Claim · model-written summary
High-K application increased potato yield by 11.66% compared with low-K application.
- Taxon
- potato
Solanum tuberosume1 - Treatment
- high-Ke1
- Outcome
- potato yieldse1
- Direction
- increasede1
- Value
- 11.66%e1
- Comparator
- low-K applicatione1
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Verbatim
e1“Compared with the low-K application, the medium-K and high-K applications increased potato yields by 8.08% and 11.66%”
Title
Optimal K Management Improved Potato Yield and Soil Microbial Community Structure
Huan Zhao; Hai Liu; Houjun Xiao; et al. Sustainability 2022. doi:10.3390/su14116579
Other claims from this paper (10)
- Intervention effect Medium-K application increased potato yield by 8.08% compared with low-K application.
- Intervention effect The mean commodity rate of potato tubers over 4 years was significantly greater under medium-K than under low-K and high-K treatments.
- Intervention effect Medium-K application significantly enhanced the sustainable yield index by 7.93% relative to low-K application.
- Intervention effect High-K application significantly enhanced the sustainable yield index by 9.34% relative to low-K application.
- Intervention effect Medium-K treatment improved total soil PLFA content by 11.91% compared with zero-K treatment.
- Intervention effect Medium-K treatment improved total soil PLFA content by 16.84% compared with low-K treatment.
- Intervention effect Medium-K treatment improved total soil PLFA content by 11.66% compared with high-K treatment.
- Intervention effect Medium-K application increased soil bacterial and actinomycete PLFA contents.
- Intervention effect Medium-K application increased soil gram-positive and gram-negative bacterial PLFA contents.
- Recommendation Applying 150 kg K ha-1 year-1 is proposed as a promising fertilization strategy for potato cropping systems in Southwest China.