Abstract
Abstract Shoot growth and water consumption of potted Golden Delicious trees were studied under a controlled environment with respect to two lewels of air humidity, soil moisture content, and the availability of nitrogen. In the high‐N treatment, high air humidity and high soil moisture content promoted growth; at the low‐N level, growth did not respond to the treatments. Water consumption was enhanced at low air humidity but was not afiected by the moisture centent of the soil. In potted fruit&earing Cox's Orange Pippin trees exposed to two levels of air humidity, low humidity reduced shoot growth and, but to a much lower degree, fruit growth. It increased rhe spur‐leaf levels of N, Mg, and, for part of the experimental period, K and Ca, but affected hardly the mineral level in fruits. It is concluded that the amount of the minerals reaching the fruit is determined by the relative im‐portance of the xylem influx during the first few weeks after fruit set and the phloem influx occurring throughout. It is suggested that the xylem supply of the various minerals does not differ greatly; it is probably the main way for the influx of Ca, but for N, K, Mg, and P the phloem influx is com‐pletely dominating.
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Claims 8
Claim · model-written summary
High humidity and soil moisture promoted growth at high nitrogen.
- Taxon
- Apple
Malus domesticat0 - Treatment
- high air humidity and high soil moisture contente0
- Outcome
- growthe0
- Direction
- promotede0
- Qualifier
- high‐N treatmente0
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e0“In the high‐N treatment, high air humidity and high soil moisture content promoted growth”
t0“Apple”
Claim · model-written summary
Growth did not respond to humidity or soil moisture at low nitrogen.
- Taxon
- AppleMalus domesticat0
- Treatment
- treatmentse0
- Outcome
- growthe0
- Direction
- did not responde0
- Qualifier
- low‐N levele0
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e0“at the low‐N level, growth did not respond to the treatments”
t0“Apple”
Claim · model-written summary
Low humidity increased water consumption.
- Taxon
- AppleMalus domesticat0
- Treatment
- low air humiditye0
- Outcome
- Water consumptione0
- Direction
- enhancede0
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Verbatim
e0“Water consumption was enhanced at low air humidity”
t0“Apple”
Claim · model-written summary
Soil moisture did not affect water consumption.
- Taxon
- AppleMalus domesticat0
- Treatment
- moisture centent of the soile0
- Outcome
- Water consumptione1
- Direction
- not afiectede0
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Verbatim
e0“was not afiected by the moisture centent of the soil”
t0“Apple”
e1“Water consumption was enhanced at low air humidity”
Claim · model-written summary
Low humidity reduced shoot growth in fruit bearing trees.
- Taxon
- AppleMalus domesticat0
- Treatment
- low humiditye0
- Outcome
- shoot growthe0
- Direction
- reducede0
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Verbatim
e0“low humidity reduced shoot growth”
t0“Apple”
Claim · model-written summary
Low humidity reduced fruit growth to a lesser degree.
- Taxon
- AppleMalus domesticat0
- Treatment
- low humiditye0
- Outcome
- fruit growthe0
- Direction
- reducede0
- Qualifier
- to a much lower degreee0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“low humidity reduced shoot growth and, but to a much lower degree, fruit growth”
t0“Apple”
Claim · model-written summary
Low humidity increased spur leaf mineral levels.
- Taxon
- AppleMalus domesticat0
- Treatment
- low humiditye1
- Outcome
- spur‐leaf levels of N, Mge0
- Direction
- increasede0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“It increased rhe spur‐leaf levels of N, Mg, and, for part of the experimental period, K and Ca”
t0“Apple”
e1“low humidity reduced shoot growth”
Claim · model-written summary
Humidity hardly affected fruit mineral levels.
- Taxon
- AppleMalus domesticat0
- Treatment
- low humiditye1
- Outcome
- mineral level in fruitse0
- Direction
- affected hardlye0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“but affected hardly the mineral level in fruits”
t0“Apple”
e1“low humidity reduced shoot growth”
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