Claim · model-written summary
Moderate and high Cd in the root environment decreased tomato fruit yield and fruit number.
- Taxon
- tomato
Solanum lycopersicume0 - Material
- Ikrame0
- Treatment
- concentration of Cd in root environmente2
- Outcome
- fruit yield and fruit numbere2
- Direction
- decreasede2
- Qualifier
- moderate (25 µ m ) and high (50 µ m )e2
- Setting
- greenhousee1
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Verbatim
e0“tomato ( Solanum lycopersicum L. cv. Ikram)”
e1“A greenhouse experiment was conducted”
e2“Both moderate (25 µ m ) and high (50 µ m ) concentration of Cd in root environment considerably decreased the fruit yield and fruit number”
Title
Grafting Affects Growth, Yield, Nutrient Uptake, and Partitioning Under Cadmium Stress in Tomato
Pradeep Kumar; Menahem Edelstein; Mariateresa Cardarelli; et al. HortScience 2015. doi:10.21273/hortsci.50.11.1654
Other claims from this paper (10)
- Intervention effect Mean tomato fruit weight decreased similarly at both Cd supply levels.
- Intervention effect Tomato rootstock grafting increased fruit yield, shoot and root biomass and leaf area compared with nongrafted or self-grafted plants, especially on Maxifort.
- Association Tomato rootstock-grafted plants had higher chlorophyll fluorescence and leaf photosynthetic pigment concentration.
- Mechanism Higher plant performance of tomato rootstock-grafted plants is related to better nutrient translocation and availability.
- Association Leaf Ca, Mg and Fe were higher in tomato rootstock-grafted plants.
- Association Leaf Mn and Cu were higher in tomato rootstock-grafted plants.
- Intervention effect Cd content in leaves and fruits was lower in Maxifort-grafted tomato plants.
- Intervention effect Black Beauty followed by Maxifort-grafted plants gave better fruit quality (peel color, toxicity symptoms and Cd concentration) than other grafting combinations.
- Intervention effect Grafting onto Black Beauty rootstock gave the lowest fruit yield and plant growth, due to lower nutrient uptake and translocation.
- Mechanism The Black Beauty rootstock and Ikram scion show some incompatibility, which explains the lower plant growth.