Claim · model-written summary
Foliar 6 mM Fe significantly enhanced tomato growth.
- Taxon
- tomato
Solanum lycopersicume0 - Treatment
- foliar application of 6 mM Fee0
- Outcome
- growthe0
- Direction
- enhancede0
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e0“foliar application of 6 mM Fe significantly enhanced the tomato’s growth, yield and quality”
t0“0, 1, 3, 6 and 9 mM Fe per plant”
Title
Agronomic biofortification of tomatoes with iron enhances growth, yield and quality
Nabeel Ahmad Ikram; Abdul Ghaffar; Asif Ali Khan; et al. New Zealand Journal of Crop and Horticultural Science 2024. doi:10.1080/01140671.2024.2403461
Other claims from this paper (8)
- Intervention effect Foliar 6 mM Fe significantly enhanced tomato yield.
- Intervention effect Foliar 6 mM Fe significantly enhanced tomato quality.
- Intervention effect At 6 mM Fe, Sandal fruit iron content reached 30.07 mg kg −1, above the control value of 14.77 mg kg −1.
- Intervention effect At 6 mM Fe, Sahel fruit iron content reached 34.1 mg kg −1, above the control value of 15.0 mg kg −1.
- Intervention effect Iron above 6 mM per plant adversely affected tomato growth.
- Intervention effect Iron above 6 mM per plant adversely affected tomato yield.
- Intervention effect Iron above 6 mM per plant adversely affected tomato quality.
- Recommendation Foliar iron was presented as an effective economical commercial biofortification approach.