Abstract
Manual fruit thinning is a common practice to enhance the quality of kiwifruit, yet information on its effects regarding subsequent lateral blooming remains limited. We investigated the impact of floral and fruit thinning on fruit size, dry matter, and carbohydrate accumulation. Effects on lateral blooming in the following season were also assessed. Thinning was conducted at full bloom, and 53 and 103 days after full bloom (DAFB), removing 50% of flowers or fruits. Thinning flowers or fruit at 53 or 103 DAFB resulted in increased fruit fresh and dry weights. The percentage of dry matter also rose with flower or fruit thinning at 53 DAFB. Fruit firmness, total soluble solids, and fruit shape at harvest were not affected significantly by thinning. Floral thinning boosted the fruit content of fructose, sucrose, starch, soluble, and total carbohydrates. All treatments led to an increase in the total carbohydrate content in the fruit, but floral thinning produced the highest values for starch and total carbohydrates. In the following season, floral thinning yielded a marked increase in inflorescences with double and triple lateral flowers, significantly enhancing the reproductive capacity of the vines. Additionally, fruit thinning at 53 DAFB also resulted in a rise in inflorescences featuring triple flowers and an increase in reproductive capacity, though to a lesser extent.
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Claims 9
Claim · model-written summary
Flower or fruit thinning increased fruit fresh and dry weights.
- Taxon
- Kiwifruit
Actinidia deliciosat0 - Treatment
- Thinning flowers or fruit at 53 or 103 DAFBe0
- Outcome
- fruit fresh and dry weightse0
- Direction
- increasede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Thinning flowers or fruit at 53 or 103 DAFB resulted in increased fruit fresh and dry weights”
t0“Kiwifruit Vines”
Claim · model-written summary
Flower or fruit thinning at 53 DAFB increased fruit dry matter percentage.
- Taxon
- KiwifruitActinidia deliciosat0
- Treatment
- flower or fruit thinning at 53 DAFBe0
- Outcome
- percentage of dry mattere0
- Direction
- rosee0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The percentage of dry matter also rose with flower or fruit thinning at 53 DAFB”
t0“Kiwifruit Vines”
Claim · model-written summary
Thinning did not significantly affect fruit firmness, soluble solids or fruit shape at harvest.
- Taxon
- KiwifruitActinidia deliciosat0
- Treatment
- thinninge0
- Outcome
- Fruit firmness, total soluble solids, and fruit shape at harveste0
- Direction
- not affectede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Fruit firmness, total soluble solids, and fruit shape at harvest were not affected significantly by thinning”
t0“Kiwifruit Vines”
Claim · model-written summary
Floral thinning increased fruit fructose, sucrose and starch content.
- Taxon
- KiwifruitActinidia deliciosat0
- Treatment
- Floral thinninge0
- Outcome
- fruit content of fructose, sucrose, starche0
- Direction
- boostede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Floral thinning boosted the fruit content of fructose, sucrose, starch, soluble, and total carbohydrates”
t0“Kiwifruit Vines”
Claim · model-written summary
Floral thinning increased fruit soluble and total carbohydrates.
- Taxon
- KiwifruitActinidia deliciosat0
- Treatment
- Floral thinninge0
- Outcome
- soluble, and total carbohydratese0
- Direction
- boostede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Floral thinning boosted the fruit content of fructose, sucrose, starch, soluble, and total carbohydrates”
t0“Kiwifruit Vines”
Claim · model-written summary
All thinning treatments increased fruit total carbohydrate content.
- Taxon
- KiwifruitActinidia deliciosat0
- Treatment
- All treatmentse0
- Outcome
- total carbohydrate content in the fruite0
- Direction
- increasee0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“All treatments led to an increase in the total carbohydrate content in the fruit”
t0“Kiwifruit Vines”
Claim · model-written summary
Floral thinning produced the highest fruit starch and total carbohydrate values.
- Taxon
- KiwifruitActinidia deliciosat0
- Treatment
- floral thinninge0
- Outcome
- starch and total carbohydratese0
- Direction
- higheste0
Not reportedComparator
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Verbatim
e0“floral thinning produced the highest values for starch and total carbohydrates”
t0“Kiwifruit Vines”
Claim · model-written summary
Floral thinning increased inflorescences with double and triple lateral flowers the next season.
- Taxon
- KiwifruitActinidia deliciosat0
- Treatment
- floral thinninge0
- Outcome
- inflorescences with double and triple lateral flowerse0
- Direction
- increasee0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“In the following season, floral thinning yielded a marked increase in inflorescences with double and triple lateral flowers, significantly enhancing the reproductive capacity of the vines”
t0“Kiwifruit Vines”
Claim · model-written summary
Fruit thinning at 53 DAFB increased inflorescences with triple flowers and reproductive capacity.
- Taxon
- KiwifruitActinidia deliciosat0
- Treatment
- fruit thinning at 53 DAFBe0
- Outcome
- inflorescences featuring triple flowerse0
- Direction
- risee0
- Qualifier
- though to a lesser extente0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“fruit thinning at 53 DAFB also resulted in a rise in inflorescences featuring triple flowers and an increase in reproductive capacity, though to a lesser extent”
t0“Kiwifruit Vines”
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