Abstract
The response of one-year-old peach trees growing in sand culture to foliar applications of 1 per cent potassium dihydrogen phosphate given in summer, autumn, or summer ± autumn after initial pH adjustment to 2.5, 4.5 or 6.5 was compared with that of controls fed ± phosphate via roots. After one season, it was clear that foliar-applied phosphate had been less effective than root-applied phosphate as a means of increasing tree growth and phosphorus content. This result allied with other published information suggests that foliar applications are an inefficient means of supplying phosphate to fruit trees.
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Claims 3
Claim · model-written summary
Foliar phosphate was less effective than root phosphate for increasing tree growth.
- Taxon
- peach trees
Prunus persicae1 - Treatment
- foliar-applied phosphatee0
- Outcome
- tree growthe0
- Direction
- less effectivee0
- Comparator
- root-applied phosphatee0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“foliar-applied phosphate had been less effective than root-applied phosphate as a means of increasing tree growth”
e1“one-year-old peach trees”
Claim · model-written summary
Foliar phosphate was less effective than root phosphate for increasing phosphorus content.
- Taxon
- peach treesPrunus persicae1
- Treatment
- foliar-applied phosphatee0
- Outcome
- phosphorus contente0
- Direction
- less effectivee0
- Comparator
- root-applied phosphatee0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“foliar-applied phosphate had been less effective than root-applied phosphate as a means of increasing tree growth and phosphorus content”
e1“one-year-old peach trees”
Claim · model-written summary
Foliar applications were judged an inefficient way to supply phosphate to fruit trees.
Verbatim
e0“foliar applications are an inefficient means of supplying phosphate to fruit trees”
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