Claim · model-written summary
High airflow rate (1.3 m s−1) had no significant effect on spinach growth performance or mineral concentrations.
- Taxon
- spinach
Spinacia oleraceae3 - Treatment
- high airflow rate (1.3 m s−1)e1
- Outcome
- growth performance and mineral concentrationse3
- Direction
- no significant effectse3
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Verbatim
e1“a high airflow rate (1.3 m s−1) significantly increased plant water use and solution electrical conductivity (P < 0.01)”
e3“while having no significant effects on spinach growth performance and mineral concentrations”
Title
Rhuanito Soranz Ferrarezi; Kuan Qin; Camille Hazard; et al. Scientia Horticulturae 2024. doi:10.1016/j.scienta.2024.112948
Other claims from this paper (10)
- Intervention effect High airflow rate (1.3 m s−1) significantly increased plant water use and solution electrical conductivity in an indoor vertical farm (P < 0.01).
- Intervention effect High airflow rate (1.3 m s−1) negatively affected lettuce P, K and Mg concentrations (P < 0.05).
- Intervention effect Lettuce and spinach grown with the Resh recipe had higher leaf area than with the Mattson recipe.
- Intervention effect Lettuce and spinach grown with the Resh recipe had higher yield than with the Mattson recipe.
- Intervention effect Lettuce and spinach grown with the Resh recipe had higher shoot and root biomass than with the Mattson recipe.
- Intervention effect High Ca concentrations in the solution further accelerated the growth improvements of the Resh recipe.
- Intervention effect High Ca concentrations in the solution increased tissue Ca concentrations (P < 0.01).
- Observation No tipburn symptoms were found in lettuce and spinach.
- Intervention effect Reduced plant transpiration was presented with the slow and fast airflow rates and solution Ca concentrations tested.
- Recommendation Slow airflow rates (0.4–0.7 m s−1) and a Resh recipe with high Ca concentration can be used for lettuce and spinach production in vertical farms to increase yield.