Claim · model-written summary
The complex biostimulant increased potato tuber yield by an average of 33% in tuber weight across three varieties.
- Taxon
- potato
Solanum tuberosumt0 - Organ / stage
- tubere2
- Treatment
- complex biostimulante1
- Outcome
- tuber yielde2
- Direction
- increasede2
- Value
- 33%e2
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Verbatim
t0“enhances potato growth and commercial yields”
e1“In containers, complex biostimulant treatment enhanced photosynthetic ability, with elevated levels of chlorophyll, higher specific leaf areas and significantly larger leaf assimilation areas”
e2“Treatment also significantly increased tuber yield by an average of 33% in tuber weight across three potato varieties”
Title
A complex biostimulant based on plant flavonoids enhances potato growth and commercial yields
Richard Salvage; Tim Cannon; Philip Kingsmill; et al. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems 2024. doi:10.3389/fsufs.2024.1368423
Other claims from this paper (11)
- Intervention effect The complex biostimulant shifted tuber production toward larger sized tubers.
- Intervention effect The complex biostimulant enhanced photosynthetic ability of potato plants grown in containers.
- Intervention effect The complex biostimulant elevated chlorophyll levels in potato plants grown in containers.
- Intervention effect The complex biostimulant increased specific leaf area of potato plants grown in containers.
- Intervention effect The complex biostimulant significantly increased leaf assimilation area of potato plants grown in containers.
- Intervention effect The flavonoid biostimulant increased total yield of potato by an average of 5.2% across six commercial crops.
- Intervention effect The flavonoid biostimulant increased marketable yield of potato across six commercial crops.
- Intervention effect The flavonoid biostimulant increased farm margins by UK£700 per hectare across six potato crops.
- Intervention effect The biostimulant increased yield of chitted and unchitted seed potatoes alike.
- Intervention effect The biostimulant had no significant effect on tuber specific gravity, dry matter percentage and starch content.
- Intervention effect At one location, quality characteristics were higher in control plants than in biostimulant-treated plants.