Claim · model-written summary
Split potassium application increased polar bulb diameter to 51.96 mm versus 51.33 mm for full application at transplanting.
- Taxon
- Onion
Allium cepat0 - Treatment
- 50 per cent potassium at transplanting and 50 per cent at 30 DATe0
- Outcome
- polar and equatorial diameter of bulbe0
- Direction
- highere0
- Value
- 51.96e0
- Qualifier
- 51.33e0
- Comparator
- 100 per cent potassium at transplantinge0
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Verbatim
e0“Significantly higher polar and equatorial diameter of bulb with application of 50 per cent potassium at transplanting and 50 per cent at 30 DAT (51.96 and 59.64 mm, respectively) and was significantly superior over application of 100 per cent potassium at transplanting (51.33 and 58.64 mm, respectively)”
t0“Onion (Allium cepa L.)”
Title
Effect of Potassium Levels, Sources and Time of Application on Yield of Onion (Allium cepa L.)
Kumara B. R. International Journal of Pure & Applied Bioscience 2018. doi:10.18782/2320-7051.6395
Other claims from this paper (14)
- Intervention effect At 200% RDK, bulb polar diameter was 53.80 mm.
- Intervention effect At 200% RDK, bulb equatorial diameter was 60.63 mm.
- Intervention effect At 200% RDK, single bulb weight was 105.18g.
- Intervention effect At 200% RDK, plot yield was 20.54 kg/plot.
- Intervention effect At 200% RDK, hectare yield was 48.91 t ha -1.
- Intervention effect SOP gave a maximum polar bulb diameter of 52.09 mm versus 51.25 mm for MOP.
- Intervention effect SOP gave a maximum equatorial bulb diameter of 59.80 mm versus 58.50 mm for MOP.
- Intervention effect SOP increased single bulb weight to 104.52 g versus 99.96 g for MOP.
- Intervention effect SOP increased plot yield to 20.03 kg/plot versus 19.06 kg/plot for MOP.
- Intervention effect SOP and MOP each gave 45.38 t ha -1 despite the stated higher-yield conclusion.
- Intervention effect Split potassium application increased equatorial bulb diameter to 59.64 mm versus 58.64 mm.
- Intervention effect Split potassium application increased single bulb weight to 103.54 g versus 100.94g.
- Intervention effect Split potassium application increased plot yield to 19.87 kg versus 19.20 kg.
- Intervention effect Split potassium application increased hectare yield to 47.31 t ha -1 versus 45.74 t ha -1.