Claim · model-written summary
Trickle N reduced External versus preplant N.
- Taxon
- Tomatoes
Solanum lycopersicumt0 - Treatment
- Ne0
- Outcome
- Externale0
- Direction
- less severee0
- Comparator
- preplant-applied Ne0
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Verbatim
e0“External and internal blotchy ripening were less severe with trickle-applied N supplied as N + K or N than with preplant-applied N.”
t0“Tomatoes”
Title
James M. Dangler; Salvadore J. Locascio Journal of the American Society for Horticultural Science 1990. doi:10.21273/jashs.115.4.547
Other claims from this paper (18)
- Intervention effect Trickle N + K reduced External versus preplant N.
- Intervention effect Trickle N + K reduced internal blotchy ripening versus preplant N.
- Intervention effect Trickle N reduced internal blotchy ripening versus preplant N.
- Intervention effect Trickle applied N + K increased fruit N relative to preplant N.
- Intervention effect Trickle applied N + K increased fruit P relative to preplant N.
- Intervention effect Trickle applied N + K increased fruit K relative to preplant N.
- Intervention effect Trickle applied N + K increased fruit Ca relative to preplant N.
- Intervention effect Trickle applied N + K increased fruit Mg relative to preplant N.
- Intervention effect Trickle applied N increased fruit N relative to preplant N.
- Intervention effect Trickle applied N increased fruit P relative to preplant N.
- Intervention effect Trickle applied N increased fruit K relative to preplant N.
- Intervention effect Trickle applied N increased fruit Ca relative to preplant N.
- Intervention effect Trickle applied N increased fruit Mg relative to preplant N.
- Intervention effect Increasing trickle applied nutrient fraction slightly improved internal fruit quality.
- Intervention effect Exterior quality did not differ significantly across trickle applied nutrient fractions.
- Observation Internal fruit quality was higher early than late in both seasons, without association with fruit mineral concentration.
- Intervention effect Weekly nutrient injection schedule had no significant effect on fruit quality or elemental concentration.
- Observation The highest yield of high quality tomato fruit occurred with 50% trickle applied N and K.