Claim · model-written summary
Zinc fertilization did not significantly affect tuber yield in either season.
- Taxon
- Potato
Solanum tuberosumt0 - Treatment
- Zn fertilizatione0
- Outcome
- tuber yielde0
- Direction
- did not significantly affecte0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“In both seasons, Zn fertilization did not significantly affect tuber yield.”
t0“Potato”
Title
Soil Application of Zinc for Potato Biofortification in the Central Andes of Peru
Fernando Chung-Montoya; Victorio Melendres-Herrera; Vanessa Pilatarzi-Vilchez; et al. Journal of soil science and plant nutrition 2026. doi:10.1007/s42729-026-03066-2
Other claims from this paper (14)
- Intervention effect At 16 kg Zn ha⁻¹, tuber Zn content increased by up to 86% in 2016–2017.
- Intervention effect At 16 kg Zn ha⁻¹, tuber Zn accumulation increased by 74% in 2016–2017.
- Observation Estimated dietary contribution rose by 79%.
- Observation Achoscuyo had the highest response and Lucma the lowest.
- Observation Site differences were more evident at intermediate and high doses.
- Observation In 2017–2018, shoot Zn accumulation exceeded tuber accumulation by up to 2.8-fold.
- Observation Peel Zn content was twice flesh Zn content.
- Observation Maximum Zn content and accumulation varied among varieties and doses.
- Observation Canchán showed high Zn content and accumulation at 16 kg Zn ha⁻¹.
- Observation Perricholi showed high Zn content and accumulation at 16 kg Zn ha⁻¹.
- Association Zn dose was positively associated with Zn content.
- Association Zn dose was negatively associated with tuber yield.
- Association Response to Zn fertilization depended on site, dose, and genotype.
- Observation Selecting varieties with high tuber Zn accumulation improved nutritional outcomes and fertilizer use efficiency.