Claim · model-written summary
Delaying tuber harvest increased tuber nitrate contents in the summer-autumn crop.
- Taxon
- potatoes
Solanum tuberosumt0 - Treatment
- delaying tuber harvest until leaf senescencee5
- Outcome
- nitrate contentse6
- Direction
- increasede6
- Setting
- summer-autumn crope6
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Verbatim
e5“In both off-season crops, delaying tuber harvest until leaf senescence increased yield and improved quality attributes such as tuber dry matter content and skin colour”
e6“nitrate contents significantly decreased in the winter-spring crop and increased in the summer-autumn crop”
t0“Tuber yield and quality characteristics of potatoes”
Title
Anita Ierna Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture 2009. doi:10.1002/jsfa.3786
Other claims from this paper (8)
- Intervention effect Tuber yield, skin colour and dry matter content were higher in the winter-spring crop than in the summer-autumn crop.
- Mechanism The higher yield in the winter-spring off-season crop is attributed to the advantageous spring lag between solar radiation and temperatures.
- Observation Spunta and Arinda potatoes performed well within each crop season.
- Observation Ninfa potatoes showed an important yield loss in autumn.
- Intervention effect Delaying tuber harvest until leaf senescence increased yield in both off-season potato crops.
- Intervention effect Delaying tuber harvest until leaf senescence improved tuber dry matter content and skin colour in both off-season potato crops.
- Intervention effect Delaying tuber harvest significantly decreased tuber nitrate contents in the winter-spring crop.
- Association Ninfa potatoes showed less tendency than Arinda and Spunta to accumulate nitrate in tubers.