Claim · model-written summary
Top dressing gave the lowest onion weight loss after two, four and six months storage.
- Taxon
- ONION
Allium cepat0 - Treatment
- top dressinge0
- Outcome
- weight loss%e0
- Direction
- loweste0
- Qualifier
- after storing for 2, 4 and 6 monthse0
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Verbatim
e0“Application of nitrogen by top dressing appeared the lowest values of weight loss% after storing for 2, 4 and 6 months in both season.”
t0“ONION”
Title
R Marey; L Geries; C Abbes; et al. Journal of Sustainable Agricultural Sciences 2016. doi:10.21608/jsas.2016.3115
Other claims from this paper (14)
- Intervention effect Nitrogen dose significantly affected onion growth and maturity traits in both seasons.
- Intervention effect Nitrogen dose significantly affected onion bulb length, weight and days to maturity.
- Intervention effect 120 kg N with starter fertilizer gave the highest onion plant height, leaf number and bulb diameter.
- Intervention effect 120 kg N with starter fertilizer gave the highest onion plant weight and days to maturity.
- Intervention effect Top dressing gave the largest vegetative growth values except bulb diameter in the first season.
- Intervention effect Nitrogen dose significantly affected onion bulb weight and total and marketable yields.
- Intervention effect Nitrogen dose significantly affected onion culls yield.
- Intervention effect 120 kg N with starter fertilizer gave the highest onion bulb weight, total yield and marketable yield.
- Intervention effect Top dressing gave maximum onion bulb weight, total yield and marketable yield.
- Intervention effect 120 kg N per feddan with starter fertilizer maximized onion TSS in both seasons.
- Intervention effect 120 kg N per feddan with starter fertilizer maximized onion dry matter in the second season.
- Intervention effect Top dressing produced the largest onion TSS and dry matter values.
- Intervention effect 60 kg N per feddan without starter fertilizer gave the lowest weight loss after two months storage.
- Recommendation Authors recommend 120 kg N per feddan with starter fertilizer by top dressing for onion production.