Claim · model-written summary
Zn and Mn application increased potato tuber yield per plant.
- Taxon
- potato
Solanum tuberosume0 - Treatment
- Zn and Mn applicatione0
- Outcome
- tuber yield per plante0
- Direction
- increasede0
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Verbatim
e0“Zn and Mn application increased all plant characteristics relating to yield and quality of potato crop. These were tuber yield per plant, dry matter percentage, specific weight, protein and starch contents of the tuber”
Title
Sayed Roholla Mousavi; Mohammad Galavi; Goudarz Ahmadvand Asian Journal of Plant Sciences 2007. doi:10.3923/ajps.2007.1256.1260
Other claims from this paper (14)
- Intervention effect Zn and Mn application increased tuber dry matter percentage and specific weight.
- Intervention effect Zn and Mn application increased tuber protein and starch contents.
- Intervention effect Foliar Zn at 8 ppt produced 34170 kg ha-1 yield, 25% above control.
- Intervention effect Foliar Mn at 4 ppt produced 33866 kg ha-1 yield, 15% above control.
- Intervention effect Mn at 8 ppt decreased potato tuber quality compared with 2 and 4 ppt.
- Intervention effect Mn at 8 ppt decreased potato tuber yield compared with 2 and 4 ppt.
- Intervention effect Combined 8 ppt Zn and 4 ppt Mn gave maximum yield of 38950 kg ha-1.
- Intervention effect Fertilizers significantly affected tuber element percentages.
- Intervention effect Zinc increased tuber Zn percentage.
- Intervention effect Zinc decreased tuber phosphorus percentage.
- Intervention effect Manganese increased tuber Mn percentage.
- Intervention effect Manganese had no significant effect on tuber Zn, P and K.
- Intervention effect Combined Zn and Mn fertilizers increased tuber Zn and Mn percentages.
- Intervention effect Combined Zn and Mn fertilizers decreased tuber P percentage without significance.