Claim · model-written summary
NPKNF improved off-year flowering and fruiting parameters.
- Taxon
- olive
Olea europaeae0 - Treatment
- NPKNF treatmentse0
- Outcome
- flowering, fruiting parameterse0
- Direction
- improvemente0
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Verbatim
e0“an improvement in olive flowering, fruiting parameters, and yield during the “off-year” was observed, along with a reduction in the severity of alternate bearing in response to NPKNF treatments.”
Title
NPK nano-fertilizers enhance growth, oil quality, and yield regularity in Picual olive trees
Ibrahim Hmmam; Hassan Mahmoud Korkar; Islam Ahmed; et al. Scientific Reports 2025. doi:10.1038/s41598-025-17267-9
Other claims from this paper (14)
- Intervention effect Increasing NPKNF enhanced vegetative growth in the on-year.
- Intervention effect Increasing NPKNF improved fruit traits in the on-year.
- Intervention effect Increasing NPKNF improved yield in the on-year.
- Intervention effect Increasing NPKNF improved oil properties in the on-year.
- Intervention effect NPKNF-treated trees had larger fruits and greater pulp-to-pit ratio.
- Intervention effect NPKNF-treated fruits had higher oil content.
- Intervention effect Oil phenolics were lower at 2000 mg L −1 NPKNF than control, at 289.28 mg/kg.
- Intervention effect Oil phenolics were lower at 3000 mg L −1 NPKNF than control, at 298.59 mg/kg.
- Intervention effect Oil phenolics were lower at 4000 mg L −1 NPKNF than control, at 277.11 mg/kg.
- Observation All oil samples were extra virgin with moderate fruitiness.
- Intervention effect NPKNF improved off-year yield.
- Intervention effect NPKNF reduced alternate bearing severity.
- Intervention effect NPKNF 4000 increased new shoots per shoot to 5.09 versus 1.03 in control.
- Intervention effect Alternate bearing severity was 85.40 under NPKNF 4000 versus 92.66 in control.