Abstract
The influence of leaf removal and decapitation (removal of apical bud and top two nodes) of determinate tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill cv . Mountain Pride) plants on canopy development was investigated. Leaf removal and decapitation influenced subsequent leaf development and distribution, and early fruiting of greenhouse-grown tomato plants. `Removal of young axillary leaves increased the size of main (true) leaves in the middle and upper nodes, increased the number of nodes, and increased the number of early fruit produced. Removal of main leaves reduced axillary leaf development at nodes 5 and 9. Decapitation increased axillary leaf development in the middle and upper nodes and delayed early fruit production. These results suggest that cultural practices of tomatoes that remove leaves or apical buds to influence fruiting also affect canopy leaf development and distribution.
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Claim · model-written summary
Removing young axillary leaves increased main leaf size in middle and upper nodes.
- Taxon
- Tomato
Solanum lycopersicumt0 - Organ / stage
- middle and upper nodese0
- Treatment
- Removal of young axillary leavese0
- Outcome
- size of main (true) leavese0
- Direction
- increasede0
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Verbatim
e0“Removal of young axillary leaves increased the size of main (true) leaves in the middle and upper nodes”
t0“Tomato”
Claim · model-written summary
Removing young axillary leaves increased the number of nodes.
- Taxon
- TomatoSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Treatment
- Removal of young axillary leavese0
- Outcome
- number of nodese0
- Direction
- increasede0
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Verbatim
e0“Removal of young axillary leaves increased the size of main (true) leaves in the middle and upper nodes, increased the number of nodes”
t0“Tomato”
Claim · model-written summary
Removing young axillary leaves increased early fruit number.
- Taxon
- TomatoSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Treatment
- Removal of young axillary leavese0
- Outcome
- number of early fruit producede0
- Direction
- increasede0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Removal of young axillary leaves increased the size of main (true) leaves in the middle and upper nodes, increased the number of nodes, and increased the number of early fruit produced”
t0“Tomato”
Claim · model-written summary
Removing main leaves reduced axillary leaf development at nodes 5 and 9.
- Taxon
- TomatoSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Organ / stage
- nodes 5 and 9e0
- Treatment
- Removal of main leavese0
- Outcome
- axillary leaf developmente0
- Direction
- reducede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Removal of main leaves reduced axillary leaf development at nodes 5 and 9”
t0“Tomato”
Claim · model-written summary
Decapitation increased axillary leaf development in middle and upper nodes.
- Taxon
- TomatoSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Organ / stage
- middle and upper nodese0
- Treatment
- Decapitatione0
- Outcome
- axillary leaf developmente0
- Direction
- increasede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Decapitation increased axillary leaf development in the middle and upper nodes”
t0“Tomato”
Claim · model-written summary
Decapitation delayed early fruit production.
- Taxon
- TomatoSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Treatment
- Decapitatione0
- Outcome
- early fruit productione0
- Direction
- delayede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Decapitation increased axillary leaf development in the middle and upper nodes and delayed early fruit production”
t0“Tomato”
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