Claim · model-written summary
Fertilizer applications increased soil levels of P and K in wild blueberry fields.
- Taxon
- wild blueberriese0
- Treatment
- Fertilizer applicationse2
- Outcome
- soil levels of P and Ke2
- Direction
- increasede2
- Setting
- Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotiae0
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Verbatim
e0“Two experiments were conducted to evaluate the response of wild blueberries to soil-applied fertilization over four cropping cycles in Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia from 1997 to 2004”
e2“Fertilizer applications increased soil levels of P and K, leaf tissue concentrations of N and P and stem lengths of plants”
Title
Comparison of consecutive and alternate fertilizer applications in wild blueberry production
L. J. Eaton; K. R. Sanderson; S. A. E. Fillmore Canadian Journal of Plant Science 2009. doi:10.4141/cjps08068
Other claims from this paper (8)
- Intervention effect Fertilizer applications increased leaf tissue concentrations of N and P in wild blueberry.
- Intervention effect Fertilizer applications increased stem lengths of wild blueberry plants.
- Intervention effect Consecutive fertilizer applications gave higher soil P levels than alternate applications in wild blueberry.
- Intervention effect Consecutive fertilizer applications gave higher leaf tissue concentrations of N, P and K than alternate applications in wild blueberry.
- Intervention effect Stem lengths, buds and blossoms per stem were higher when fertilizers were applied consecutively than alternately.
- Intervention effect Fruit yields of wild blueberry increased with fertilizer applications compared with the unfertilized control.
- Intervention effect Within fertilizer treatments, fruit yield of wild blueberry was not affected by consecutive or alternate cropping-cycle application.
- Recommendation The authors suggest that alternate fertilizer applications may reduce soil P accumulation and production costs without compromising yield.