Claim · model-written summary
Increasing K in the nutrient solution increased the edible biomass index of sweetpotato, though not significantly.
- Taxon
- sweetpotato
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Ipomoea batatase0 - Treatment
- K was increased in the nutrient solutione2
- Outcome
- edible biomass indexe2
- Direction
- increasede2
- Setting
- greenhousee0
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Verbatim
e0“growth of `TI-155' sweetpotato [Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam] was evaluated in a greenhouse”
e2“Storage root fresh and dry weights, growth rate (g m -2 d -1 ), fibrous root dry weight, foliage fresh and dry weights, and edible biomass index (root mass/total plant mass), though not significant all increased as K was increased in the nutrient solution”
Title
ALTERING NUTRIENT SOLUTION N:K RATIO TO INCREASE YIELDS OF SWEETPOTATO GROWN IN NFT
D.G. Mortley; P A. Loretan; A.A Trotman; et al. HortScience 1994. doi:10.21273/hortsci.29.7.731b
Other claims from this paper (5)
- Intervention effect Increasing K in the nutrient solution linearly increased the number of storage roots per sweetpotato plant.
- Intervention effect Increasing K in the nutrient solution increased storage root fresh and dry weights and growth rate, though not significantly.
- Intervention effect Increasing K in the nutrient solution increased fibrous root dry weight and foliage fresh and dry weights, though not significantly.
- Intervention effect K uptake was greatest in sweetpotato plants at the highest K level.
- Observation Nitrate uptake by sweetpotato was steady over the crop growth regardless of treatments.