Claim · model-written summary
Potassium added to saline water improved fruit weight.
- Taxon
- tomato
Solanum lycopersicumt0 - Treatment
- potassium (K)e0
- Outcome
- weighte0
- Direction
- improvemente0
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Verbatim
e0“improvement in weight was achieved when potassium (K) and calcium (Ca) were added to the saline water”
t0“tomato”
Title
Salinity induced changes in vegetative and reproductive growth in tomato
S. M. E. Satti; M. Lopez; Fahad A. Al‐Said Communications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis 1994. doi:10.1080/00103629409369057
Other claims from this paper (11)
- Intervention effect Saline irrigation significantly reduced tomato stem height and leaf number relative to controls.
- Observation Pearson had the most flowers and Strain B the fewest.
- Association Fruit set and yield were little affected by varietal differences.
- Association Fruit set and yield were not related to vegetative growth.
- Intervention effect NaCl stress suppressed fruit weight.
- Intervention effect Calcium added to saline water improved fruit weight.
- Intervention effect NaCl stress reduced tomato biomass yield.
- Intervention effect Calcium supplementation increased Pearson relative dry weight to 60%.
- Intervention effect Calcium supplementation increased Monte Carlo relative dry weight to 54%.
- Observation Biomass differed substantially among varieties under NaCl and control conditions.
- Intervention effect Salinization improved tomato fruit TSS.