Claim · model-written summary
Cocopeat and vermiculite produced higher lycopene content of 6.8 mg per 100 g.
- Taxon
- Tomato
Solanum lycopersicumt0 - Treatment
- cocopeat + vermiculite (1:1)e0
- Outcome
- lycopenee0
- Direction
- highere0
- Value
- 6.8 mg/ 100 ge0
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Verbatim
e0“higher ascorbic acid (16.46 mg/100 g) and lycopene (6.8 mg/ 100 g) contents were recorded by cocopeat + vermiculite (1:1)”
t0“Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.)”
Title
T. Subramani; B. Gangaiah; V. Baskaran; et al. International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences 2020. doi:10.20546/ijcmas.2020.905.239
Other claims from this paper (9)
- Intervention effect Cocopeat and sawdust yielded the maximum 12.33 fruits per plant.
- Intervention effect Cocopeat and sawdust yielded the maximum fruit weight of 51.2 g per fruit.
- Intervention effect Cocopeat and sawdust yielded the maximum 631 g per plant.
- Intervention effect Cocopeat and sawdust performed at par with cocopeat, vermiculite and sawdust for fruit production.
- Observation Cocopeat and sawdust was cheaper than cocopeat, vermiculite and sawdust.
- Intervention effect Cocopeat and sawdust produced the maximum TSS of 6.75 ºBrix.
- Intervention effect Cocopeat and vermiculite produced higher ascorbic acid content of 16.46 mg/100 g.
- Observation The soil and FYM control had the lowest growth, yield and quality parameters.
- Recommendation The authors recommend cocopeat and sawdust as sustainable soilless tomato media for island conditions.