Claim · model-written summary
Water productivity was greatest at 5 mL/L across moisture levels.
- Taxon
- tomato
Solanum lycopersicumt0 - Treatment
- 5 mL L–1e0
- Outcome
- Water productivityt0
- Direction
- maximizede0
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Verbatim
e0“it was maximized at 5 mL L–1 for all soil moisture levels”
t0“water productivity of tomato”
Title
Mostak Ahmed; Hayat Ullah; Kanokkorn Piromsri; et al. South African Journal of Botany 2022. doi:10.1016/j.sajb.2022.09.045
Other claims from this paper (13)
- Intervention effect At 50% field capacity, fruit yield fell 67% in experiment 1.
- Intervention effect At 50% field capacity, fruit yield fell 52% in experiment 2.
- Intervention effect Fruit length fell 11% under severe deficit in both experiments.
- Intervention effect Leaf relative water content fell 25% in experiment 1.
- Intervention effect Leaf relative water content fell 29% in experiment 2.
- Intervention effect Total soluble solids increased 38% in experiment 1.
- Intervention effect Total soluble solids increased 49% in experiment 2.
- Intervention effect Soil drench at 5 mL/L raised yield 225% at 50% FC.
- Intervention effect Foliar spray at 5 mL/L raised yield 271% at 50% FC.
- Intervention effect Untreated plants had lower water productivity at all soil moisture levels.
- Observation A 5 mL/L soil drench produced 523.3 g per plant yield.
- Observation A 5 mL/L foliar spray produced 397.1 g per plant yield.
- Recommendation The authors recommend 5 mL/L ASE for tomato.