Claim · model-written summary
The percentage of blossom-end rot in sweet pepper increased with solutions having high K/Ca or high Mg/Ca.
- Taxon
- Capsicum annuum L.
Capsicum annuume0 - Treatment
- solutions having high K/Ca or high Mg/Cae5
- Outcome
- percentage of blossom-end rote5
- Direction
- increasede5
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Verbatim
e0“Sweet pepper plants (Capsicum annuum L.)”
e5“The percentage of blossom-end rot was reduced with the AT, whilst it was increased with the solutions having high K/Ca or high Mg/Ca”
Title
Francisco M. del Amor; Jose S. Rubio Journal of Plant Nutrition 2009. doi:10.1080/01904160802531043
Other claims from this paper (15)
- Intervention effect Antitranspirant did not affect dry weight accumulation in leaves, stems and roots of sweet pepper.
- Intervention effect Antitranspirant did not affect total plant leaf area or leaf dry weight percentage of sweet pepper.
- Intervention effect Antitranspirant did not impair net CO2 assimilation of sweet pepper.
- Intervention effect Antitranspirant significantly reduced water uptake of sweet pepper, independent of the nutrient solution used.
- Intervention effect Antitranspirant did not affect cation uptake of sweet pepper.
- Intervention effect High Mg significantly reduced Ca concentration in leaves, stems and fruits compared with half-strength Hoagland solution.
- Intervention effect High K had an effect only in old leaves and fruits of sweet pepper; the direction is not stated.
- Intervention effect Antitranspirant reduced fructose and glucose concentration in sweet pepper leaves.
- Intervention effect Antitranspirant had no effect on fructose and glucose concentration in sweet pepper fruits.
- Intervention effect Antitranspirant did not affect fruit yield of sweet pepper.
- Intervention effect Fruit yield of sweet pepper increased when plants were grown with high Mg/Ca.
- Intervention effect Antitranspirant reduced the percentage of blossom-end rot in sweet pepper.
- Intervention effect Antitranspirant significantly reduced fruit firmness of sweet pepper.
- Intervention effect Antitranspirant had no effect on fruit color, shape index or total soluble solids of sweet pepper.
- Intervention effect Antitranspirant had no effect on pericarp thickness of sweet pepper fruit.