Claim · model-written summary
Tomato on pumice plus 50% maize and maize alone had similar elemental nutrient uptake distributions.
- Taxon
- tomato
Solanum lycopersicumt0 - Treatment
- pumice + 50% maizee0
- Outcome
- distributions of elemental nutrient uptakee0
- Direction
- similare0
- Comparator
- maize alonee0
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Verbatim
e0“Plants grown on pumice + 50% maize and maize alone had similar distributions of elemental nutrient uptake.”
t0“tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.)”
Title
Shredded Maize Stems as an Alternative Substrate Medium
Nikos G. Tzortzakis; Costas D. Economakis International Journal of Vegetable Science 2008. doi:10.1300/j512v13n04_09
Other claims from this paper (10)
- Association Tomato nutrient solution absorption increased with days after transplanting and depended partly on radiation and night temperature later in growth.
- Observation Fruit elemental content differed among substrates only for Mn, Cu, B and Na.
- Observation The leaves to fruit ratio favored tomato on pumice plus 50% maize.
- Observation Tomato grown in maize produced the greatest fruit number.
- Observation Tomato grown in maize produced the fewest leaves.
- Association Fruit number had no regression with mean fruit weight.
- Observation Water uptake increased as nutrient uptake increased.
- Observation Tomato on pumice had greater water use efficiency.
- Recommendation Adding 25–50% maize to pumice may improve its substrate properties for tomato soilless culture.
- Recommendation A 50% shredded maize stem and pumice mix could be optimal for protected tomato production under local conditions.