Abstract
" Biostimulants " are a poorly defined category of products aimed at improving health and growth of plants as well as the quality of their products. The objective of this study was to investigate the effects of different commercially available, foliar applied biostimulants on yield and fruit quality of intensively managed apple orchards in South Tyrol/Northern Italy. The vast majority of the experimental data do not reveal significant effects of the biostimulant applications. We conclude that under standard circumstances biostimulant applications are not likely to lead to commercial benefits for fruit growers.
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Claims 2
Claim · model-written summary
Most experiments found no significant effect of foliar biostimulants on apple yield and fruit quality.
- Taxon
- APPLE
Malus domesticat0 - Treatment
- biostimulant applicationse0
- Outcome
- yield and fruit qualitye0
- Setting
- South Tyrol/Northern Italye0
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Verbatim
t0“FRUIT QUALITY OF APPLE”
e0“foliar applied biostimulants on yield and fruit quality of intensively managed apple orchards in South Tyrol/Northern Italy. The vast majority of the experimental data do not reveal significant effects of the biostimulant applications.”
Claim · model-written summary
The authors concluded that biostimulant applications are unlikely to provide commercial benefits to apple growers under standard circumstances.
- Taxon
- APPLEMalus domesticat0
- Treatment
- biostimulant applicationse0
- Outcome
- commercial benefits for fruit growerse0
- Qualifier
- under standard circumstancese0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“FRUIT QUALITY OF APPLE”
e0“under standard circumstances biostimulant applications are not likely to lead to commercial benefits for fruit growers.”
The same questions in other papers
other · quality: grain · Malus domestica (apple)Results agree
1 paper in the same direction as this paper
- no effect
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