Claim · model-written summary
A 0.3% irradiated sodium alginate foliar spray significantly increased potato yield.
- Taxon
- Solanum tuberosum L.
Solanum tuberosumt0 - Treatment
- irradiated sodium alginate (ISA) applied as foliar sprays with concentration 0.3%e0
- Outcome
- plant yielde0
- Direction
- increasee0
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Verbatim
e0“the irradiated sodium alginate (ISA) applied as foliar sprays with concentration 0.3% had a stimulatory effect on specific morphological parameters and led to increase in plant yield significantly”
t0“Solanum tuberosum L.”
Title
Omaima Sayed Hussein; NAHLA Hamideldin IOSR Journal of Agriculture and Veterinary Science 2014. doi:10.9790/2380-07117579
Other claims from this paper (10)
- Intervention effect A 0.3% irradiated sodium alginate foliar spray stimulated potato morphological parameters.
- Intervention effect Treated Bern potato tubers showed a slight nonsignificant increase in total soluble solids before storage.
- Intervention effect Treated Kara potato tubers showed a slight nonsignificant increase in total soluble solids.
- Observation Total soluble solids in treated Bern tubers remained stable after storage.
- Intervention effect Phenol concentrations in treated potato tubers changed significantly before and after storage relative to controls, except Kara before storage.
- Intervention effect Potato tuber starch content changed significantly following treatment.
- Intervention effect Calcium, chlorine and ferrous concentrations declined in potato tubers from ISA-sprayed plants.
- Intervention effect Magnesium became undetectable in Bern potato tubers after ISA spray.
- Intervention effect Sodium concentration decreased in Kara potato tubers after ISA spray.
- Intervention effect Potassium, magnesium and phosphorus concentrations increased in potato tubers after ISA spray.