruit numbers to less than 330 per metre of T‐bar row increased yield of fruit in the two large size grades only (> 132 g). Flower production was less on vines that had a high crop load the previous season. This reduction was primarily because of fewer flowers per flowering shoot. Percentage bud break and the proportion of non‐flowering shoots were not affected. Up to threefold differences in fruit numbers per vine were produced by the thinning treatments but this did not significantly affect vegetative growth or the soluble solids content of fruit near harvest.
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Claims 11
Claim · model-written summary
Flower thinning increased mean kiwifruit fruit weight.
- Taxon
- Actinidia deliciosa
Actinidia deliciosae1 - Material
- cv. Haywarde1
- Treatment
- flower thinninge2
- Outcome
- mean fruit weighte2
- Direction
- increasede2
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e1“Actinidia deliciosa (A. Chev.) C. F. Liang et A. R. Ferguson var. deliciosa cv. Hayward”
e2“a reduction in fruit numbers by flower thinning increased mean fruit weight”
Claim · model-written summary
Thinning reduced total yield of kiwifruit.
- Taxon
- Actinidia deliciosaActinidia deliciosae1
- Treatment
- thinninge3
- Outcome
- total yielde3
- Direction
- reducede3
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e1“Actinidia deliciosa (A. Chev.) C. F. Liang et A. R. Ferguson var. deliciosa cv. Hayward”
e3“Thinning reduced total yield and yield of fruit in the preferred export sizes”
Claim · model-written summary
Thinning reduced the yield of fruit in the preferred export sizes (fruit weight >90 g).
- Taxon
- Actinidia deliciosaActinidia deliciosae1
- Treatment
- thinninge3
- Outcome
- yield of fruit in the preferred export sizese3
- Direction
- reducede3
- Qualifier
- fruit weight >90 ge3
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e1“Actinidia deliciosa (A. Chev.) C. F. Liang et A. R. Ferguson var. deliciosa cv. Hayward”
e3“Thinning reduced total yield and yield of fruit in the preferred export sizes (i.e., fruit weight >90 g)”
Claim · model-written summary
Reducing fruit numbers to less than 330 per metre increased yield of fruit in the two large size grades only.
- Taxon
- Actinidia deliciosaActinidia deliciosae1
- Treatment
- Reducing fruit numbers to less than 330 per metree5
- Outcome
- yield of fruite4
- Direction
- increasede4
- Qualifier
- in the two large size grades onlye4
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e1“Actinidia deliciosa (A. Chev.) C. F. Liang et A. R. Ferguson var. deliciosa cv. Hayward”
e4“increased yield of fruit in the two large size grades only (> 132 g)”
e5“Reducing fruit numbers to less than 330 per metre”
Claim · model-written summary
Vines with a high crop load the previous season had less flower production.
- Taxon
- Actinidia deliciosaActinidia deliciosae1
- Treatment
- high crop loade7
- Outcome
- Flower productione7
- Direction
- lesse7
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e1“Actinidia deliciosa (A. Chev.) C. F. Liang et A. R. Ferguson var. deliciosa cv. Hayward”
e7“Flower production was less on vines that had a high crop load the previous season”
Claim · model-written summary
The reduction in flower production was primarily due to fewer flowers per flowering shoot.
- Taxon
- Actinidia deliciosaActinidia deliciosae1
- Outcome
- reductione2
- Qualifier
- fewer flowers per flowering shoote2
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e1“Actinidia deliciosa (A. Chev.) C. F. Liang et A. R. Ferguson var. deliciosa cv. Hayward”
e2“This reduction was primarily because of fewer flowers per flowering shoot”
Claim · model-written summary
Percentage bud break was not affected.
- Taxon
- Actinidia deliciosaActinidia deliciosae1
- Outcome
- Percentage bud breake2
- Direction
- not affectede2
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e1“Actinidia deliciosa (A. Chev.) C. F. Liang et A. R. Ferguson var. deliciosa cv. Hayward”
e2“Percentage bud break and the proportion of non‐flowering shoots were not affected”
Claim · model-written summary
The proportion of non-flowering shoots was not affected.
- Taxon
- Actinidia deliciosaActinidia deliciosae1
- Outcome
- proportion of non‐flowering shootse2
- Direction
- not affectede2
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e1“Actinidia deliciosa (A. Chev.) C. F. Liang et A. R. Ferguson var. deliciosa cv. Hayward”
e2“Percentage bud break and the proportion of non‐flowering shoots were not affected”
Claim · model-written summary
Thinning treatments did not significantly affect vegetative growth.
- Taxon
- Actinidia deliciosaActinidia deliciosae1
- Treatment
- thinning treatmentse3
- Outcome
- vegetative growthe3
- Direction
- not significantly affecte3
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e1“Actinidia deliciosa (A. Chev.) C. F. Liang et A. R. Ferguson var. deliciosa cv. Hayward”
e3“Up to threefold differences in fruit numbers per vine were produced by the thinning treatments but this did not significantly affect vegetative growth or the soluble solids content of fruit near harvest”
Claim · model-written summary
Thinning treatments did not significantly affect the soluble solids content of fruit near harvest.
- Taxon
- Actinidia deliciosaActinidia deliciosae1
- Treatment
- thinning treatmentse3
- Outcome
- soluble solids content of fruite3
- Direction
- not significantly affecte3
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e1“Actinidia deliciosa (A. Chev.) C. F. Liang et A. R. Ferguson var. deliciosa cv. Hayward”
e3“Up to threefold differences in fruit numbers per vine were produced by the thinning treatments but this did not significantly affect vegetative growth or the soluble solids content of fruit near harvest”
Claim · model-written summary
Thinning treatments produced up to threefold differences in fruit numbers per vine.
- Taxon
- Actinidia deliciosaActinidia deliciosae1
- Treatment
- thinning treatmentse3
- Outcome
- fruit numbers per vinee3
- Value
- Up to threefolde3
Not reportedComparatorDirection
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e1“Actinidia deliciosa (A. Chev.) C. F. Liang et A. R. Ferguson var. deliciosa cv. Hayward”
e3“Up to threefold differences in fruit numbers per vine were produced by the thinning treatments but this did not significantly affect vegetative growth or the soluble solids content of fruit near harvest”
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