Claim · model-written summary
Combined CaCl2 and Borax increased fruit weight.
- Treatment
- CaCl2 (3%) + Borax (1.5%)e0
- Outcome
- fruit weighte0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Value
- 20.79e0
- Comparator
- control fruitse0
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Verbatim
e0“CaCl2 + Borax (Na2B4O7·10H2O) application increased the fruit weight (19.87 g), pulp weight (14.88 g) and pulp dry weight (13.76%) in control fruits to the maximum of 20.79, 15.69 g and 15.40% respectively with CaCl2 (3%) + Borax (1.5%)”
t0“LITCHI CULTIVARS”
Title
FOLIAR APPLICATION OF CALCIUM CHLORIDE AND BORAX ENHANCE THE FRUIT QUALITY OF LITCHI CULTIVARS
I. Haq; Abdul Rab; Muhammad Sajid The Journal of Animal and Plant Sciences 2013
Other claims from this paper (19)
- Observation Gola had highest fruit weight.
- Observation Gola had highest pulp weight.
- Observation Gola had highest TSS.
- Observation Gola had highest total sugars.
- Observation Gola had highest reducing sugars.
- Observation Gola had highest specific gravity.
- Observation Bedana had highest non-reducing sugars.
- Intervention effect Calcium chloride alone had no significant effect on most quality variables.
- Intervention effect Combined CaCl2 and Borax increased pulp weight.
- Intervention effect Combined CaCl2 and Borax increased pulp dry weight.
- Intervention effect CaCl2 alone did not change three sugar measures.
- Intervention effect Combined foliar CaCl2 and Borax significantly increased three sugar measures.
- Intervention effect CaCl2 increased fruit weight versus control.
- Intervention effect CaCl2 increased pulp weight versus control.
- Intervention effect CaCl2 increased pulp dry weight % versus control.
- Intervention effect CaCl2 plus Borax further increased fruit weight.
- Intervention effect CaCl2 plus Borax further increased pulp weight.
- Intervention effect CaCl2 plus Borax further increased pulp dry weight %.
- Intervention effect Combined foliar CaCl2 and Borax gave higher fruit and pulp weights and pulp dry weight than CaCl2 alone.