Claim · model-written summary
Alternative fertilizers increased head diameter by 4% in the first season versus recommended NPK.
- Taxon
- SUNFLOWER
Helianthus annuust0 - Treatment
- compost, natural mineral rocksandbiofertilizerse0
- Outcome
- head diametere0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Value
- 4%e0
- Qualifier
- first seasone0
- Comparator
- recommend NPK mineral fertilizer dosee0
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageInteractorInteractor roleSecond interactorSecond interactor roleSetting
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Fertilizing with various rates of compost, natural mineral rocksandbiofertilizersincreased head diameter, seed yield /plant, seed yield /faddan and 100-seed weight by 4%, 5%,13% and 5% as compared to plants received recommend NPK mineral fertilizer dose,respectively at the first season”
t0“SUNFLOWER”
Title
N. Mahrous; A. Ragab; H. Abotaleb; et al. Journal of Plant Production 2014. doi:10.21608/jpp.2014.53660
Other claims from this paper (13)
- Intervention effect Alternative fertilizers increased seed yield per plant by 5% in the first season.
- Intervention effect Alternative fertilizers increased seed yield per faddan by 13% in the first season.
- Intervention effect Alternative fertilizers increased 100-seed weight by 5% in the first season.
- Intervention effect Head diameter increased by 4% in the second season.
- Intervention effect Seed yield per plant increased by 8% in the second season.
- Intervention effect Seed yield per faddan increased by 19% in the second season.
- Intervention effect 100-seed weight increased by 3% in the second season.
- Association Variety by fertilizer interaction was not significant for most studied traits.
- Association Variety by fertilizer interaction affected seed oil content in both seasons.
- Association Variety by fertilizer interaction affected seed protein content in both seasons.
- Intervention effect Compost, biofertilizers and mineral rocks raised rhizosphere bacterial counts against untreated treatments.
- Intervention effect Compost, biofertilizers and mineral rocks raised nitrogenase activity.
- Intervention effect Compost, biofertilizers and mineral rocks raised dehydrogenase activity.