Claim · model-written summary
Mineral oils did not reduce commercial or first-choice bulb yields.
- Taxon
- TULIPt0
- Treatment
- mineral oilse0
- Outcome
- commercial and the first choice bulb yieldse0
- Direction
- No decreasee0
Not reportedComparator
Verbatim
t0“TULIP”
e0“No decrease in the commercial and the first choice bulb yields due to the mineral oils application were recorded.”
Title
Barbara Marcinek; Katarzyna Karczmarz; Mariusz Szmagara Acta Scientiarum Polonorum Hortorum Cultus 2017. doi:10.24326/asphc.2017.6.12
Other claims from this paper (9)
- Intervention effect Mineral oils did not negatively affect field-grown tulip flower-shoot or tepal length.
- Intervention effect Mineral oils caused no visible leaf phytotoxicity.
- Intervention effect Leaf color was altered after mineral-oil treatment.
- Intervention effect Oil-protected tulips had fewer plants with virus symptoms on petals than controls.
- Intervention effect Mineral oils up to 2.0% did not negatively affect tulip flower quality.
- Observation During forcing, 60 to 73% of control tulips showed virus symptoms despite field selection.
- Association The effect of oils on virus spread varied with study year and oil type.
- Intervention effect Sunspray 850 EC at 1.5% gave the best virus reduction, with 26% infected plants.
- Intervention effect Oil treatments did not fully protect tulips from viruses in any study year.