Claim · model-written summary
Spraying sugar beet root piles with Mepiquat chloride at 1.0 cm/L gave the highest fresh weight, length and diameter.
- Taxon
- sugar beet
Beta vulgaris subsp. vulgarise0 - Treatment
- spraying piles of sugar beet roots with Mepiquat chloride at 1.0 cm/Le0
- Outcome
- root fresh weight/plant, root length and diametere0
- Direction
- higheste0
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Verbatim
e0“The highest values of root fresh weight/plant, root length and diameter and lowest root weight loss percentages and infestation percentages of sugar beet roots were recorded when spraying piles of sugar beet roots with Mepiquat chloride at 1.0 cm/L.”
Title
Saleh Seadh; M. Abdel-Moneam; M. Ibrahim; et al. Journal of Plant Production 2021. doi:10.21608/jpp.2021.178931
Other claims from this paper (8)
- Intervention effect Shading gave the highest root fresh weight, length and diameter.
- Intervention effect Shading gave the highest infestation percentage.
- Intervention effect Shading gave the lowest root weight loss percentage.
- Intervention effect Covering root piles with sugar beet foliage gave the highest fresh weight, length and diameter.
- Intervention effect Covering root piles with sugar beet foliage gave the lowest root weight loss percentage.
- Intervention effect Spraying sugar beet root piles with Mepiquat chloride at 1.0 cm/L gave the lowest root weight loss percentage.
- Intervention effect Spraying sugar beet root piles with Mepiquat chloride at 1.0 cm/L gave the lowest infestation percentage.
- Recommendation The authors recommend shading, sugar beet foliage cover and Mepiquat chloride spray at 1.0 cm/L to reduce postharvest root losses.