Claim · model-written summary
Increasing irrigation water salinity reduced tomato fruit size and fruit water content relative to the non-salinized control.
- Taxon
- Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.
Solanum lycopersicume0 - Treatment
- Increasing water salinitye1
- Outcome
- fruit size and fruit water contente1
- Direction
- reducede1
- Comparator
- non-salinized controle1
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Verbatim
e0“tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.) fruit”
e1“Increasing water salinity from 0.5.dS m-1 (non-salinized control) to 15.7.dS m-1 resulted in both reduced fruit size and fruit water content”
Title
Irrigation with saline water improves carotenoids content and antioxidant activity of tomato
Stefania De Pascale; Albino Maggio; Vincenzo Fogliano; et al. The Journal of Horticultural Science and Biotechnology 2001. doi:10.1080/14620316.2001.11511392
Other claims from this paper (9)
- Intervention effect Increasing irrigation water salinity increased soluble solids and carbohydrate concentrations in tomato fruit relative to the non-salinized control.
- Intervention effect Increasing irrigation water salinity increased sodium and chloride concentrations in tomato fruit relative to the non-salinized control.
- Intervention effect Irrigation with saline water increased titratable acidity of tomato fruit.
- Intervention effect Irrigation with saline water significantly decreased tomato fruit redness.
- Intervention effect Salinity reduced tomato fruit concentrations of P, K+ and Mg2+.
- Intervention effect Salinity reduced tomato fruit NO3- concentration.
- Intervention effect Total carotenoids and lycopene concentrations gradually increased from the non-salinized control to the 4.4 dS m-1 treatment.
- Intervention effect Total carotenoids and lycopene concentrations decreased at irrigation water electrical conductivities higher than 4.4 dS m-1.
- Intervention effect Irrigating tomato with saline water containing NaCl up to 0.25% (w/v) is possible to improve carotenoid content and antioxidative activity, with an acceptable yield reduction.