Claim · model-written summary
A spacious tomato ideotype with long internodes and long, narrow leaves increased crop photosynthesis by up to 10%.
- Taxon
- tomato
Solanum lycopersicume1 - Treatment
- more spacious canopy architecture due to long internodes and long and narrow leavese0
- Outcome
- crop photosynthesise0
- Direction
- increasee0
- Value
- up to 10 %e0
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Verbatim
e0“A new plant ideotype with more spacious canopy architecture due to long internodes and long and narrow leaves led to an increase in crop photosynthesis of up to 10 %.”
e1“greenhouse-grown tomato crop”
Title
V. Sarlikioti; P. H. B. de Visser; G. H. Buck-Sorlin; et al. Annals of Botany 2011. doi:10.1093/aob/mcr221
Other claims from this paper (7)
- Intervention effect Increasing top-canopy light absorption by 25% augmented tomato canopy photosynthesis by 6% in winter.
- Intervention effect The same 25% top-canopy light increase reduced tomato canopy photosynthesis by 7% in summer.
- Observation Measured tomato leaf elevation angle, leaflet angle and leaflet arrangement were already optimal for light absorption and photosynthesis.
- Observation Leaf phyllotaxis had no effect on tomato light absorption or photosynthesis.
- Intervention effect Increasing tomato leaf length-to-width ratio by 1.5 increased light absorption and photosynthesis by 6–10%.
- Intervention effect Increasing tomato internode length from 7 to 12 cm increased light absorption and photosynthesis by 6–10%.
- Intervention effect Deeper light penetration improved tomato photosynthesis at summer light intensities, but not at winter light intensities.