Abstract
An experiment on soil working techniques like CBOC (crescent bund with open catchment pits), mulching and pre-harvest spray of forchlorfenuron and boron was carried out on seven-year-old plants of pomegranate cultivar Kandhari trained as four stems grown under rainfed conditions of Himachal Pradesh. Experimental plants were subjected to 11 treatments, viz., mulching, CBOC, CPPU (forchlorfenuron) at 5 or 10 ppm, H3BO3 at 0.2 or 0.4%, mulching + CPPU at 5 ppm or H3BO3 at 0.2%, CBOC + CPPU at 5 ppm or H3BO3 at 0.2% and control. These treatments were applied in mid-March (soil working techniques) and mid-May (forchlorfenuron and boron). Between the two applied soil working techniques, crescent bund with open catchments pits conserved higher soil moisture content at all the observation dates than mulching. Growth parameters like plant height, plant spread, trunk girth and annual shoot growth were observed significantly higher under the treatment CBOC + H 3BO3 at 0.2% due to higher moisture availability. However, leaf area and leaf chlorophyll content were recorded significantly higher under the treatment CBOC + CPPU at 5 ppm. Physiological characteristics such as photosynthetic rate and transpiration rate were higher in the plant under crescent bund with open catchment pits. The extent of fruit cracking was reduced to the lowest level (2.8%) from 11.67% in control and highest fruit yield (26.8Kg/plant) was recorded when the plants were given foliar application of CPPU at 5 ppm under CBOC. These results suggest that, soil working technique- crescent bund with open catchment pit can be employed to conserve higher soil moisture in rainfed conditions for improving growth and production of pomegranate.
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Claim · model-written summary
Crescent bund with open catchment pits conserved higher soil moisture than mulching at all observation dates in pomegranate
- Taxon
- pomegranate
Punica granatume0 - Material
- cultivar Kandharie0
- Treatment
- crescent bund with open catchments pitse1
- Outcome
- soil moisture contente1
- Direction
- highere1
- Qualifier
- at all the observation datese1
- Comparator
- mulchinge1
- Setting
- rainfed conditions of Himachal Pradeshe0
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Verbatim
e0“seven-year-old plants of pomegranate cultivar Kandhari trained as four stems grown under rainfed conditions of Himachal Pradesh”
e1“crescent bund with open catchments pits conserved higher soil moisture content at all the observation dates than mulching”
Claim · model-written summary
Plant height, plant spread and trunk girth were significantly higher under CBOC with H 3BO3 at 0.2 percent, due to higher moisture availability
- Taxon
- pomegranatePunica granatume0
- Treatment
- CBOC + H 3BO3 at 0.2%e2
- Outcome
- plant height, plant spread, trunk girthe2
- Direction
- highere2
- Qualifier
- due to higher moisture availabilitye2
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“seven-year-old plants of pomegranate cultivar Kandhari trained as four stems grown under rainfed conditions of Himachal Pradesh”
e2“Growth parameters like plant height, plant spread, trunk girth and annual shoot growth were observed significantly higher under the treatment CBOC + H 3BO3 at 0.2% due to higher moisture availability”
Claim · model-written summary
Annual shoot growth was significantly higher under CBOC with H 3BO3 at 0.2 percent
- Taxon
- pomegranatePunica granatume0
- Treatment
- CBOC + H 3BO3 at 0.2%e2
- Outcome
- annual shoot growthe2
- Direction
- highere2
- Qualifier
- due to higher moisture availabilitye2
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“seven-year-old plants of pomegranate cultivar Kandhari trained as four stems grown under rainfed conditions of Himachal Pradesh”
e2“Growth parameters like plant height, plant spread, trunk girth and annual shoot growth were observed significantly higher under the treatment CBOC + H 3BO3 at 0.2% due to higher moisture availability”
Claim · model-written summary
Leaf area and leaf chlorophyll content were significantly higher under CBOC with CPPU at 5 ppm
- Taxon
- pomegranatePunica granatume0
- Treatment
- CBOC + CPPU at 5 ppme3
- Outcome
- leaf area and leaf chlorophyll contente3
- Direction
- highere3
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“seven-year-old plants of pomegranate cultivar Kandhari trained as four stems grown under rainfed conditions of Himachal Pradesh”
e3“However, leaf area and leaf chlorophyll content were recorded significantly higher under the treatment CBOC + CPPU at 5 ppm”
Claim · model-written summary
Photosynthetic rate and transpiration rate were higher under crescent bund with open catchment pits
- Taxon
- pomegranatePunica granatume0
- Treatment
- crescent bund with open catchment pitse4
- Outcome
- photosynthetic rate and transpiration ratee4
- Direction
- highere4
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“seven-year-old plants of pomegranate cultivar Kandhari trained as four stems grown under rainfed conditions of Himachal Pradesh”
e4“Physiological characteristics such as photosynthetic rate and transpiration rate were higher in the plant under crescent bund with open catchment pits”
Claim · model-written summary
Fruit cracking was reduced to 2.8 percent from 11.67 percent in control plants
- Taxon
- pomegranatePunica granatume0
- Outcome
- extent of fruit crackinge5
- Direction
- reducede5
- Value
- 2.8%e5
- Comparator
- controle5
Not reportedTreatment
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Verbatim
e0“seven-year-old plants of pomegranate cultivar Kandhari trained as four stems grown under rainfed conditions of Himachal Pradesh”
e5“The extent of fruit cracking was reduced to the lowest level (2.8%) from 11.67% in control”
Claim · model-written summary
The highest fruit yield of pomegranate was recorded with foliar CPPU at 5 ppm under CBOC
- Taxon
- pomegranatePunica granatume0
- Treatment
- foliar application of CPPU at 5 ppm under CBOCe6
- Outcome
- fruit yielde6
- Direction
- higheste6
- Value
- 26.8Kg/plante6
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“seven-year-old plants of pomegranate cultivar Kandhari trained as four stems grown under rainfed conditions of Himachal Pradesh”
e6“highest fruit yield (26.8Kg/plant) was recorded when the plants were given foliar application of CPPU at 5 ppm under CBOC”
Claim · model-written summary
Crescent bund with open catchment pit can be employed to conserve higher soil moisture in rainfed conditions for improving pomegranate growth and production
- Taxon
- pomegranatePunica granatume7
- Outcome
- conserve higher soil moisturee7
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e7“soil working technique- crescent bund with open catchment pit can be employed to conserve higher soil moisture in rainfed conditions for improving growth and production of pomegranate”
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