Claim · model-written summary
Calcium chloride at foliar or green mature stage increased fruit number relative to most treatments.
- Taxon
- tomato
Solanum lycopersicumt0 - Treatment
- CaCl2 treated plants sprayed at either F or GMe0
- Outcome
- fruit numberse0
- Direction
- highere0
- Comparator
- most of the treatmentse0
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Verbatim
e0“CaCl2 treated plants sprayed at either F or GM had higher fruit numbers than most of the treatments”
t0“Tomato Growth”
Title
Hasnaa M. Abdelaleem; Mohamed H.Z. EL-Dkeshy; Reham M. Abdalla Assiut Journal of Agricultural Sciences/Assuit Journal of Agricultural Sciences 2025. doi:10.21608/ajas.2025.330403.1417
Other claims from this paper (9)
- Intervention effect Foliar calcium chloride produced the tallest plants and widest stems.
- Intervention effect Foliar calcium chloride yielded the most fruit, significantly.
- Intervention effect Foliar calcium chloride reduced fruit weight loss relative to control on most days.
- Intervention effect First-season foliar CaCl2 improved stored fruit visual appearance and hardness versus control.
- Intervention effect First-season foliar chitosan improved stored fruit visual appearance and hardness versus control.
- Intervention effect First-season foliar mix treatments improved stored fruit visual appearance and hardness versus control.
- Intervention effect Foliar chitosan reduced microbial fungi relative to control.
- Intervention effect All green mature spraying treatments increased flavonoids and total phenolics over control.
- Intervention effect All foliar spray treatments reduced lycopene relative to control.