Claim · model-written summary
All calcium nitrate treatments increased potato tuber yield substantially relative to the control.
- Taxon
- Solanum tuberosum L.
Solanum tuberosume0 - Treatment
- calcium nitratee6
- Outcome
- tubers yielde6
- Direction
- increasee6
- Comparator
- Control plantse7
- Setting
- Lourinhã (Portugal)e1
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Verbatim
e0“Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) is a widely consumed and essential food crop globally”
e1“produced in Lourinhã (Portugal) in 2018”
e6“all the calcium nitrate treatments demonstrated a substantial increase in tubers yield, which varied between 2.3 (4 kg/ha Ca(NO3)2) and 24.3% (2 kg/ha Ca(NO3)2)”
e7“Control plants and plants subjected to the different Ca treatments were placed in plots of 20 × 24 m”
Title
Ana Rita F. Coelho; Inês Carmo Luís; Ana Coelho Marques; et al. The 2nd International Online Conference on Agriculture 2023. doi:10.3390/iocag2023-15920
Other claims from this paper (6)
- Intervention effect Foliar 6 kg/ha CaCl2 gave the highest Ca content in potato tubers at harvest among the treatments.
- Observation The Ca biofortification index with calcium chloride or calcium nitrate ranged between 5 and 40 percent across treatments.
- Intervention effect 1 kg/ha CaCl2 gave the lowest Ca biofortification index among the treatments.
- Intervention effect Despite the highest tuber Ca content, 6 kg/ha CaCl2 was not the treatment with the highest tuber yield.
- Intervention effect 2 kg/ha calcium nitrate gave a 24.3 percent tuber yield increase, the upper end of the reported range.
- Intervention effect 4 kg/ha calcium nitrate gave a 2.3 percent tuber yield increase, the lower end of the reported range.