Abstract
Abstract ‘Delicious’, ‘Golden Delicious’, and ‘Stayman’ apple trees ( Malus domestica Borkh.) were summer pruned in late June or mid-August. Fruit were smaller on June- or August-pruned ‘Stayman’ trees than on comparable dormant-pruned control trees. Summer pruning had little effect on the size of ‘Delicious’ and ‘Golden Delicious’ fruit. Soluble solids were suppressed within 2 weeks after summer pruning on all cultivars, but fruit firmness was unaffected. Summer pruning slowed the rate of starch disappearance from fruit flesh. Preharvest drop, severity of watercore, and bitter bit were suppressed by summer pruning. Calcium concentration of fruit flesh was not significantly increased by summer pruning. Yield, expressed as total fruit weight or number of fruit per tree, was not consistently influenced by summer pruning over a 2-year period.
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Claims 8
Claim · model-written summary
June or August pruning made Stayman fruit smaller than dormant pruning.
- Taxon
- apple trees
Malus domesticae1 - Material
- ‘Stayman’e0
- Treatment
- June- or August-prunede0
- Outcome
- Fruite0
- Direction
- smallere0
- Comparator
- dormant-pruned control treese0
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Verbatim
e0“Fruit were smaller on June- or August-pruned ‘Stayman’ trees than on comparable dormant-pruned control trees”
e1“apple trees ( Malus domestica Borkh.)”
Claim · model-written summary
Summer pruning had little effect on Delicious and Golden Delicious fruit size.
- Taxon
- apple treesMalus domesticae1
- Material
- ‘Delicious’ and ‘Golden Delicious’e0
- Treatment
- Summer pruninge0
- Outcome
- size of ‘Delicious’ and ‘Golden Delicious’ fruite0
- Direction
- little effecte0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Summer pruning had little effect on the size of ‘Delicious’ and ‘Golden Delicious’ fruit”
e1“apple trees ( Malus domestica Borkh.)”
Claim · model-written summary
Summer pruning suppressed soluble solids within two weeks.
- Taxon
- apple treesMalus domesticae1
- Treatment
- summer pruninge0
- Outcome
- Soluble solidse0
- Direction
- suppressede0
- Qualifier
- within 2 weekse0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Soluble solids were suppressed within 2 weeks after summer pruning on all cultivars”
e1“apple trees ( Malus domestica Borkh.)”
Claim · model-written summary
Summer pruning did not affect fruit firmness.
- Taxon
- apple treesMalus domesticae2
- Treatment
- Summer pruninge1
- Outcome
- fruit firmnesse0
- Direction
- unaffectede0
Not reportedComparator
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Verbatim
e0“fruit firmness was unaffected”
e1“Summer pruning slowed the rate of starch disappearance from fruit flesh”
e2“apple trees ( Malus domestica Borkh.)”
Claim · model-written summary
Summer pruning slowed starch disappearance from fruit flesh.
- Taxon
- apple treesMalus domesticae1
- Treatment
- Summer pruninge0
- Outcome
- rate of starch disappearance from fruit fleshe0
- Direction
- slowede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Summer pruning slowed the rate of starch disappearance from fruit flesh”
e1“apple trees ( Malus domestica Borkh.)”
Claim · model-written summary
Summer pruning suppressed preharvest drop, watercore severity, and bitter bit.
- Taxon
- apple treesMalus domesticae1
- Treatment
- summer pruninge0
- Outcome
- Preharvest drop, severity of watercore, and bitter bite0
- Direction
- suppressede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Preharvest drop, severity of watercore, and bitter bit were suppressed by summer pruning”
e1“apple trees ( Malus domestica Borkh.)”
Claim · model-written summary
Summer pruning did not significantly increase flesh calcium.
- Taxon
- apple treesMalus domesticae1
- Treatment
- summer pruninge0
- Outcome
- Calcium concentration of fruit fleshe0
- Direction
- not significantly increasede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Calcium concentration of fruit flesh was not significantly increased by summer pruning”
e1“apple trees ( Malus domestica Borkh.)”
Claim · model-written summary
Summer pruning did not consistently influence yield over two years.
- Taxon
- apple treesMalus domesticae1
- Treatment
- summer pruninge0
- Outcome
- Yield, expressed as total fruit weight or number of fruit per treee0
- Direction
- not consistently influencede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Yield, expressed as total fruit weight or number of fruit per tree, was not consistently influenced by summer pruning over a 2-year period”
e1“apple trees ( Malus domestica Borkh.)”
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