Claim · model-written summary
Magnesium increased average fruit weight by 1.14× on Swingle rootstock.
- Material
- Swinglee0
- Treatment
- Mg nutritione0
- Outcome
- average fruit weighte0
- Direction
- moree0
- Value
- 1.14×e0
- Comparator
- control treese0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“A magnitude of 1.14× more average fruit weight than control trees was noted for trees budded on Swingle rootstock in response to Mg nutrition”
t0“citrus trees”
Title
Split application of nutrients improve growth and yield of Huanglongbing‐affected citrus trees
Alisheikh A. Atta; Kelly T. Morgan; Kamal A. Mahmoud Soil Science Society of America Journal 2021. doi:10.1002/saj2.20310
Other claims from this paper (11)
- Observation At the highest nitrogen rate, leaf nitrogen, calcium and magnesium concentrations differed significantly between rootstocks.
- Observation Leaf nutrient concentration remained in the optimum range even at the lowest nitrogen rate.
- Observation Leaf magnesium concentration remained in the minimum range.
- Intervention effect Calcium treatment gave Cleopatra trees 1.41× greater canopy volume than controls.
- Intervention effect Magnesium treatment gave Cleopatra trees 1.23× greater canopy volume than controls.
- Intervention effect Calcium plus magnesium gave Cleopatra trees 1.23× greater canopy volume than controls.
- Intervention effect Calcium treatment gave Swingle trees 1.22× greater canopy volume than controls.
- Intervention effect Magnesium treatment gave Swingle trees 1.26× greater canopy volume than controls.
- Intervention effect Calcium plus magnesium gave Swingle trees 1.30× greater canopy volume than controls.
- Intervention effect Calcium treated Cleopatra trees yielded 59.7 kg tree –1 versus 36.9 kg tree –1 in controls.
- Intervention effect Calcium plus magnesium treated Cleopatra trees yielded 63.0 kg tree –1 versus 36.9 kg tree –1 in controls.