Claim · model-written summary
The amendment increased root length and root surface area twofold compared with untreated plants.
- Taxon
- Solanum lycopersicum
Solanum lycopersicumt0 - Treatment
- amendmente5
- Outcome
- root length, root surface areae5
- Direction
- increasede5
- Value
- twofolde5
- Comparator
- untreated plantse5
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Verbatim
t0“Cherry Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.)”
e5“the amendment increased twofold root length, root surface area, and root, stem, and leaf biomasses in comparison with untreated plants”
Title
Melissa Simiele; Oriana Argentino; Silvia Baronti; et al. Agriculture 2022. doi:10.3390/agriculture12081135
Other claims from this paper (10)
- Intervention effect Biochar increased the Nav of the substrate by 17% at the beginning of the study.
- Intervention effect Biochar increased the Ctot of the substrate by 13% at the beginning of the study.
- Intervention effect Biochar-treated plants had a greater number of leaves than untreated plants at the vegetative and fruit stages.
- Intervention effect Biochar increased leaf area by 26% and 36% compared with untreated plants.
- Intervention effect The amendment increased root, stem and leaf biomasses twofold compared with untreated plants.
- Intervention effect Biochar increased flower and fruit numbers (six times and two times, respectively).
- Intervention effect Biochar increased titratable acidity by 75%.
- Intervention effect Biochar increased lycopene content by 28%.
- Intervention effect Biochar increased solid soluble content by 16%.
- Intervention effect Fruit morphology remained unchanged under biochar amendment.