Claim · model-written summary
Treated tomato fruit Fe increased by 14% relative to untreated samples.
- Taxon
- Tomato
Solanum lycopersicumt0 - Treatment
- the biostimulante0
- Outcome
- Fee0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Value
- +14%e0
- Comparator
- untreated samplese0
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Verbatim
t0“Tomato”
e0“tomatoes treated with the biostimulant had better nutritional composition compared to untreated samples, since both the quality of unsatured fatty acids (C16:3ω3: +328%; C18:2ω6: −23%) and micronutrients essential for human health (Fe: +14%; Cu: +21%; Zn: +24%) were increased”
Title
Giuseppe Mannino; Cristina Campobenedetto; Ivano Vigliante; et al. Biomolecules 2020. doi:10.3390/biom10121662
Other claims from this paper (10)
- Intervention effect Expando reduced tomato fruit ripening time by two weeks.
- Intervention effect Expando increased earliest ripening fruit yield by 110%.
- Intervention effect Expando increased earliest ripening fruit size by 85%.
- Intervention effect Treated tomato fruit C16:3ω3 content increased by 328% relative to untreated samples.
- Intervention effect Treated tomato fruit C18:2ω6 content decreased by 23% relative to untreated samples.
- Intervention effect Treated tomato fruit Cu increased by 21% relative to untreated samples.
- Intervention effect Treated tomato fruit Zn increased by 24% relative to untreated samples.
- Intervention effect Biostimulant treatment did not cause strong changes in tomato fruit bioactive compound profile.
- Intervention effect Biostimulant treatment increased tomato fruit ABTS antioxidant activity by 38%.
- Intervention effect Biostimulant treatment increased tomato fruit DPPH antioxidant activity by 11%.