Abstract
The effects of early pruning on the growth and yield of ‘Florida-47’ and ‘Sungard’ tomato ( Solanum lycopersicum ) were assessed in west-central Florida. Each cultivar was established in separate experiments. The four pruning treatments consisted of leaving one, two, and three main stems in the tomato plants below the first flower cluster, and a nonpruned control. Pruning shoots had significant effects on the plant height of ‘Sungard’ and ‘Florida-47’ at 4 and 3 weeks after transplanting, respectively. Tomato plants with a single stem were 13% and 10% taller than the ones in the nonpruned control, respectively. However, this effect disappeared 1 and 2 weeks later in both cultivars. Regardless of the cultivar, early pruning did not influence foliar disease incidence or early and total tomato marketable yield. This cultural practice did not affect the partitioning to different fruit categories in either cultivars. This data showed that early pruning can temporarily change the plant architecture of ‘Sungard’ and ‘Florida-47’ tomato, explaining the perceived increased plant vigor in comparison with the nonpruned control. However, the effect disappeared during the growing season and did not reflect on marketable yields of either tomato cultivars. If no pruning were performed in these cultivars, growers would be able to save an estimated $40/acre of tomato.
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Claims 7
Claim · model-written summary
Single-stem Sungard tomato was 13% taller than unpruned plants four weeks after transplanting.
- Taxon
- Tomato
Solanum lycopersicume0 - Material
- Sungardt0
- Treatment
- single steme0
- Outcome
- tallere0
- Direction
- tallere0
- Value
- 13%e0
- Comparator
- nonpruned controle0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Tomato plants with a single stem were 13% and 10% taller than the ones in the nonpruned control, respectively.”
t0“Sungard”
Claim · model-written summary
Single-stem Florida-47 tomato was 10% taller than unpruned plants three weeks after transplanting.
- Taxon
- TomatoSolanum lycopersicume0
- Material
- Florida-47t0
- Treatment
- single steme0
- Outcome
- tallere0
- Direction
- tallere0
- Value
- 10%e0
- Comparator
- nonpruned controle0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Tomato plants with a single stem were 13% and 10% taller than the ones in the nonpruned control, respectively.”
t0“Florida-47”
Claim · model-written summary
The pruning-related height difference later disappeared in both tomato cultivars.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Treatment
- early pruningt1
- Outcome
- effecte0
- Direction
- disappearede0
- Qualifier
- 1 and 2 weeks latere0
- Comparator
- nonpruned controle1
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“this effect disappeared 1 and 2 weeks later in both cultivars.”
t0“tomato”
t1“Regardless of the cultivar, early pruning”
e1“ones in the nonpruned control”
Claim · model-written summary
Early pruning did not influence tomato foliar disease incidence.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicume0
- Treatment
- early pruninge0
- Outcome
- foliar disease incidencee0
- Direction
- did not influencee0
- Comparator
- nonpruned controlt0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“early pruning did not influence foliar disease incidence or early and total tomato marketable yield”
t0“ones in the nonpruned control”
Claim · model-written summary
Early pruning did not influence early tomato marketable yield.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicume0
- Treatment
- early pruninge0
- Outcome
- early and total tomato marketable yielde0
- Direction
- did not influencee0
- Comparator
- nonpruned controlt0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“early pruning did not influence foliar disease incidence or early and total tomato marketable yield”
t0“ones in the nonpruned control”
Claim · model-written summary
Early pruning did not affect tomato fruit category partitioning.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Treatment
- early pruningt1
- Outcome
- partitioning to different fruit categoriese0
- Direction
- did not affecte0
- Comparator
- nonpruned controle1
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“This cultural practice did not affect the partitioning to different fruit categories in either cultivars.”
t0“tomato”
t1“Regardless of the cultivar, early pruning”
e1“ones in the nonpruned control”
Claim · model-written summary
No pruning was estimated to save growers $40/acre of tomato.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicume0
- Outcome
- savee0
- Value
- $40/acree0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“If no pruning were performed in these cultivars, growers would be able to save an estimated $40/acre of tomato.”
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