Claim · model-written summary
More frequent precipitation was associated with thicker tomato pericarp.
- Taxon
- tomato
Solanum lycopersicume0 - Treatment
- precipitatione0
- Outcome
- pericarpe0
- Direction
- thickere0
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageInteractorInteractor roleSecond interactorSecond interactor roleComparatorSettingValueQualifier
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Verbatim
e0“The tomato fruit formed a thicker pericarp when precipitation was more frequent”
Title
Elżbieta Jędrszczyk; Barbara Skowera; Maria Gawęda; et al. Journal of Horticultural Research 2016. doi:10.1515/johr-2016-0008
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- Association Fruit length and width were negatively correlated with total early precipitation.
- Association Temperature benefited fruit length and width through the growing period.