Claim · model-written summary
Boron application improved reducing sugars, total sugars and vitamin C.
- Taxon
- tomato
Solanum lycopersicumt0 - Treatment
- B applicatione0
- Outcome
- reducing sugars, total sugars, vitamin Ce0
- Direction
- improvede0
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Verbatim
e0“Quality parameters like reducing sugars, total sugars, vitamin C, and lycopene concentrations also improved following B application.”
t0“tomato”
Title
V. K. Jyolsna; Usha Mathew Journal of Tropical Agriculture 2008
Other claims from this paper (7)
- Intervention effect Boron significantly increased tomato plant height and primary branch number.
- Intervention effect Boron reduced days to tomato flowering.
- Intervention effect Highest boron application increased fruit set by 12.5 to 20% with or without FYM.
- Intervention effect The highest boron level with RDF increased benefit cost ratio by 40% relative to RDF alone.
- Intervention effect Boron application improved lycopene concentration.
- Observation Boron soil availability reached 2 mg kg–1 sufficiency at 0.5 kg ha–1 applied B.
- Recommendation The authors advise caution with higher boron doses.