Claim · model-written summary
Digestate increased substrate potassium by 134.4%.
- Taxon
- Basil
Ocimum basilicumt0 - Treatment
- Digestate applicatione0
- Outcome
- potassiume0
- Direction
- increasinge0
- Value
- 134.4%e0
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Verbatim
e0“Digestate application substantially enhanced substrate nutrient availability, increasing extractable phosphorus by 68.5%, potassium by 134.4%, and organic matter by 54.7%.”
t0“Basil”
t1“Basil”
Title
Argyrios Kalaitzidis; Eirini Sarrou; Dimitrios Katsantonis; et al. Crops 2026. doi:10.3390/crops6020022
Other claims from this paper (13)
- Intervention effect Combined mineral fertilizer and digestate gave the highest total biomass.
- Intervention effect Combined mineral fertilizer and digestate gave the highest leaf production.
- Intervention effect Digestate increased substrate extractable phosphorus by 68.5%.
- Intervention effect Digestate increased substrate organic matter by 54.7%.
- Intervention effect Control basil plants had significantly higher essential oil yield.
- Intervention effect fertilization with digestate favored sesquiterpenes synthesis.
- Intervention effect inorganic fertilization enhanced methyleugenol and β-farnesene synthesis.
- Intervention effect control higher limonene, eugenol, and linalool.
- Observation Heavy metal accumulation in the substrate was negligible.
- Observation Salmonella was not detected.
- Observation Pathogen concentration in the growing substrate was low.
- Observation Enterococcus faecalis on leaves was just below the EU safety limit.
- Recommendation The authors recommend monitoring soil chemistry and plant products after digestate use.