Claim · model-written summary
Twenty minutes of aeration raised tomato net photosynthetic rate by 47.32±5.15%.
- Taxon
- tomatoes
Solanum lycopersicume0 - Treatment
- 20-minute aeratione0
- Outcome
- net photosynthetic ratee0
- Direction
- increasinge0
- Value
- 47.32±5.15 %e0
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Verbatim
e0“with a 20-minute aeration increasing the net photosynthetic rate of tomatoes by 47.32±5.15 % and fruit yield by 9.76±1.48 %.”
Title
Zifan Wang; Na Gao; Yan Li; et al. Scientia Horticulturae 2025. doi:10.1016/j.scienta.2025.114235
Other claims from this paper (11)
- Intervention effect Aeration raised soil oxygen content by as much as 1.38%.
- Intervention effect Twenty minutes of aeration raised fruit yield by 9.76±1.48%.
- Intervention effect Soil aeration promoted tomato vegetative growth.
- Intervention effect Soil aeration led to earlier flowering.
- Intervention effect Fusarium inoculation induced severe tomato root rot.
- Intervention effect Aeration reduced Fusarium abundance in inoculated soil by as much as 91.84%.
- Intervention effect Aeration reduced the root rot disease index by as much as 85.36%.
- Intervention effect Aeration suppressed harmful soil microbial taxa.
- Intervention effect Aeration enhanced beneficial microbial populations.
- Intervention effect Aeration promoted healthy root system development.
- Recommendation The authors recommend aerated cultivation for managing root rot in facility crops.