Abstract
Abstract Fourteen-year-old ‘McIntosh’/M 26 apple trees ( Malus domestica Borkh.) were deblossomed, pruned, or deblossomed and pruned, and separated into different shoot and leaf types after harvest. Both deblossoming and pruning increased shoot growth; the former by increasing shoot numbers and the latter by increasing mean shoot length. In spite of differences in total shoot growth, there were no differences in the relative proportions of the 3 shoot types. Treatment did not affect total leaf area, but both deblossoming and pruning increased the proportion of shoot leaves with corresponding decreases in spur leaves.
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Claims 6
Claim · model-written summary
Deblossoming increased shoot growth of McIntosh apple trees, by increasing shoot numbers.
- Taxon
- apple trees
Malus domesticae0 - Material
- ‘McIntosh’/M 26e0
- Treatment
- deblossominge1
- Outcome
- shoot growthe1
- Direction
- increasede1
- Qualifier
- by increasing shoot numberse1
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Fourteen-year-old ‘McIntosh’/M 26 apple trees ( Malus domestica Borkh.) were deblossomed, pruned, or deblossomed and pruned”
e1“Both deblossoming and pruning increased shoot growth; the former by increasing shoot numbers and the latter by increasing mean shoot length”
Claim · model-written summary
Pruning increased shoot growth of McIntosh apple trees, by increasing mean shoot length.
- Taxon
- apple treesMalus domesticae0
- Material
- ‘McIntosh’/M 26e0
- Treatment
- pruninge1
- Outcome
- shoot growthe1
- Direction
- increasede1
- Qualifier
- by increasing mean shoot lengthe1
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Fourteen-year-old ‘McIntosh’/M 26 apple trees ( Malus domestica Borkh.) were deblossomed, pruned, or deblossomed and pruned”
e1“Both deblossoming and pruning increased shoot growth; the former by increasing shoot numbers and the latter by increasing mean shoot length”
Claim · model-written summary
Despite differences in total shoot growth, there were no differences in the relative proportions of the three shoot types.
- Taxon
- apple treesMalus domesticae0
- Outcome
- relative proportions of the 3 shoot typese1
- Direction
- no differencese1
Not reportedTreatmentComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Fourteen-year-old ‘McIntosh’/M 26 apple trees ( Malus domestica Borkh.) were deblossomed, pruned, or deblossomed and pruned”
e1“In spite of differences in total shoot growth, there were no differences in the relative proportions of the 3 shoot types”
Claim · model-written summary
Treatment did not affect total leaf area.
- Taxon
- apple treesMalus domesticae0
- Treatment
- Treatmente1
- Outcome
- total leaf areae1
- Direction
- did not affecte1
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Fourteen-year-old ‘McIntosh’/M 26 apple trees ( Malus domestica Borkh.) were deblossomed, pruned, or deblossomed and pruned”
e1“Treatment did not affect total leaf area”
Claim · model-written summary
Both deblossoming and pruning increased the proportion of shoot leaves.
- Taxon
- apple treesMalus domesticae0
- Treatment
- deblossoming and pruninge1
- Outcome
- the proportion of shoot leavese1
- Direction
- increasede1
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Fourteen-year-old ‘McIntosh’/M 26 apple trees ( Malus domestica Borkh.) were deblossomed, pruned, or deblossomed and pruned”
e1“both deblossoming and pruning increased the proportion of shoot leaves with corresponding decreases in spur leaves”
Claim · model-written summary
Both deblossoming and pruning decreased the proportion of spur leaves, correspondingly.
- Taxon
- apple treesMalus domesticae0
- Treatment
- deblossoming and pruninge1
- Outcome
- spur leavese1
- Direction
- decreasese1
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Fourteen-year-old ‘McIntosh’/M 26 apple trees ( Malus domestica Borkh.) were deblossomed, pruned, or deblossomed and pruned”
e1“both deblossoming and pruning increased the proportion of shoot leaves with corresponding decreases in spur leaves”
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