Abstract
The spindliness of tomato transplants grown at high densities in a greenhouse was reduced by an ethephon spray or intermittent vibration of the seedlings with air movement. Either treatment reduced the following growth parameters: plant height, height-to-stem-diameter ratio, stem diameter, fresh weight, and dry weight. One ethephon spray alone reduced the height and improved the stalkiness of the seedling. Vibration of the plants with air movement had an even greater height-reduction effect while a combination of the two treatments was the most effective in producing the stalkiest transplants.Key words: Lycopersicon esculentum, plant height, stem diameter, tomato, growth regulator
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Claims 7
Claim · model-written summary
Ethephon spray reduced spindliness of high-density tomato transplants.
- Taxon
- tomato
Solanum lycopersicume0 - Treatment
- an ethephon spraye0
- Outcome
- spindlinesse0
- Direction
- reducede0
- Setting
- greenhousee0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The spindliness of tomato transplants grown at high densities in a greenhouse was reduced by an ethephon spray or intermittent vibration of the seedlings with air movement.”
Claim · model-written summary
Intermittent vibration reduced spindliness of high-density tomato transplants.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicume0
- Treatment
- intermittent vibration of the seedlings with air movemente0
- Outcome
- spindlinesse0
- Direction
- reducede0
- Setting
- greenhousee0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The spindliness of tomato transplants grown at high densities in a greenhouse was reduced by an ethephon spray or intermittent vibration of the seedlings with air movement.”
Claim · model-written summary
Either treatment reduced plant height, height-to-stem-diameter ratio, and stem diameter.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Treatment
- Either treatmente0
- Outcome
- plant height, height-to-stem-diameter ratio, stem diametere0
- Direction
- reducede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Either treatment reduced the following growth parameters: plant height, height-to-stem-diameter ratio, stem diameter, fresh weight, and dry weight.”
t0“TOMATO TRANSPLANTS”
Claim · model-written summary
Either treatment reduced transplant fresh and dry weights.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Treatment
- Either treatmente0
- Outcome
- fresh weight, and dry weighte0
- Direction
- reducede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Either treatment reduced the following growth parameters: plant height, height-to-stem-diameter ratio, stem diameter, fresh weight, and dry weight.”
t0“TOMATO TRANSPLANTS”
Claim · model-written summary
One ethephon spray reduced seedling height and improved stalkiness.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Treatment
- One ethephon spray alonee0
- Outcome
- height and improved the stalkinesse0
- Direction
- reducede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“One ethephon spray alone reduced the height and improved the stalkiness of the seedling.”
t0“TOMATO TRANSPLANTS”
Claim · model-written summary
Air-driven vibration reduced height more than ethephon spray.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Treatment
- Vibration of the plants with air movemente0
- Outcome
- height-reduction effecte0
- Direction
- greatere0
Not reportedComparator
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Verbatim
e0“Vibration of the plants with air movement had an even greater height-reduction effect”
t0“TOMATO TRANSPLANTS”
Claim · model-written summary
Combining the two treatments produced the stalkiest transplants.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Treatment
- a combination of the two treatmentse0
- Outcome
- stalkiest transplantse0
- Direction
- most effectivee0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“a combination of the two treatments was the most effective in producing the stalkiest transplants.”
t0“TOMATO TRANSPLANTS”
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