Claim · model-written summary
Nitrogen–phosphorus interaction did not significantly affect studied onion parameters.
- Taxon
- onion
Allium cepat0 - Treatment
- interaction with Ne0
- Outcome
- parameters studiede0
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Verbatim
e0“Nitrogen showed significant effects in all of the parameters studied, while P fertilization and its interaction with N did not”
t0“onion ( Allium cepa L.)”
Title
Y. Abdissa; T. Tekalign; L. M. Pant African Journal of Agricultural Research 2011. doi:10.5897/ajar10.1024
Other claims from this paper (19)
- Intervention effect Nitrogen significantly affected all studied onion parameters.
- Intervention effect Phosphorus did not significantly affect studied onion parameters.
- Intervention effect 69 kg N ha-1 decreased bolters per plot by 11.
- Intervention effect 92 kg N ha-1 decreased bolters per plot by 22%.
- Intervention effect N fertilization extended days to physiological maturity by about 6 days.
- Intervention effect 69 kg N ha-1 increased plant height by about 10.
- Intervention effect 69 kg N ha-1 increased leaf length by 11.5%.
- Intervention effect 92 kg N ha-1 increased Number of leaves by about 8%.
- Intervention effect N fertilization not influenced Leaf diameter and bulb length.
- Intervention effect N fertilization increased bulb diameter by about 12.
- Intervention effect N fertilization increased average bulb weight by 21.5%.
- Intervention effect 69 kg N ha-1 increased splitted bulbs by about 45%.
- Intervention effect 69 kg N ha-1 increased average bulb weight by 24%.
- Intervention effect 69 kg N ha-1 increased total dry biomass by 20%.
- Intervention effect 69 kg N ha-1 increased harvest index by about 4%.
- Intervention effect 69 kg N ha-1 increased total bulb yield by 18%.
- Intervention effect 69 kg N ha-1 increased marketable bulb yield by 17%.
- Recommendation The authors judged 69 kg N ha-1 optimal for fresh bulb yield.
- Recommendation The authors advised against phosphorus fertilization for onion production.