Claim · model-written summary
Plants growing under 50% shading had better rhizome quality than plants in full sun.
- Taxon
- Curcuma longa
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Curcuma longae0 - Treatment
- growing 50% shadinge1
- Outcome
- quality of rhizomese1
- Direction
- bettere1
- Comparator
- full sun cultivatione1
- Setting
- city of Santaréme2
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Verbatim
e0“Curcuma longa L.”
e1“The plants obtained in treatment T1 (growing 50% shading), after completing the growth cycle, have showed better quality of rhizomes than in the treatment T2 (full sun cultivation)”
e2“experimental cultivation in the region of Lower Amazon River, city of Santarém”
Title
Adrielle Nara Bezerra; Ricardo B. de Oliveira; Rodrigo da Silva; et al. Revista Fitos 2016. doi:10.5935/2446-4775.20160022
Other claims from this paper (11)
- Intervention effect Productivity of 50% shading plants was higher than that of full-sun plants, at 14.86 tonnes/ha fresh rhizomes.
- Association Oil yield was 200% higher in young leaves (3.19%) than in mature leaves (1.71%).
- Intervention effect Rhizome oil yield was greater under full sunlight than under 50% shading.
- Observation α-phellandrene was a main constituent of the leaf oil, at 33.6% in young and 26.2% in mature leaves.
- Observation Terpinolene was a main constituent of the leaf oil, at 22.0% in young and 18.3% in mature leaves.
- Observation 1,8-cineole was a main constituent of the leaf oil, at 16.0% in young and 15.8% in mature leaves.
- Observation p-cymene was a constituent of the leaf oil, at 3.8% in young and 9.8% in mature leaves.
- Observation β-pinene was a constituent of the leaf oil, at 4.9% in young and 7.2% in mature leaves.
- Observation Turmerone was a rhizome oil constituent, at T1 37.5% and T2 38.5%.
- Observation Curlone was a rhizome oil constituent, at T1 17.4% and T2 30.4%.
- Observation Ar-turmerone was a rhizome oil constituent, at T1 9.3% and T2 8.8%.