Claim · model-written summary
Silicon lowered blossom end rot incidence relative to untreated plants.
- Taxon
- Solanum lycopersicum
Solanum lycopersicumt0 - Treatment
- application of Si in the nutrient solutione0
- Outcome
- blossom end rot incidencee0
- Direction
- lowere0
- Comparator
- untreated plantse0
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Verbatim
e0“The application of Si in the nutrient solution counteracted these detrimental effects, generating a higher yield and healthier fruit (lower blossom end rot incidence) compared to the untreated plants (no application of Si).”
t0“Solanum lycopersicum”
Title
Andrei Costan; Aristeidis Stamatakis; Antonios Chrysargyris; et al. Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture 2019. doi:10.1002/jsfa.10076
Other claims from this paper (8)
- Intervention effect Salinity reduced tomato plant size.
- Intervention effect Salinity reduced tomato total yield.
- Intervention effect Salinity reduced tomato fresh fruit weight.
- Observation Salinity was associated with a high percentage of blossom end rot symptoms.
- Intervention effect Silicon increased tomato yield relative to untreated plants.
- Intervention effect Salinity improved several fruit quality traits and marketability.
- Intervention effect Preharvest silicon maintained tomato fruit firmness after storage.
- Intervention effect Silicon increased tomato fruit shelf life.