Intervention effectmodel-written summary

Applying 22.5 kg per hectare potassium boosted onion growth attributes.

A claim from Response of Onion Growth and Yield to Potassium Application in Alkaline Soils · 2025

Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultpositivemeasured

Claim · model-written summary

Applying 22.5 kg per hectare potassium boosted onion growth attributes.

Taxon
onionAllium cepae0
Treatment
application of 22.5 kg per hectare potassiume0
Outcome
growthe0
Direction
boostse0

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Allium cepa
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“the application of 22.5 kg per hectare potassium boosts both growth and yield attributes of onion.”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 861–959

Title

Response of Onion Growth and Yield to Potassium Application in Alkaline Soils

Mohammad Khalid Rashidi; Hamid Salari; Abdul Raziq Shinwari; et al. Journal of Natural Science Review 2025. doi:10.62810/jnsr.v3i2.200

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potassium · growth · Allium cepa (onion)Positive and negative results

26 papers: 25 positive, 1 negative or no effect

24 papers in the same direction as this claim · 1 in the opposite direction

  1. positive
    Split potassium application increased polar bulb diameter to 51.96 mm versus 51.33 mm for full application at transplanting.

    Effect of Potassium Levels, Sources and Time of Application on Yield of Onion (Allium cepa L.) · 2018 · compared with 100 per cent potassium at transplanting

    Same directionCited by this paper

  2. no effect
    Potassium had no significant impact on shallot height at 2, 3, and 4 MST.

    The Effect of Potassium Fertilizer and Eco-Enzyme on the Growth and Production of Shallots (Allium ascalonicum L.) · 2025

    Opposite direction

  3. positive
    Raising potassium sulphate up to 150 kg/fed significantly affected onion growth characters.

    RESPONSE OF GROWTH AND YIELD OF ONION PLANTS TO POTASSIUM FERTILIZER AND HUMIC ACID. · 2005

    Same direction

  4. positive
    Higher potassium produced more vigorous onion growth in length, leaf number and fresh and dry weight.

    Vegetative Growth and Chemical Parameters of Onion as Influenced by Potassium as Major and Stimufol as Minor Fertilizers · 2011

    Same direction

  5. positive
    The fertilizer and manure combination gave the maximum onion plant height of 50.50 cm.

    Growth and yield of onion (Allium cepa L.) as influenced by application of organic and inorganic fertilizers · 2012

    Same direction

  6. positive
    Combined AMF and potassium silicate treatment produced the maximum increment in onion plant height.

    Effects of Funneliformis mosseae and Potassium Silicate on Morphological and Biochemical Traits of Onion Cultivated under Water Stress · 2022

    Same direction

  7. positive
    The fertilizer combination increased fresh weights of leaves, bulbs, and the whole plant in the first season.

    ONION PLANT GROWTH AND YIELD AS AFFECTED BY NITROGEN, POTASSIUM AND SULPHUR COMBINATIONS UNDER EL-ARISH REGION CONDITIONS · 2016 · compared with control (recommended doses of N, K and S)

    Same direction

  8. positive
    Onion given 120 kg K ha-1 from sulphate of potash had maximum plant height, leaf number and leaf length.

    Productivity of Summer Onion to Different Sources and Levels of Potash · 2017

    Same direction

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