Abstract
Plant density and stem pruning are factors affecting production of field-grown indeterminate tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.). Plants were established at plant densities of 16,000, 20,000, or 30,000 plants ha−1 and pruning treatments were no stem pruning (0S), prune side shoots below the first flower truss (1F), or prune plants to 1 stem (1S) or 2 stems (2S). Increased plant density resulted in fewer fruit, marketable yield, and total yield per plant. Plant density did not affect marketable and total yield per hectare. Plants subjected to no pruning, or pruning of side shoots below the first flower truss, had the highest marketable yield per plant and per hectare. The lowest plant density, and no pruning, tended toward increased total yield per hectare. A plant density of 16,000 plants ha−1, without stem pruning, is recommended based on cost saving of hybrid seed, due to use of fewer plants, and labor for pruning.
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Claims 7
Claim · model-written summary
Higher density reduced fruit number, marketable yield and total yield per tomato plant.
- Taxon
- Tomato
Solanum lycopersicumt0 - Treatment
- Increased plant densitye0
- Outcome
- fruit, marketable yield, and total yield per plante0
- Direction
- fewere0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Increased plant density resulted in fewer fruit, marketable yield, and total yield per plant”
t0“Tomato”
Claim · model-written summary
Plant density did not affect marketable and total tomato yield per hectare.
- Taxon
- TomatoSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Treatment
- Plant densitye0
- Outcome
- marketable and total yield per hectaree0
- Direction
- did not affecte0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Plant density did not affect marketable and total yield per hectare”
t0“Tomato”
Claim · model-written summary
No pruning gave the highest marketable tomato yield per plant and hectare.
- Taxon
- TomatoSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Treatment
- no pruninge0
- Outcome
- marketable yield per plant and per hectaree0
- Direction
- higheste0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Plants subjected to no pruning, or pruning of side shoots below the first flower truss, had the highest marketable yield per plant and per hectare”
t0“Tomato”
Claim · model-written summary
Pruning side shoots below the first flower truss gave the highest marketable tomato yield per plant and hectare.
- Taxon
- TomatoSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Treatment
- pruning of side shoots below the first flower trusse0
- Outcome
- marketable yield per plant and per hectaree0
- Direction
- higheste0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Plants subjected to no pruning, or pruning of side shoots below the first flower truss, had the highest marketable yield per plant and per hectare”
t0“Tomato”
Claim · model-written summary
The lowest density tended toward increased total tomato yield per hectare.
- Taxon
- TomatoSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Treatment
- lowest plant densitye0
- Outcome
- total yield per hectaree0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Qualifier
- tended towarde0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The lowest plant density, and no pruning, tended toward increased total yield per hectare”
t0“Tomato”
Claim · model-written summary
No pruning tended toward increased total tomato yield per hectare.
- Taxon
- TomatoSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Treatment
- no pruninge0
- Outcome
- total yield per hectaree0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Qualifier
- tended towarde0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The lowest plant density, and no pruning, tended toward increased total yield per hectare”
t0“Tomato”
Claim · model-written summary
A density of 16,000 plants ha−1 without pruning is recommended to save seed and pruning labor.
- Taxon
- TomatoSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Outcome
- A plant density of 16,000 plants ha−1, without stem pruning, is recommendede0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“A plant density of 16,000 plants ha−1, without stem pruning, is recommended based on cost saving of hybrid seed, due to use of fewer plants, and labor for pruning”
t0“Tomato”
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