Claim · model-written summary
Medium-fruit load gave a modest yield loss in pomelo.
- Taxon
- pomelo
Citrus maximae1 - Treatment
- medium-fruit loade5
- Outcome
- yielde5
- Direction
- decreaseinferrede5
- Qualifier
- a modest amounte5
- Setting
- field experimente2
Not reportedComparator
Verbatim
e1“Citrus, including pomelo ( C. grandis (L.) Osbeck)”
e2“A two-year field experiment was conducted”
e5“medium-fruit load offered a balanced trade-off by sacrificing a modest amount of yield to enhance fruit quality”
Title
Ziwei Luo; Binbin Pan; Xiaona Li; et al. Industrial Crops and Products 2026. doi:10.1016/j.indcrop.2026.122895
Other claims from this paper (13)
- Intervention effect High-fruit load significantly increased pomelo fruit yield compared with low-fruit load in a two-year field experiment.
- Intervention effect High-fruit load reduced single fruit weight, colour and sugar content of pomelo fruit compared with low-fruit load.
- Intervention effect High-fruit load reduced antioxidant capacity of pomelo fruit compared with low-fruit load.
- Intervention effect Medium-fruit load enhanced pomelo fruit quality as a trade-off for a modest yield loss.
- Intervention effect Yield losses under medium-fruit load were offset by an increased proportion of high-quality pomelo fruit.
- Intervention effect Medium-fruit load elevated overall income of pomelo production.
- Intervention effect Optimized fertilization significantly reduced chemical fertilizer inputs compared with farmer’s fertilization in pomelo.
- Intervention effect Optimized fertilization did not change pomelo yield or quality compared with farmer’s fertilization.
- Intervention effect Optimized fertilization substantially increased fertilizer partial factor productivity (PFP) in pomelo compared with farmer’s fertilization.
- Intervention effect Optimized fertilization reduced GHG emissions in pomelo production compared with farmer’s fertilization.
- Intervention effect The combination of medium-fruit load with optimized fertilization gave the best overall performance in pomelo.
- Method / resource The combination of medium-fruit load with optimized fertilization achieved the highest scores across the GRA, TOPSIS and CEM evaluation methods.
- Recommendation The authors recommend implementing and developing a comprehensive evaluation method based on quantitative multi-objective indicators for pomelo.