Claim · model-written summary
Silicon at 50 mg/L increased Maheshi fruit size.
- Taxon
- tomato
Solanum lycopersicumt0 - Material
- ‘Maheshie0
- Treatment
- Si applied at 50e0
- Outcome
- fruit sizee0
- Direction
- highere0
- Comparator
- controle0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“tomato fruit (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.)”
e0“In ‘Maheshi, Si applied at 50 and 100 mg/L at all stages showed a significantly higher (p ≤ 0.05) fruit size compared to the control”
Title
Darshani Weerahewa; Dilshan David Journal of the National Science Foundation of Sri Lanka 2015. doi:10.4038/jnsfsr.v43i3.7959
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- Intervention effect Silicon at 100 mg/L increased Maheshi fruit size.
- Intervention effect Higher potassium doses significantly increased fruit size.
- Intervention effect Silicon at 50 and 100 mg/L significantly increased Maheshi fruit firmness.
- Intervention effect Silicon lowered total acidity in Thilina.
- Intervention effect Higher potassium doses increased total soluble solids in Thilina.
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- Intervention effect Silicon increased fungal appressoria formation on tomato fruit.