Claim · model-written summary
At the third year the 2x treatment produced larger trees than control.
- Taxon
- peach
Prunus persicat0 - Treatment
- 2x treatmente0
- Outcome
- treese0
- Direction
- largere0
- Qualifier
- third yeare0
- Comparator
- controle0
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageInteractorInteractor roleSecond interactorSecond interactor roleSettingValue
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“the 2x treatment had larger trees compared to the control by the third year”
t0“peach”
Title
Brian T. Lawrence; Juan Carlos Melgar Frontiers in Plant Science 2023. doi:10.3389/fpls.2023.1172038
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- Intervention effect The 2x compost rate improved growing-season soil moisture.
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- Recommendation Authors propose the 2x food waste compost rate as a synthetic fertilizer replacement that may increase tree growth.