Claim · model-written summary
Increasing fertilizer micronutrients stimulates watermelon yield.
- Taxon
- Watermelon
Citrullus lanatust0 - Treatment
- increasing the rate of fertilizer micronutrientse0
- Outcome
- watermelon yielde0
- Direction
- stimulatese0
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Verbatim
t0“Watermelon”
e0“It generally has been observed that increasing the rate of fertilizer micronutrients stimulates watermelon yield, and among varieties: Perla‐Negra, Tolerant and Panonia.”
Title
Watermelon genotype differences for total and active iron index, iron and other micronutrients
L. Vargas; M. Guzmán; L. Romero Journal of Plant Nutrition 1988. doi:10.1080/01904168809363841
Other claims from this paper (16)
- Observation Watermelon varieties differed in yield response to micronutrients.
- Observation Watermelon varieties differed in micronutrient absorption capacity.
- Observation Sugar‐Baby was classified as Fe, Mn and Cu‐inefficient.
- Observation Panonia was classified as Fe, Mn and Cu‐inefficient.
- Observation Cándida was classified as Zn‐inef ficient.
- Observation Carmit was classified as Zn‐inef ficient.
- Observation Fabiola was classified as Fe, Mn and Cu‐efficient.
- Observation Early‐Star was classified as Fe, Mn and Cu‐efficient.
- Observation Carmit was classified as Fe, Mn and Cu‐efficient.
- Observation Panonia was classified as Zn‐efficient.
- Observation Perla‐Negra was classified as Zn‐efficient.
- Observation Rocío was classified as Zn‐efficient.
- Intervention effect Fertilizer micronutrient additions increase risk of soluble salt injury in watermelon.
- Intervention effect Fertilizer micronutrient additions may cause Cu‐toxcity in Early‐Star, Fabiola, Carmit, Candida, and Tolerant.
- Intervention effect Fertilizer micronutrient additions may cause Cu‐deficiency in Sugar‐Baby.
- Intervention effect Fertilizer micronutrient additions may cause Zn‐deficiency in Carmit, Early‐Star and Tolerant.