Claim · model-written summary
calcium silicate increased tomato fruit weight
- Taxon
- tomato
Solanum lycopersicumt0 - Treatment
- calciume0
- Outcome
- fruit weighte0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Comparator
- the controle0
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Verbatim
t0“Tuta absoluta (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae) and improve field performance of tomato (Solanum lycopersicum)”
e0“Both treatments reduced leaf mines, increased fruit weight, and enhanced yield to 18.73 t/ha (potassium) and 23.61 t/ha (calcium), compared with 13.26 t/ha in the control.”
Title
Samaneh Akbari; Shahram Aramideh; Mahdieh Mousavi Scientific Reports 2026. doi:10.1038/s41598-026-51521-y
Other claims from this paper (17)
- Intervention effect potassium prolonged Tuta absoluta immature development to 26.44
- Intervention effect calcium silicates prolonged Tuta absoluta immature development to 28.37 days
- Intervention effect potassium silicate shortened Tuta absoluta oviposition period to 9.56
- Intervention effect calcium silicate shortened Tuta absoluta oviposition period to 8.04 days
- Intervention effect potassium silicate reduced Tuta absoluta fecundity to 106.52
- Intervention effect calcium silicate reduced Tuta absoluta fecundity to 63.28 eggs
- Intervention effect potassium silicate reduced Tuta absoluta intrinsic rate of increase to 0.126 day −1
- Intervention effect calcium silicate reduced Tuta absoluta intrinsic rate of increase to 0.105 day −1
- Intervention effect potassium silicate reduced Tuta absoluta net reproductive rate to 63.91
- Intervention effect calcium silicate reduced Tuta absoluta net reproductive rate to 35.15
- Intervention effect potassium silicate reduced Tuta absoluta leaf mines
- Intervention effect potassium silicate increased tomato fruit weight
- Intervention effect calcium silicate reduced Tuta absoluta leaf mines
- Intervention effect potassium silicate increased tomato yield to 18.73 t/ha
- Intervention effect calcium silicate increased tomato yield to 23.61 t/ha
- Intervention effect Calcium silicate produced the lowest postharvest weight loss after 14 days
- Intervention effect Calcium silicate produced the lowest postharvest decay rate after 14 days