Claim · model-written summary
Partial root drying reduced the growth of whole tomato plants compared with control.
- Taxon
- tomato
Solanum lycopersicumt0 - Treatment
- PRD treatmente2
- Outcome
- growth of whole plantse2
- Direction
- reducede2
- Comparator
- controle2
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Verbatim
t0“tomato fruits”
e2“Obtained results showed that as a consequence of PRD treatment the growth of whole plants was reduced with fruit size and yield of PRD plants being similar to control, as well as morpho-anatomical characteristics of pedicels, ions and lycopen contents although sugar content was higher in PRD than in control plants”
Title
M. Srdic Journal of Agricultural Sciences Belgrade 2004. doi:10.2298/jas0401013s
Other claims from this paper (4)
- Intervention effect Partial root drying left fruit size and yield similar to control.
- Intervention effect Partial root drying left morpho-anatomical characteristics of pedicels, ion contents and lycopene content unchanged from control.
- Intervention effect Partial root drying increased sugar content of tomato fruit compared with control plants.
- Recommendation Partial root drying can halve the demand for irrigation water in tomato.