Claim · model-written summary
Fertilizer applications increased leaf tissue concentrations of N, P, K, and S relative to unfertilized plots.
- Taxon
- Wild Blueberryt0
- Treatment
- fertilizer applicationse0
- Outcome
- leaf tissue concentrations of N, P, K, and Se0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Comparator
- unfertilized plotse0
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Verbatim
e0“When comparing the mean of fertilizer applications to unfertilized plots, levels of soil, P, K, and S were increased and soil pH decreased and leaf tissue concentrations of N, P, K, and S were increased.”
t0“Wild Blueberry”
Title
Maritime Provinces Wild Blueberry Fertilizer Study
Kevin Sanderson; Leonard Eaton; Michel Melanson; et al. International Journal of Fruit Science 2008. doi:10.1080/15538360802365939
Other claims from this paper (10)
- Intervention effect Sprout-year ammonium sulfate did not affect soil and leaf concentrations, plant growth, or yield.
- Intervention effect Sprout-year di-ammonium sulfate did not affect soil and leaf concentrations, plant growth, or yield.
- Intervention effect Sprout-year 17-17-17 did not affect soil and leaf concentrations, plant growth, or yield.
- Intervention effect Crop-year ammonium sulfate did not affect soil and leaf concentrations, growth, or yield.
- Intervention effect Fertilizer applications increased soil, P, K, and S relative to unfertilized plots.
- Intervention effect Fertilizer applications decreased soil pH relative to unfertilized plots.
- Intervention effect Fertilizer applications increased stem length, live buds, and blossoms.
- Intervention effect Fertilizer applications did not affect yield in the first cropping cycle.
- Intervention effect Fertilizer applications lowered yield in the second cropping cycle.
- Intervention effect Crop-year ammonium sulfate provided no production benefit.