Intervention effectmodel-written summary

Combined GA3 and boron produced the highest fruits per plant, 17.72.

A claim from Influence of Boron and Gibberellic Acid on Growth and Yield of Summer Tomato · 2024

Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultpositivemeasured

Claim · model-written summary

Combined GA3 and boron produced the highest fruits per plant, 17.72.

Treatment
50 ppm GA3 + 100 ppm Borone0
Outcome
fruit per plante0
Direction
higheste0
Value
17.72e0

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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Solanum lycopersicum
Solanum lycopersicum · TaxonKod B · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

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“Combined effect of GA3 and Boron at treatment T3 (50 ppm GA3 + 100 ppm Boron) gives the highest plant height (104.23), branch number (18.76), no. of leaves per plant (82.5), flower clusters per plant (14.05), flower per plant (52.1), fruit per plant (17.72)”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 1224–1481
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“summer tomato (BARI Hybrid Tomato 8)”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 364–400

Title

Influence of Boron and Gibberellic Acid on Growth and Yield of Summer Tomato

Babli Rani Deb; Dipta Majumder; Ram Abtar Mehta; et al. Journal of Agroforestry and Environment 2024. doi:10.55706/jae1726

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Gibberellic acid · yield · Solanum lycopersicum (tomato)Results differ

56 papers: 51 positive, 5 negative or no effect

50 papers in the same direction as this claim · 5 in the opposite direction

  1. negative
    GA reduced total fruit yield in 1988.

    Drought, Paclobutrazol, Abscisic Acid, and Gibberellic Acid as Alternatives to Daminozide in Tomato Transplant Production · 1992

    Opposite direction

  2. no effect
    GA3 did not increase seeds per fruit relative to controls.

    Gibberellic acid induced multilocular fruits in tomato and the role of locule number and seed number in fruit size · 1978 · compared with controls

    Opposite direction

  3. no effect
    GA3 treatment did not retard growth or cause flower bud abscission in tomato.

    Effects of Gibberellic acid and 2,4-Dichlorophenoxy Acetic Acid Spray on Vegetative Growth, Fruit Anatomy and Seed Setting of Tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.) · 2013

    Opposite direction

  4. no effect
    GA did not affect fruit size.

    Genotypic and Chemical Influences on Fruit Growth of Tomato · 1990

    Opposite direction

  5. negative
    GA biosynthesis inhibition suppressed Sldad1 fruit set.

    Spatiotemporal localization of jasmonate in the regulation of fruit set in tomato · 2025

    Opposite direction

  6. positive
    GA(3) application reversed the inhibitor effects on tomato fruit growth and set.

    Gibberellin Regulation of Fruit Set and Growth in Tomato · 2007

    Same direction

  7. positive
    GA application to a developing inflorescence or stem tip completed flower bud development and fruit set.

    FLOWER DEVELOPMENT IN NORMAL TOMATO AND A GIBBERELLIN‐DEFICIENT (ga‐2) MUTANT · 1988

    Same direction

  8. positive
    GA improved tomato yield.

    Amendment of hydroponic nutrient solution with humic acid and glutamic acid in tomato (Lycopersicon esculentumMill.) culture · 2013

    Same direction

47 papers more in this group

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boron atom · yield · Solanum lycopersicum (tomato)Positive and negative results

33 papers: 28 positive, 5 negative or no effect

27 papers in the same direction as this claim · 5 in the opposite direction

  1. no effect
    Calcium and boron applications did not change total fruit yield.

    Blossom‐end rot and fruit cracking of tomato grown in net‐covered greenhouses in Central Thailand can partly be corrected by calcium and boron sprays · 2009

    Opposite direction

  2. negative
    The highest B dose had harmful effects on tomato, consisting of yield reduction and foliar nutrient imbalance.

    The effects of boron-enriched water irrigation on soil microbial community are dependent on crop species · 2022

    Opposite direction

  3. no effect
    Boron treatment did not affect cuticle membrane deposition or fruit size in either cultivar.

    Boron Defi ciency Enhances Microcracking in Tomato Fruit during Summer · 2022

    Opposite direction

  4. negative
    Maximum boron dose raised plant boron uptake and soil boron availability but decreased yield.

    Effect of boron and vermicompost on yield and quality of tomato (Lycopersican esculentumcv. Pusa ruby) in acid soils · 2015

    Opposite direction

  5. negative
    High boron irrigation reduced tomato total yield by 45% relative to the control.

    Boron Toxicity Alters Yield, Mineral Nutrition and Metabolism in Tomato Plants: Limited Mitigation by a Laminaria digitata-Derived Biostimulant · 2026 · compared with 0.25 mg L−1 of boron

    Opposite direction

  6. positive
    Omission of boron most compromised cherry tomato dry matter production.

    Growth, nutrient concentration, nutrient accumulation and visual symptoms of nutrient deficiencies in cherry tomato plants · 2019

    Same directionAbout lacking this nutrient, so it counts the other way round

  7. positive
    Combined zinc and boron at 100 ppm gave the maximum number of flowers, 75.21.

    Improvement of growth, yield and quality of tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) cv. Azad T-6 with foliar application of zinc and boron · 2015

    Same direction

  8. positive
    0.25% boron improved flowering and production.

    Comparative Effects of Calcium, Boron, and Zinc Inhibiting Physiological Disorders, Improving Yield and Quality of Solanum lycopersicum · 2024

    Same direction

24 papers more in this group

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