Claim · model-written summary
Vermicompost and Spirulina extract significantly increased lettuce growth and yield relative to control.
- Taxon
- lettuce
Lactuca sativat0 - Treatment
- vermicompost fertilizer at rates of (1, 2 and 3 ton fed -1 ), and foliar spray of spirulina platensis extract (1and 2 gL -1 )e0
- Outcome
- growth characters, yielde0
- Direction
- increasese0
- Comparator
- control treatmente0
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Verbatim
e0“addition of vermicompost fertilizer at rates of (1, 2 and 3 ton fed -1 ), and foliar spray of spirulina platensis extract (1and 2 gL -1 ) within all tested treatments resulted had significant increases promoted growth characters, yieldand chemical composition (N, P, K, Fe, Zn, Mn, Cu, and vitamin C) in leaves and roots as compared to the control treatment.”
t0“Lettuce”
t1“Lettuce”
Title
A Yassen; Entsar Essa; Sahar Zaghloul; et al. Research Journal of Agriculture and Biological Sciences 2019. doi:10.22587/rjabs.2019.14.1.1
Other claims from this paper (3)
- Intervention effect Vermicompost and Spirulina extract significantly increased lettuce leaf and root N, P, K, Fe, Zn, Mn, Cu and vitamin C.
- Intervention effect Vermicompost at 2 ton fed -1 plus Spirulina extract at 2gL -1 gave the highest lettuce growth and yield.
- Intervention effect Lower vermicompost and Spirulina extract reduced lettuce leaf total carbohydrate content.