Claim · model-written summary
Chelated zinc at 30 ppm significantly enhanced tomato plant height to 86 cm.
- Taxon
- tomato
Solanum lycopersicumt0 - Treatment
- chelated zinc at 30 ppme0
- Outcome
- plant heighte0
- Direction
- enhancede0
- Value
- 86 cme0
- Comparator
- control (T0)e1
- Setting
- Budhanilkantha, Kathmandue1
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Verbatim
e0“The results showed that chelated zinc at 30 ppm significantly enhanced plant height (86 cm), leaf number (52.47), branch number (8.21), fruit clusters (19.32), fruit number (22.73), fruit diameter (5.58 cm), fruit weight (59.71 g), and yield (56.56 t/ha).”
t0“tomato (Solanum lycopersicum cv. Srijana)”
e1“This research was conducted in Budhanilkantha, Kathmandu from February to June 2023 to study the effects of different concentrations on growth, flowering and yield of tomato in Randomized Complete Block Design (RCBD) with five treatments: control (T0)”
Title
Prabina Bhujel; Pankaj Kumar Yadav; Sujan Lamichhane; et al. Archives of Agriculture and Environmental Science 2024. doi:10.26832/24566632.2024.0904014
Other claims from this paper (11)
- Intervention effect Chelated zinc at 30 ppm significantly enhanced tomato leaf number to 52.47.
- Intervention effect Chelated zinc at 30 ppm significantly enhanced tomato branch number to 8.21.
- Intervention effect Chelated zinc at 30 ppm significantly enhanced tomato fruit clusters to 19.32.
- Intervention effect Chelated zinc at 30 ppm significantly enhanced tomato fruit number to 22.73.
- Intervention effect Chelated zinc at 30 ppm significantly enhanced tomato fruit diameter to 5.58 cm.
- Intervention effect Chelated zinc at 30 ppm significantly enhanced tomato fruit weight to 59.71 g.
- Intervention effect Chelated zinc at 30 ppm significantly enhanced tomato yield to 56.56 t/ha.
- Intervention effect Borax at 30 ppm promoted early flowering at 23.70 days.
- Intervention effect Higher concentrations of chelated zinc reduced tomato growth and yield.
- Intervention effect Higher concentrations of borax reduced tomato growth and yield.
- Recommendation The authors recommend foliar application of 30 ppm chelated zinc for tomato growth and yield.