Claim · model-written summary
High irradiance increased tomato leaf area and leaf, root and stem dry weight relative to lower irradiance.
- Taxon
- Tomatoes
Solanum lycopersicumt0 - Treatment
- High irradiance (14.7 and 8.5 MJ m-2day-1)e0
- Outcome
- leaf area and dry weight, root and stem dry weighte0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Comparator
- lower irradiancee0
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Verbatim
e0“High irradiance (14.7 and 8.5 MJ m-2day-1) increased leaf area and dry weight, root and stem dry weight compared to the plants grown under lower irradiance.”
t0“Tomatoes”
Title
Mohd Razi Ismail; Zainab Ali; Selangor Darul Ehsan Universiti Putra Malaysia Institutional Repository (Universiti Putra Malaysia) 1994
Other claims from this paper (6)
- Intervention effect Shaded tomato plants were up to 5 DC cooler than plants under high irradiance.
- Intervention effect Shading generally lowered tomato water uptake relative to full sun.
- Intervention effect Shading generally lowered tomato leaf nutrient concentrations relative to full sun.
- Observation Tomato fruit production was highest at 14. 7 MJ m-2 day-l irradiance.
- Observation Tomato plants grown under 3.3 MJ m-2 day-J did not fruit.
- Observation Tomato plants grown under 0.87 MJ m-2 day-J did not fruit.