Claim · model-written summary
Potassium fertilization at 72 kg K2O/fed significantly increased top yield and recoverable sugar yield.
- Taxon
- sugar beet
Beta vulgaris subsp. vulgarise0 - Treatment
- Potassium fertilizatione0
- Outcome
- top yield and recoverable sugar yielde0
- Direction
- significantly increasee0
- Qualifier
- 72 kg K2O fed.-1e0
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Verbatim
e0“Potassium fertilization showed a significantly increaseon sugar beet yields at 48 kg N fed.-1 level as well as 72 kg K2O fed.-1 fortop yield and recoverable sugar yield”
Title
Kamal Attia; A Mohamed; El-Desoky; et al. Assiut Journal of Agricultural Sciences/Assuit Journal of Agricultural Sciences 2016. doi:10.21608/ajas.2016.515
Other claims from this paper (13)
- Intervention effect Raising K from 48 to 72 kg K2O/fed increased top and root fresh and dry weights.
- Intervention effect Raising K from 48 to 72 kg K2O/fed increased sucrose content, sugar recovery and recoverable sugar yield.
- Intervention effect Raising K from 48 to 72 kg K2O/fed increased Fe, Mn and Zn contents.
- Association Recoverable sugar percentage increased as K level increased.
- Intervention effect Foliar zinc application decreased impurities in sugar beet juice.
- Intervention effect Foliar zinc application increased sugar loss to molasses.
- Intervention effect Foliar zinc application increased sucrose percentage.
- Intervention effect Foliar zinc application had no significant effect on recoverable sugar percentage.
- Intervention effect Increasing foliar zinc up to 150 mg/l significantly increased sugar beet yields in most cases.
- Association The potassium by zinc interaction had a significant effect on sodium content in beet roots in both seasons.
- Association The potassium by zinc interaction had a significant effect on K content in beet roots and sugar losses to molasses in the first season.
- Association The potassium by zinc interaction had a significant effect on top yield in the second season.
- Association Increasing potassium level increased sucrose percentage.