Claim · model-written summary
Tomato fruit at 10% biosolids with NPK fertilizer at 100 kg ha-1 had the highest lycopene content.
- Taxon
- tomato
Solanum lycopersicume1 - Material
- Maxim F1e6
- Treatment
- 10% BS in combination with NPK fertilizer at 100 kg ha-1e1
- Outcome
- lycopenee1
- Direction
- higheste1
- Value
- 26.1 mg 100 g-1e1
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Verbatim
e1“Results revealed that tomato fruit at 10% BS in combination with NPK fertilizer at 100 kg ha-1had highest β-carotene (6.1 mg 100 g-1), lycopene (26.1 mg 100 g-1), ascorbic acids (128.0 mg 100 g-1), total phenolic acids (13.2 mg 100 g-1), total soluble solids (17%)”
e6“Potted tomatoes ‘Maxim F1’were grown in a randomized complete block design with four replications”
Title
Peter Caleb Otieno; Samuel Nyalala; Joseph Wolukau NASS Journal of Agricultural Sciences 2020. doi:10.36956/njas.v2i2.117
Other claims from this paper (8)
- Intervention effect Tomato fruit at 10% biosolids with NPK fertilizer at 100 kg ha-1 had the highest beta-carotene content.
- Intervention effect Tomato fruit at 10% biosolids with NPK fertilizer at 100 kg ha-1 had the highest ascorbic acid content.
- Intervention effect Tomato fruit at 10% biosolids with NPK fertilizer at 100 kg ha-1 had the highest total phenolic acid content.
- Intervention effect Tomato fruit at 10% biosolids with NPK fertilizer at 100 kg ha-1 had the highest total soluble solids.
- Intervention effect Tomato fruit at 10% biosolids with NPK fertilizer at 100 kg ha-1 had lower titratable acidity.
- Observation Tomato fruit grown with biosolids had heavy metal residues within the permissible level.
- Observation No trace of targeted bacteria was observed on the ready-to-eat tomato.
- Recommendation Biosolids at 10% with NPK fertilizer at 100 kg ha-1 is a better plant nutrient option for quality and safe greenhouse tomato production.