Claim · model-written summary
Pruning of lateral shoots decreased yield by 15% to 35%.
- Taxon
- Yard-long Bean
Vigna unguiculata subsp. sesquipedalist0 - Treatment
- Pruning of lateral shootse0
- Outcome
- yielde0
- Direction
- decreasee0
- Value
- 15% to 35%e0
Not reportedComparator
Verbatim
t0“Yard-long Bean”
e0“Pruning of lateral shoots was not justified - it showed a yield decrease of 15% to 35%”
Title
Dean Ban; Josip Borošić; Bruno Novak ACS. Agriculturae conspectus scientificus 1998
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- Observation Yard-long bean pod yield in unheated plastichouse ranged from 0.93 to 2.84 kg/m2.
- Observation Yard-long bean pod yield in the field ranged from 0.70 to 1.77 kg/m2.
- Observation Harvesting time in unheated plastichouse was 59 to 80 days.
- Observation Harvesting time in the field was 55 to 69 days.
- Observation Pod yield of 27% to 55% was obtained in the first three harvest weeks.
- Observation Most harvested pods (35-46%) were in the length category of 30 to 40 cm.
- Intervention effect Increasing the support height from 1.6 to 2.0 m doubled yard-long bean pod yield.
- Intervention effect Plastic net and plastic cord winding gave no significant difference in pod yield when used as support.
- Observation Harvesting one kilogram of yard-long bean pods took 13 to 24 minutes.
- Association Yard-long bean pods have a low keeping quality at higher air temperatures.
- Observation After three days of storage in paper bags at room temperature (20 to 25°C), yard-long bean pods lost 15-19% water.
- Observation After three days of storage in the refrigerator (8 to 10°C), yard-long bean pods lost 7-13% water.