Claim · model-written summary
Sprayed strawberries showed no difference in number of runners and inflorescences compared with control plants.
- Taxon
- strawberries
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Fragaria ×ananassae4 - Treatment
- Sprayede4
- Outcome
- number of runners, and inflorescencese5
- Direction
- no differencee5
- Comparator
- control plantse4
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Verbatim
e4“Sprayed strawberries had a 38% higher berry yield compared with control plants in 2008”
e5“no difference in leaf number and area, number of runners, and inflorescences were detected”
Title
Plant Growth Is Stimulated by Tea-seed Extract: A New Natural Growth Regulator?
Marianne Andresen; Nina Cedergreen HortScience 2010. doi:10.21273/hortsci.45.12.1848
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- Intervention effect Tea Seed Powder significantly enhanced growth of sterile Lemna by about 20% above control.
- Intervention effect Soil-applied TSP significantly increased biomass of pot-grown beet by 27% to 41% above control.
- Intervention effect Soil-applied TSP significantly increased biomass of pot-grown oat by 27% to 41% above control.
- Intervention effect Soil-applied TSP significantly increased biomass of pot-grown barley by 27% to 41% above control.
- Intervention effect Spray-applied TSP increased growth of pot-grown beet, mustard, oat and barley by 14% to 26%.
- Intervention effect Sprayed strawberries had a 38% higher berry yield than control plants in 2008.
- Intervention effect Sprayed strawberries showed no difference in leaf number and leaf area compared with control plants.
- Intervention effect In 2009 sprayed strawberries showed no significant observable differences from controls.
- Intervention effect Soil-treated strawberry plants showed a decrease in leaf number in 2008.
- Intervention effect Soil-treated strawberry plants showed a decrease in yield in 2009.
- Recommendation The authors suggest the growth-enhancing effect of TSP could be used commercially to improve crop yield.
- Mechanism The growth increase is a plant physiological response to TSP rather than an indirect effect on pests, diseases or nutrient uptake.