Claim · model-written summary
High potassium decreased the percentage of hollow fruits.
- Taxon
- Tomatoes
Solanum lycopersicumt0 - Treatment
- high Ke0
- Outcome
- percentage of hollow fruitse0
- Direction
- decreasede0
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Verbatim
t0“Single-Truss Tomatoes”
e0“The percentage of hollow fruits was decreased by high K but increased with N concentration”
Title
P. Adams; G. W. Winsor; J. D. Donald Journal of Horticultural Science 1973. doi:10.1080/00221589.1973.11514512
Other claims from this paper (12)
- Intervention effect Plant height and leaf length of single-truss tomatoes increased markedly with the nitrogen concentration of the nutrient solution.
- Intervention effect The numbers of flowers and of marketable fruits per plant increased with nitrogen concentration.
- Intervention effect Mean fruit weight and total yield increased with nitrogen concentration.
- Intervention effect Low nitrogen levels delayed harvesting.
- Intervention effect The proportion of unevenly ripened fruit decreased with increasing concentrations of both N and K.
- Intervention effect The percentage of hollow fruits increased with nitrogen concentration.
- Intervention effect Titratable acidity of the fruit juices increased significantly with nitrogen concentration (P<0.001).
- Intervention effect Titratable acidity of the fruit juices was little affected by potassium treatment.
- Intervention effect The nitrogen concentration of the nutrient solution largely controlled the percentage of K in the leaves and the total K uptake.
- Mechanism The unexpected nitrogen effects on leaf K and K uptake were attributed to growth stimulation by N, increasing water requirement and hence the application of N and K by the sub-irrigation system.
- Intervention effect The highest yields and best quality fruit were obtained with 250 ppm N and 400 ppm K in the solution.
- Recommendation Lower concentrations of K might be preferable after continued cropping in the same compost.