Abstract
Summer pruning reduces vegetative growth in apple trees, but it could have an impact on fruit quality. This study analyzed the effects of summer pruning as an eco-friendly pre-harvest alternative to chemical growth regulation inputs on instrumental and sensory quality of highly vigorous apple cv. ‘Reinette du Canada’, which has been awarded with a Protected Designation of Origin label in two environments. The results showed that summer pruning affected the mineral content of the fruit. Summer pruning reduced bitter pit, but it did not negatively affect fruit weight nor any other instrumental characteristic during storage. Moreover, sensory quality or degree of liking were not affected by summer pruning. Thus, summer pruning could be an eco-friendly pre-harvest alternative to chemical treatments to improve quality in global terms of ‘Reinette du Canada’ apple cultivar, regardless of the location. This technique contributed to the decrease of bitter pit incidence, but did not decrease sensory quality nor degree of liking.
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Claims 5
Claim · model-written summary
Summer pruning affected fruit mineral content.
- Taxon
- apple
Malus domesticat0 - Treatment
- summer pruninge0
- Outcome
- mineral content of the fruite0
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Verbatim
e0“The results showed that summer pruning affected the mineral content of the fruit.”
t0“Apple”
Claim · model-written summary
Summer pruning reduced bitter pit.
- Taxon
- appleMalus domesticat0
- Treatment
- Summer pruninge0
- Outcome
- bitter pite0
- Direction
- reducede0
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Verbatim
e0“Summer pruning reduced bitter pit, but it did not negatively affect fruit weight nor any other instrumental characteristic during storage.”
t0“Apple”
Claim · model-written summary
Summer pruning did not negatively affect fruit weight or other instrumental storage characteristics.
- Taxon
- appleMalus domesticat0
- Treatment
- Summer pruninge0
- Outcome
- fruit weight nor any other instrumental characteristic during storagee0
- Direction
- did not negatively affecte0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Summer pruning reduced bitter pit, but it did not negatively affect fruit weight nor any other instrumental characteristic during storage.”
t0“Apple”
Claim · model-written summary
Summer pruning did not affect sensory quality or degree of liking.
- Taxon
- appleMalus domesticat0
- Treatment
- summer pruninge0
- Outcome
- sensory quality or degree of likinge0
- Direction
- not affectede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Moreover, sensory quality or degree of liking were not affected by summer pruning.”
t0“Apple”
Claim · model-written summary
The authors propose summer pruning as an alternative to chemical treatments for overall apple quality.
- Taxon
- appleMalus domesticat0
- Outcome
- summer pruning could be an eco-friendly pre-harvest alternative to chemical treatmentse0
- Qualifier
- regardless of the locatione0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“summer pruning could be an eco-friendly pre-harvest alternative to chemical treatments to improve quality in global terms of ‘Reinette du Canada’ apple cultivar, regardless of the location.”
t0“Apple”
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