Claim · model-written summary
Levulinic acid and potassium levulinate treatments significantly increased starch and vitamin C contents of pepper fruits.
- Taxon
- Hot Pepper
Capsicum frutescenst0 - Organ / stage
- fruitse1
- Treatment
- Levulinic acid and potassium levulinatee1
- Outcome
- contents of starch and vitamin Ce1
- Direction
- increasede1
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Verbatim
t0“Effects of Low-molecular Organic Acids Spray on Growth,Nutrient Uptake,Yield and Fruit Quality of Hot Pepper”
e1“Levulinic acid and potassium levulinate treatments significantly increased the contents of starch and vitamin C in pepper fruits”
Title
Weiling Wang Xibei nongye xuebao 2013
Other claims from this paper (14)
- Intervention effect Organic acid spray increased plant height and stem diameter of hot pepper.
- Intervention effect Organic acid spray reduced root dry mass of hot pepper.
- Intervention effect Organic acid spray had no significant impact on uptake of N, P and K in soil.
- Intervention effect Organic acid spray decreased the distribution rates of N and P in hot pepper fruits.
- Intervention effect Formic acid, levulinic acid and potassium levulinate spray significantly enhanced pepper yield.
- Intervention effect Potassium levulinate treatment gave the highest pepper yield (99.5 g/plant), above levulinic acid.
- Observation Levulinic acid spray gave a pepper yield of 98.2 g/plant.
- Intervention effect Organic acid spray had no significant impact on total fruit number, red fruit number and single fruit mass.
- Intervention effect Organic acid spray had no significant impact on single fruit dry mass and fruit shape index.
- Intervention effect Acetic acid, propionic acid and citric acid treatments significantly increased the edible part of hot pepper.
- Intervention effect Oxalic acid treatment significantly increased soluble sugar content of pepper fruits.
- Intervention effect Oxalic acid treatment significantly reduced crude fiber content of pepper fruits.
- Intervention effect Levulinic acid and potassium levulinate treatments significantly increased colour value of hot pepper.
- Recommendation Potassium levulinate spray had the best effect on improving yield and quality of hot pepper.