Claim · model-written summary
Potassium rates did not affect tomato fruit vitamin C, soluble solids or lycopene contents.
- Taxon
- tomatoes
Solanum lycopersicumt0 - Treatment
- K ratese0
- Outcome
- Vitamin C, total soluble solids, lycopenee0
- Direction
- not affectede0
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageInteractorInteractor roleSecond interactorSecond interactor roleComparatorSettingValueQualifier
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Verbatim
e0“Vitamin C, total soluble solids, lycopene and beta-carotene contents in the fruits were not affected by K rates”
t0“tomatoes”
Title
Paulo Cezar Rezende Fontes; Regynaldo Arruda Sampaio; Fernando Luiz Finger Pesquisa Agropecuária Brasileira 2000. doi:10.1590/s0100-204x2000000100003
Other claims from this paper (9)
- Intervention effect Double extra large tomato fruit yield responded quadratically to potassium rate and peaked at 116 kg ha-1.
- Intervention effect Extra large tomato fruit yield responded quadratically to potassium rate and peaked at 190 kg ha-1.
- Intervention effect Large tomato fruit yield responded quadratically to potassium rate and peaked at 233 kg ha-1.
- Intervention effect Potassium rates did not affect tomato fruit dry matter, phosphorus or sulfur contents.
- Intervention effect Potassium rates did not affect tomato fruit magnesium content.
- Intervention effect Tomato fruit nitrate and potassium contents rose significantly with potassium rates.
- Intervention effect Potassium rates did not affect tomato fruit beta-carotene content.
- Intervention effect Increasing potassium rate lowered tomato fruit pH.
- Intervention effect Increasing potassium rate raised tomato fruit total acids content.