Abstract
The effect of defoliation, and to some extent desiccation, on the lint quality of cotton was investigated in 4 trials in 1962-4. The 2 defoliants DEF (72% w/v S.S.S-tributyl phosphorotrithioate) and Folex (71.2% w/v.S.S.S-ttibutylphosphorotrithioite) were compared with the desiccant diquat. In all cases DEF and Folex caused loss of leaf in its green state and little desiccated leaf was present at harvest; diquat produced complete desiccation within 5 days. Little improvement in quality resulted from defoliation.
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Claims 3
Claim · model-written summary
Defoliation resulted in little improvement in cotton lint quality.
- Taxon
- cotton
Gossypium hirsutume0 - Treatment
- defoliatione4
- Outcome
- improvement in qualitye4
- Direction
- Little improvemente4
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The effect of defoliation, and to some extent desiccation, on the lint quality of cotton”
e4“Little improvement in quality resulted from defoliation.”
Claim · model-written summary
DEF and Folex caused loss of leaf in the green state and little desiccated leaf at harvest, compared with diquat.
- Taxon
- cottonGossypium hirsutume0
- Treatment
- DEF and Folexe2
- Outcome
- loss of leaf in its green statee2
- Comparator
- diquate1
Not reportedDirection
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The effect of defoliation, and to some extent desiccation, on the lint quality of cotton”
e1“were compared with the desiccant diquat”
e2“In all cases DEF and Folex caused loss of leaf in its green state and little desiccated leaf was present at harvest”
Claim · model-written summary
Diquat produced complete desiccation within 5 days.
- Taxon
- cottonGossypium hirsutume0
- Treatment
- diquate3
- Outcome
- complete desiccatione3
- Value
- within 5 dayse3
Not reportedComparatorDirection
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The effect of defoliation, and to some extent desiccation, on the lint quality of cotton”
e3“diquat produced complete desiccation within 5 days”
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pruning · quality: general · Gossypium hirsutum (cotton)Results agree
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