Claim · model-written summary
Variable-rate fertilization did not significantly alter fruit quality.
- Taxon
- apple
Malus domesticat0 - Treatment
- variable ratet1
- Outcome
- fruit qualitye0
- Comparator
- uniform fertilizer applicationst1
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Verbatim
e0“fruit quality was not significantly affected”
t0“apple”
t1“compare variable rate and uniform fertilizer applications in apple (Malus domestica Borkh.)”
Title
Vasileios Liakos; Erick Smith; Spyros Fountas; et al. International Journal of Fruit Science 2020. doi:10.1080/15538362.2019.1702135
Other claims from this paper (7)
- Intervention effect Variable-rate treatments used 59.6% less fertilizer in 2011.
- Intervention effect Variable-rate treatments used 63.4% less fertilizer in 2012.
- Intervention effect Yield differed by less than 4% between variable-rate and uniform fertilization.
- Association Soil properties had no significant association with apple yield and fruit quality.
- Intervention effect Variable-rate fertilizer cost was 2.3% lower in 2011.
- Intervention effect Variable-rate fertilizer cost was 7.6% lower in 2012.
- Recommendation Yield-based fertilizer demand assessment may increase apple-orchard profitability.