Claim · model-written summary
Vermicompost alone or in mixtures improved antioxidant activity.
- Taxon
- Beta vulgaris L. var. cycla
Beta vulgarist0 - Treatment
- Vermicompost, alone or in mixture, respectively, with the two biocharse0
- Outcome
- antioxidant activitye0
- Direction
- positive effecte0
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Verbatim
e0“Vermicompost, alone or in mixture, respectively, with the two biochars, increased the content of specialized metabolites, with a positive effect on antioxidant activity”
t0“Beta vulgaris L. var. cycla”
Title
Angela Libutti; Daniela Russo; Ludovica Lela; et al. Plants 2023. doi:10.3390/plants12030569
Other claims from this paper (9)
- Intervention effect Vermicompost alone increased plant height, leaf area and yield relative to untreated soil and biochars alone.
- Intervention effect Vermicompost with vine pruning biochar increased plant height, leaf area and yield relative to untreated soil and biochars alone.
- Intervention effect Vermicompost alone had lower leaf total N and nitrate than ammonium nitrate alone.
- Intervention effect Vermicompost mixtures with the biochars had lower leaf total N and nitrate than corresponding ammonium nitrate mixtures.
- Observation Leaf nitrate was within European Commission safe thresholds.
- Intervention effect Biochars alone produced very low yield and leaf total N.
- Observation Leaf nitrate was undetectable with biochars alone and in untreated soil.
- Intervention effect Vermicompost alone or in mixtures increased specialized metabolites.
- Recommendation The authors suggest organic amendments, particularly compost, as an alternative to chemical fertilizers for balancing yield and food quality.