Claim · model-written summary
A nitrogen rate of 400 mg N/liter increased shoot dry weight of broccoli transplants by 61% compared with 100 mg N/liter.
- Taxon
- broccoli
Brassica oleracea var. italicae2 - Treatment
- N rate of 400e2
- Outcome
- shoot dry weighte2
- Direction
- increasede2
- Value
- 61%e2
- Comparator
- 100 mg N/litere2
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Verbatim
e0“on growth of celery (Apium graveolens L.), lettuce (Luctuca sativa L.), broccoli (Brassica oleracea italica L.), and tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.) transplants in multicellular trays”
e2“Compared with 100 mg N/liter, a N rate of 400 mg·liter -1 increased the shoot dry weight of celery, lettuce, broccoli, and tomato transplants by 37%, 38%, 61%, and 38%, respectively”
Title
Jean Masson; Nicolas Tremblay; André Gosselin Journal of the American Society for Horticultural Science 1991. doi:10.21273/jashs.116.4.594
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- Intervention effect Supplementary lighting increased shoot dry weight of celery transplants by 22%.
- Intervention effect Supplementary lighting increased shoot dry weight of lettuce transplants by 40%.
- Intervention effect Supplementary lighting increased shoot dry weight of broccoli transplants by 19%.
- Intervention effect Supplementary lighting increased shoot dry weight of tomato transplants by 24%.
- Intervention effect Supplementary lighting increased root dry weight of celery transplants by 97%.
- Intervention effect Supplementary lighting increased root dry weight of lettuce transplants by 42%.
- Intervention effect Supplementary lighting increased root dry weight of broccoli transplants by 38%.
- Intervention effect Supplementary lighting increased root dry weight of tomato transplants by 21%.
- Intervention effect A nitrogen rate of 400 mg N/liter increased shoot dry weight of celery transplants by 37% compared with 100 mg N/liter.
- Intervention effect A nitrogen rate of 400 mg N/liter increased shoot dry weight of lettuce transplants by 38% compared with 100 mg N/liter.
- Intervention effect A nitrogen rate of 400 mg N/liter increased shoot dry weight of tomato transplants by 38% compared with 100 mg N/liter.
- Intervention effect A nitrogen rate of 400 mg N/liter increased root dry weight of tomato transplants by 16% compared with 100 mg N/liter.
- Intervention effect Supplementary lighting increased the percentage of shoot dry matter of broccoli transplants.
- Intervention effect Supplementary lighting increased the percentage of shoot dry matter of tomato transplants.
- Intervention effect Supplementary lighting increased leaf area of lettuce transplants.
- Intervention effect Supplementary lighting increased leaf area of broccoli transplants.
- Intervention effect Supplementary lighting increased the root:shoot dry weight ratio of celery transplants.
- Intervention effect Supplementary lighting increased the root:shoot dry weight ratio of broccoli transplants.