Claim · model-written summary
Spread harvesting raised spinach yield to about 400% of single harvesting.
- Taxon
- spinach
Spinacia oleraceae0 - Treatment
- Spread harvestinge1
- Outcome
- yielde0
- Value
- ca. 400%e0
- Comparator
- single harvestinge0
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Verbatim
e0“yield of the 3 lettuce cultivars and spinach was ca. 400% than single harvesting.”
e1“Spread harvesting had a large influence on the amount of harvested biomass per unit area.”
Title
Growing fresh food on future space missions: Environmental conditions and crop management
Esther Meinen; Tom Dueck; Frank Kempkes; et al. Scientia Horticulturae 2018. doi:10.1016/j.scienta.2018.03.002
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- Observation The expected fresh food production ranking was lettuce, cucumber, radish, then tomato.
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