Claim · model-written summary
Raising FeH from 22 to 352 g Fe per tree per year did not significantly increase fruit yield.
- Taxon
- Orange and Grapefruitt0
- Treatment
- from 22 to 352 g Fe per tree per year as FeHe0
- Outcome
- fruit yielde0
- Direction
- did not significantly increasee0
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Verbatim
e0“Further increases in the rate of Fe, from 22 to 352 g Fe per tree per year as FeH, did not significantly increase tree growth, fruit yield, or fruit quality.”
t0“Orange and Grapefruit”
Title
By-product Iron-humate Increases Tree Growth and Fruit Production of Orange and Grapefruit
A.K. Alva; T.A. Obreza HortScience 1998. doi:10.21273/hortsci.33.1.71
Other claims from this paper (9)
- Intervention effect FeH decreased twig dieback in nonbearing citrus trees.
- Intervention effect FeH increased flush growth, color and tree size in nonbearing citrus trees.
- Intervention effect FeH increased leaf Fe concentration in nonbearing citrus trees.
- Intervention effect Adding urea to FeH did not increase iron availability.
- Intervention effect Adding ammonium nitrate to FeH did not increase iron availability.
- Intervention effect Iron amendments at 22 g Fe per tree per year increased fruit yield after one year.
- Intervention effect Raising FeH from 22 to 352 g Fe per tree per year did not significantly increase tree growth.
- Intervention effect Raising FeH from 22 to 352 g Fe per tree per year did not significantly increase fruit quality.
- Observation FeH was an effective iron source for citrus trees in alkaline soil.