Claim · model-written summary
Raising CO2 from 600 to 1200 vpm increased early ripe marketable yield by 15%.
- Taxon
- Tomatoes
Solanum lycopersicumt0 - Treatment
- 1200 vpme0
- Outcome
- earlye0
- Direction
- increasese0
- Value
- 15%e0
- Comparator
- 600e0
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Verbatim
t0“Tomatoes”
e0“An increase in CO2 concentration from 600 to 1200 vpm resulted in overall increases of 15% and 8% in the early and final yields of ripe marketable fruit respectively”
Title
Light-Modulated Temperature Control and the Response of Greenhouse Tomatoes to Different CO2Regimes
D.W. Hand; R.W. Soffe Journal of Horticultural Science 1971. doi:10.1080/00221589.1971.11514417
Other claims from this paper (6)
- Intervention effect Light-modulated temperature raised marketable fruit yield by 26% after six picking weeks.
- Intervention effect Light-modulated temperature raised marketable fruit yield by 9% after 22 picking weeks.
- Intervention effect Raising CO2 from 600 to 1200 vpm increased final ripe marketable yield by 8%.
- Intervention effect Light-modulated temperature advanced half-harvest by five days compared with steady temperature.
- Intervention effect CO2 enrichment to 1200 vpm advanced cropping by three days relative to 600 vpm.
- Observation J172 ranked best in marketable yield and estimated gross monetary returns.