Claim · model-written summary
Vermicompost-grown lettuce had wider leaves during the first four weeks.
- Taxon
- lettuce
Lactuca sativae0 - Treatment
- vermicomposte0
- Outcome
- leavese0
- Direction
- widere0
- Qualifier
- four (4) weekse0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The leaves of lettuce grown with vermicompost were longer and wider during the four (4) weeks”
Title
Sitty Aynah Mala American Journal of Agricultural Science Engineering and Technology 2022. doi:10.54536/ajaset.v6i2.562
Other claims from this paper (9)
- Intervention effect At 14 days after sowing, vermicompost increased lettuce germination relative to control and chemical fertilizers.
- Observation Vermicompost-grown lettuce had longer leaves during the first four weeks.
- Observation Chemically fertilized lettuce outperformed organically grown lettuce from week five until reaping, with a critical difference only in week six.
- Intervention effect Chemical fertilizer produced heavier lettuce than organic fertilizer and control.
- Intervention effect Chemical fertilizer produced higher lettuce yield than organic fertilizer and control.
- Intervention effect Vermicompost produced higher vitamin C antioxidant content than chemical fertilizer.
- Intervention effect Fertilizer type did not significantly affect lettuce pest and disease damage.
- Observation Disease occurrence and pest infestation were low under all fertilizer treatments.
- Recommendation The authors recommend vermicompost for organic lettuce production.