Claim · model-written summary
1.0% CaCl 2 significantly increased tomato fruit set to 71.2%.
- Taxon
- Tomato
Solanum lycopersicume1 - Treatment
- 1.0% CaCl 2e0
- Outcome
- fruit sete0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Value
- 71.2%e0
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Verbatim
e0“The 1.0% CaCl 2 treatment significantly increased fruit set (71.2%), yield (1.80 kg plant −1 ), firmness (5.47 N), and total soluble solids (5.32°Brix)”
e1“Tomato ( Solanum lycopersicum L.)”
Title
Fouzia Anjum; Sher Muhammad; Badar Naseem Siddiqui; et al. New Zealand Journal of Crop and Horticultural Science 2026. doi:10.1002/nzc2.70098
Other claims from this paper (15)
- Intervention effect 1.0% CaCl 2 significantly increased yield to 1.80 kg per plant.
- Intervention effect 1.0% CaCl 2 significantly increased firmness to 5.47 N.
- Intervention effect 1.0% CaCl 2 significantly increased total soluble solids to 5.32°Brix.
- Intervention effect 1.0% CaCl 2 reduced weight loss to 9.32%.
- Intervention effect 1.0% MgO produced the most flower clusters, 5.29 per plant.
- Intervention effect 1.0% MgO enhanced nutrient uptake.
- Association Calcium correlated positively with firmness, r = 0.92.
- Association Calcium correlated positively with ascorbic acid, r = 0.88.
- Association Calcium correlated negatively with titratable acidity, r = −0.70.
- Association Calcium correlated negatively with fruit weight, r = −0.65.
- Association Magnesium correlated positively with ascorbic acid, r = 0.76.
- Association Magnesium enhanced macronutrient uptake.
- Mechanism The authors interpreted calcium as strengthening cell walls and fruit firmness.
- Mechanism The authors interpreted magnesium as boosting photosynthesis and nutrient balance.
- Recommendation The authors recommended integrated foliar nutrition for tomato yield and quality under controlled conditions.