Claim · model-written summary
Foliar K-fertilization enhanced sweetness index of strawberry fruits by about 13% relative to distilled-water controls.
- Taxon
- strawberry
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Fragaria ×ananassat0 - Organ / stage
- fruitse3
- Treatment
- foliar K-fertilizatione1
- Outcome
- sweetness indexe3
- Direction
- enhancede3
- Value
- approximately 13%e3
- Comparator
- distilled watere2
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Verbatim
t0“Foliar application of potassium-based fertilizer improves strawberry fruit quality”
e1“foliar K-fertilization increased the K concentration by 8-11% in fruits and by 7-5% in leaves”
e2“Control plants were sprayed with distilled water”
e3“strawberry fruits exhibited an enhanced total soluble solids content (approximately 12%) and sweetness index (approximately 13%)”
Title
Foliar application of potassium-based fertilizer improves strawberry fruit quality
F. Valentinuzzi; M. Maver; S. Fontanari; et al. Acta Horticulturae 2018. doi:10.17660/actahortic.2018.1217.48
Other claims from this paper (5)
- Intervention effect Foliar K-fertilization increased potassium concentration in strawberry fruits by 8-11% relative to distilled-water controls.
- Intervention effect Foliar K-fertilization increased potassium concentration in strawberry leaves by 7-5% relative to distilled-water controls.
- Intervention effect Foliar K-fertilization enhanced total soluble solids content of strawberry fruits by about 12% relative to distilled-water controls.
- Intervention effect Other nutraceutical compounds of strawberry fruit were not affected by K treatments.
- Intervention effect Fruit yield of strawberry was not affected by K treatments.