Abstract
The labor and cost of runner (stolon) removal has slowed the adoption of plasticulture systems for strawberries in northern regions of North America. To provide adequate growing time, planting must occur earlier in the north than in the fall-planted southern region and, as a result, stolons (runners) are produced due to the warm, long-day conditions of summer. Runners are undesirable in plasticulture systems because they interfere with spraying and harvest, reduce marketable yield and are expensive to remove by hand. Prohexadione-calcium (Apogee ® ) is a gibberellic acid synthesis inhibitor that can reduce shoot growth in plants. Summer-planted 'Honeoye' strawberries grown in a plasticulture system in Maine, were treated with foliar sprays of prohexadione-calcium one, two or three times, approximately two weeks apart, at rates of 50 ppm, 100 ppm or 200 ppm, beginning when runner development was first noticed, or had runners removed by hand. The higher rates and doses of prohexadione-calcium in this trial provided the greatest inhibition of runner development and the highest marketable yield. Increasing rates and doses also tended to increase leaf number, reduce petiole and runner internode length, and reduce plant dry weights. Fruit size tended to be reduced under the highest number of sprays. Foliar sprays of prohexadione-calcium at 100-200 ppm appears to provide an effective means to reduce runner plant production for summer-planted strawberries grown in plasticulture.
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Claims 7
Claim · model-written summary
Higher prohexadione-calcium rates and spray numbers gave the greatest inhibition of strawberry runner development.
- Taxon
- STRAWBERRIESt0
- Treatment
- higher rates and doses of prohexadione-calciume0
- Outcome
- runner developmente0
- Direction
- greatest inhibitione0
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e0“The higher rates and doses of prohexadione-calcium in this trial provided the greatest inhibition of runner development and the highest marketable yield.”
t0“STRAWBERRIES”
Claim · model-written summary
Higher prohexadione-calcium rates and spray numbers gave the highest marketable yield.
- Taxon
- STRAWBERRIESt0
- Treatment
- higher rates and doses of prohexadione-calciume0
- Outcome
- marketable yielde0
- Direction
- higheste0
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Verbatim
e0“The higher rates and doses of prohexadione-calcium in this trial provided the greatest inhibition of runner development and the highest marketable yield.”
t0“STRAWBERRIES”
Claim · model-written summary
Increasing prohexadione-calcium rates and spray numbers tended to increase strawberry leaf number.
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e0“Increasing rates and doses also tended to increase leaf number, reduce petiole and runner internode length, and reduce plant dry weights.”
e1“rates and doses of prohexadione-calcium in this trial”
t0“STRAWBERRIES”
Claim · model-written summary
Increasing prohexadione-calcium rates and spray numbers tended to reduce strawberry petiole and runner internode length.
- Taxon
- STRAWBERRIESt0
- Treatment
- prohexadione-calciume1
- Outcome
- petiole and runner internode lengthe0
- Direction
- reducee0
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Verbatim
e0“Increasing rates and doses also tended to increase leaf number, reduce petiole and runner internode length, and reduce plant dry weights.”
e1“rates and doses of prohexadione-calcium in this trial”
t0“STRAWBERRIES”
Claim · model-written summary
Increasing prohexadione-calcium rates and spray numbers tended to reduce strawberry plant dry weight.
Not reportedComparator
Verbatim
e0“Increasing rates and doses also tended to increase leaf number, reduce petiole and runner internode length, and reduce plant dry weights.”
e1“rates and doses of prohexadione-calcium in this trial”
t0“STRAWBERRIES”
Claim · model-written summary
Strawberry fruit size tended to decline with the greatest number of prohexadione-calcium sprays.
- Taxon
- STRAWBERRIESt0
- Treatment
- foliar sprays of prohexadione-calciume1
- Outcome
- Fruit sizee0
- Direction
- reducede0
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Verbatim
e0“Fruit size tended to be reduced under the highest number of sprays.”
e1“foliar sprays of prohexadione-calcium”
t0“STRAWBERRIES”
Claim · model-written summary
The authors conclude that 100–200 ppm foliar prohexadione-calcium effectively reduces runner plant production in summer-planted plasticulture strawberries.
- Taxon
- strawberries
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Fragaria ×ananassae0 - Treatment
- Foliar sprays of prohexadione-calcium at 100-200 ppme0
- Outcome
- reduce runner plant productione0
- Direction
- reducee0
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Verbatim
e0“Foliar sprays of prohexadione-calcium at 100-200 ppm appears to provide an effective means to reduce runner plant production for summer-planted strawberries grown in plasticulture.”
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