Claim · model-written summary
Potassium application increased crude protein content by 7.9 %.
- Taxon
- Potato
Solanum tuberosumt0 - Treatment
- K applicatione0
- Outcome
- crude protein contente0
- Direction
- increasee0
- Value
- 7.9 %e0
- Comparator
- no K applicatione0
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageInteractorInteractor roleSecond interactorSecond interactor roleSettingQualifier
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Verbatim
e0“K application could significantly increase the yield (19.2 %), starch content (6.7 %), crude protein content (7.9 %), vitamin C content (9.6 %), and K uptake (40.5 %), and significantly decrease the reducing sugar content (16.1 %) compared with no K application.”
t0“Potato”
Title
Fan Zhang; Xiukang Wang; Hao He; et al. Field Crops Research 2025. doi:10.1016/j.fcr.2025.110061
Other claims from this paper (14)
- Intervention effect Potassium application increased potato yield by 19.2 %.
- Intervention effect Potassium application increased starch content by 6.7 %.
- Intervention effect Potassium application increased vitamin C content by 9.6 %.
- Intervention effect Potassium application increased K uptake by 40.5 %.
- Intervention effect Potassium application decreased reducing sugar content by 16.1 %.
- Association Higher rainfall and temperature favored optimal increases in tuber yield and K uptake but did not favor quality.
- Intervention effect KNO 3 application improved yield more than K 2 SO 4 and KCl.
- Intervention effect Split K 2 SO 4 application improved starch and vitamin C at the stated rate and density.
- Intervention effect Split K 2 SO 4 application improved K uptake at the stated rate and density.
- Recommendation The optimal potassium rate for northeast China was 76.1 kg ha –1.
- Recommendation The optimal potassium rate for northwest China was 170.3 kg ha –1.
- Recommendation The optimal potassium rate for southwest China was 168.7 kg ha –1.
- Recommendation The optimal potassium rate for north China was 225.8 kg ha –1.
- Recommendation The optimal potassium rate for southeast China was 146.6 kg ha –1.