What is it about?
Papaya producers in greenhouses of SE Spain remove leaf blades of plants long before leaves become senescent. By analyzing sink/source relationships in leaves of different ages, we demonstrated that this practice is a mistake.
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Why is it important?
The wrong practice of removing photosynthetically active leaves of papaya plants in greenhouse cultivation is costly and likely affects productivy and fruit size.
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This page is a summary of: Leaf age does not justify its early removal in
Carica papaya
L, Annals of Applied Biology, December 2019, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/aab.12554.
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