Claim · model-written summary
Foliar chitosan increased fruit yield by up to 42%.
- Taxon
- strawberry
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Fragaria ×ananassae0 - Treatment
- Foliar applications of chitosane0
- Outcome
- fruit yielde0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Value
- up to 42%e0
- Comparator
- untreated controle0
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Verbatim
e0“Foliar applications of chitosan on strawberry significantly increased plant growth and fruit yield (up to 42% higher) compared to untreated control”
Title
Chitosan biopolymer promotes yield and stimulates accumulation of antioxidants in strawberry fruit
Mosaddiqur Rahman; Mosaddiqur Rahman; Julakha Akter Mukta; et al. PLoS ONE 2018. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0203769
Other claims from this paper (8)
- Intervention effect Foliar chitosan increased plant growth.
- Mechanism Higher individual fruit weight was attributed to chitosan yield gains.
- Mechanism Higher total fruit weight per plant was attributed to chitosan yield gains.
- Intervention effect Chitosan increased carotenoid content in fruit.
- Intervention effect Chitosan increased anthocyanin content in fruit.
- Intervention effect Chitosan increased flavonoid content in fruit.
- Intervention effect Chitosan increased phenolic content in fruit.
- Intervention effect Chitosan increased fruit total antioxidant activity about twofold.