Claim · model-written summary
Higher defoliation levels decreased dry weight of cucumber fruits.
- Taxon
- cucumber
Cucumis sativuse1 - Treatment
- level of defoliatione0
- Outcome
- dry weight of the fruitse0
- Direction
- decreasee0
Not reportedComparator
Verbatim
e0“An increase in the level of defoliation caused an increase in accumulation of dry weight in the leaves and a decrease in the dry weight of the fruits”
e1“cucumber ( Cucumis sativus L.)”
Title
Source Limitation by Defoliation and Its Effect on Dry Matter Production and Yield of Cucumber
Denis R. Ramirez; Todd C. Wehner; Conrad H. Miller HortScience 1988. doi:10.21273/hortsci.23.4.704
Other claims from this paper (7)
- Intervention effect Defoliation significantly decreased total plant weight in cucumber relative to the fruited control.
- Intervention effect Defoliation significantly decreased fresh and dry weight of the fruits in cucumber relative to the fruited control.
- Intervention effect Higher defoliation levels increased dry weight accumulation in cucumber leaves.
- Intervention effect Defoliation of 50% or 75% was followed by an increase in carbon exchange rates measured 7 days after defoliation.
- Observation Vegetative controls had equal plant dry weight to the fruited controls.
- Observation Vegetative controls had only half as much fresh weight as the fruited controls.
- Intervention effect Carbon exchange rate was significantly reduced in defruited compared with fruited plants 16 days after defoliation.