Abstract
Abstract Shoot growth as affected by plant size at planting, peat application in the planting hole, pruning, drip-irrigation and, for apple, specific apple replant disease (SARD) was investigated in apple (cv. Elstar) and blackcurrant (cvs Ben Lomond and Ben Nevis), using a multifactorial design. In the first year after planting, peat application and drip-irrigation enhanced shoot growth in both species, with a further interactional increase when both treatments were applied. The extension growth of apple, in contrast to blackcurrant, was positively related to plant size, and the strength of the relationship was distinctly improved when growth conditions were good. Pruning had only small effects on total shoot growth, with a trend towards an increase when growth conditions were poor.
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Claims 9
Claim · model-written summary
Peat application enhanced first-year shoot growth in apple.
- Taxon
- apple
Malus domesticae1 - Material
- cv. Elstare1
- Treatment
- peat applicatione0
- Outcome
- shoot growthe0
- Direction
- enhancede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“peat application and drip-irrigation enhanced shoot growth in both species”
e1“in apple (cv. Elstar) and blackcurrant (cvs Ben Lomond and Ben Nevis)”
Claim · model-written summary
Peat application enhanced first-year shoot growth in blackcurrant.
- Taxon
- blackcurrante1
- Material
- cvs Ben Lomond and Ben Nevise1
- Treatment
- peat applicatione0
- Outcome
- shoot growthe0
- Direction
- enhancede0
Not reportedComparator
Verbatim
e0“peat application and drip-irrigation enhanced shoot growth in both species”
e1“in apple (cv. Elstar) and blackcurrant (cvs Ben Lomond and Ben Nevis)”
Claim · model-written summary
Drip irrigation enhanced first-year shoot growth in apple.
- Taxon
- appleMalus domesticae1
- Material
- cv. Elstare1
- Treatment
- drip-irrigatione0
- Outcome
- shoot growthe0
- Direction
- enhancede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“peat application and drip-irrigation enhanced shoot growth in both species”
e1“in apple (cv. Elstar) and blackcurrant (cvs Ben Lomond and Ben Nevis)”
Claim · model-written summary
Drip irrigation enhanced first-year shoot growth in blackcurrant.
- Taxon
- blackcurrante1
- Material
- cvs Ben Lomond and Ben Nevise1
- Treatment
- drip-irrigatione0
- Outcome
- shoot growthe0
- Direction
- enhancede0
Not reportedComparator
Verbatim
e0“peat application and drip-irrigation enhanced shoot growth in both species”
e1“in apple (cv. Elstar) and blackcurrant (cvs Ben Lomond and Ben Nevis)”
Claim · model-written summary
Combined peat and drip irrigation further increased shoot growth in apple.
- Taxon
- appleMalus domesticae2
- Treatment
- both treatmentse0
- Outcome
- shoot growthe1
- Direction
- increasee0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“with a further interactional increase when both treatments were applied”
e1“peat application and drip-irrigation enhanced shoot growth in both species”
e2“in apple (cv. Elstar) and blackcurrant (cvs Ben Lomond and Ben Nevis)”
Claim · model-written summary
Combined peat and drip irrigation further increased shoot growth in blackcurrant.
Not reportedComparator
Verbatim
e0“with a further interactional increase when both treatments were applied”
e1“peat application and drip-irrigation enhanced shoot growth in both species”
e2“in apple (cv. Elstar) and blackcurrant (cvs Ben Lomond and Ben Nevis)”
Claim · model-written summary
Apple extension growth was positively related to plant size, especially under good growth conditions.
- Taxon
- appleMalus domesticae0
- Material
- plant sizee0
- Outcome
- extension growthe0
- Direction
- positively relatede0
- Qualifier
- when growth conditions were goode0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The extension growth of apple, in contrast to blackcurrant, was positively related to plant size, and the strength of the relationship was distinctly improved when growth conditions were good”
Claim · model-written summary
Blackcurrant extension growth did not show the positive plant-size relation seen in apple.
Not reportedDirection
Verbatim
e0“The extension growth of apple, in contrast to blackcurrant, was positively related to plant size”
Claim · model-written summary
Pruning had only small effects on total shoot growth, trending upward under poor growth conditions.
- Taxon
- appleMalus domesticae1
- Treatment
- Pruninge0
- Outcome
- total shoot growthe0
- Direction
- increasee0
- Qualifier
- when growth conditions were poore0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Pruning had only small effects on total shoot growth, with a trend towards an increase when growth conditions were poor”
e1“in apple (cv. Elstar) and blackcurrant (cvs Ben Lomond and Ben Nevis)”
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