Claim · model-written summary
Raising K from 48 to 72 kg K2O/fed increased sucrose content, sugar recovery and recoverable sugar yield.
- Taxon
- sugar beet
Beta vulgaris subsp. vulgarise0 - Treatment
- increasing theK level from 48 to 72 kg K2O fed.-1e1
- Outcome
- sucrose content, sugar recovery, recoverable sugar yielde0
- Direction
- increasede1
- Qualifier
- in both seasonse1
- Comparator
- 48e1
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Verbatim
e0“All plant characteristics and quality traits of sugar beet i.e., top and root fresh and dry weights, sucrose content, sugar recovery, recoverable sugar yield,as well as Fe, Mn and Zn contents”
e1“were significantly increased by increasing theK level from 48 to 72 kg K2O fed.-1 in both seasons”
Title
Kamal Attia; A Mohamed; El-Desoky; et al. Assiut Journal of Agricultural Sciences/Assuit Journal of Agricultural Sciences 2016. doi:10.21608/ajas.2016.515
Other claims from this paper (13)
- Intervention effect Raising K from 48 to 72 kg K2O/fed increased top and root fresh and dry weights.
- Intervention effect Raising K from 48 to 72 kg K2O/fed increased Fe, Mn and Zn contents.
- Association Recoverable sugar percentage increased as K level increased.
- Association Potassium fertilization at 72 kg K2O/fed significantly increased top yield and recoverable sugar yield.
- Intervention effect Foliar zinc application decreased impurities in sugar beet juice.
- Intervention effect Foliar zinc application increased sugar loss to molasses.
- Intervention effect Foliar zinc application increased sucrose percentage.
- Intervention effect Foliar zinc application had no significant effect on recoverable sugar percentage.
- Intervention effect Increasing foliar zinc up to 150 mg/l significantly increased sugar beet yields in most cases.
- Association The potassium by zinc interaction had a significant effect on sodium content in beet roots in both seasons.
- Association The potassium by zinc interaction had a significant effect on K content in beet roots and sugar losses to molasses in the first season.
- Association The potassium by zinc interaction had a significant effect on top yield in the second season.
- Association Increasing potassium level increased sucrose percentage.