Claim · model-written summary
Proportion of dry matter as starch was increased in young fruit by high salinity.
- Taxon
- Tomato
Solanum lycopersicume0 - Treatment
- high salinitye1
- Outcome
- starche1
- Direction
- increasede1
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Verbatim
e0“Tomato plants were grown from three successive sowings in nutrient film culture at different salinities”
e1“The proportion of dry matter as sugars or starch in the young fruit was decreased or increased, respectively, by high salinity”
Title
D. L. Ehret; L.C. Ho Journal of Horticultural Science 1986. doi:10.1080/14620316.1986.11515714
Other claims from this paper (9)
- Intervention effect Total plant dry weight and dry matter partitioning were not affected at 2, 4 and 6 mS salinity.
- Intervention effect Total plant dry weight was reduced by 19% at 10 mS compared with 2 mS.
- Intervention effect Proportional partitioning of dry matter into organs was unaffected at 10 mS.
- Intervention effect Proportion of total plant weight in fruit was only slightly reduced at 17 mS.
- Intervention effect Increase in fruit fresh weight was markedly reduced by high solution conductivities.
- Intervention effect Fresh weight of mature fruit at 17 mS was 40% less than at 2 mS.
- Intervention effect Dry matter accumulation by individual fruit was not affected by salinity.
- Intervention effect Percentage dry matter of fruit was markedly increased by high salinity.
- Intervention effect Proportion of dry matter as sugars was decreased in young fruit by high salinity.