Claim · model-written summary
Sokoto local had more vigorous early growth and higher leaf, tiller, clove counts and bulb firmness.
- Taxon
- garlic
Allium sativumt0 - Material
- Sokoto local varietye0
- Outcome
- more vigorous early growthe0
- Direction
- more vigorouse0
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Verbatim
e0“Sokoto local variety demonstrated more vigorous early growth, with higher numbers of leaves, tillers, clove count per bulb, and greater bulb firmness”
t0“garlic”
Title
Onarinde CR; Akanbi WB; Olaniyi JO; et al. International Journal of Agriculture and Food Science 2025. doi:10.33545/2664844x.2025.v7.i3a.488
Other claims from this paper (7)
- Observation Pretty garlic exceeded Sokoto local in all growth and yield parameters.
- Observation Sokoto local had higher leaf and tiller numbers and clove count per bulb.
- Observation Sokoto local had greater bulb firmness.
- Intervention effect 100% compost significantly enhanced vegetative growth.
- Intervention effect 50% NPK plus 50% compost produced the highest bulb yield of 138.67 kg/ha.
- Association Variety and fertilizer type interacted significantly for all collected data.
- Recommendation Authors recommend Pretty garlic with 100 kg/ha NPK 15:15:15 plus 5 tons/ha Tithonia compost for optimum production.