Claim · model-written summary
Copper had no significant overall effect on tomato yield and grading.
- Taxon
- tomato
Solanum lycopersicume0 - Treatment
- coppere1
- Outcome
- yield and gradinge1
- Direction
- no_changeinferrede1
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageInteractorInteractor roleSecond interactorSecond interactor roleComparatorSettingValueQualifier
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“boron status of tomato leaves”
e1“the overall effects of copper on yield and grading were not significant”
Title
Some Responses of Glasshouse Tomatoes to Boron
P. Adams; G. W. Winsor Journal of Horticultural Science 1974. doi:10.1080/00221589.1974.11514590
Other claims from this paper (9)
- Intervention effect Lime increased the incidence of boron deficiency symptoms in tomato.
- Intervention effect High levels of phosphorus increased the incidence of boron deficiency symptoms in tomato.
- Intervention effect High potassium increased the incidence of boron deficiency symptoms in tomato.
- Intervention effect Lime depressed the boron content of tomato foliage.
- Intervention effect High phosphate depressed the boron content of tomato foliage.
- Intervention effect Boron application to limed plots increased tomato yields by 9%, significant at P<0.01.
- Intervention effect Boron increased the yield of ripe fruit in tomato by 18.3% in glasshouse soil limed to pH 7.2.
- Intervention effect Boron improved the shape and uniformity of tomato ripening.
- Association There was some indication of an interaction between the boron and copper treatments in tomato.