Claim · model-written summary
The authors suggest combined fertilizer use could halve mineral fertilizer for bulb crops.
- Taxon
- Allium cepa L.
Allium cepat0 - Outcome
- reduce the quantity and cost of mineral‐fertilizers applicatione0
- Value
- 50%e0
- Qualifier
- while also sustaining soil biological activitye0
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Verbatim
e0“The study suggests that this combined application can reduce the quantity and cost of mineral‐fertilizers application for bulbous‐crop cultivation by 50%, while also sustaining soil biological activity of tropical and subtropical soils.”
t0“Allium cepa L.”
Title
Pankaj Kumar Srivastava; Manjul Gupta; Rakesh Kumar Upadhyay; et al. Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science 2011. doi:10.1002/jpln.201000390
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- Intervention effect Combined vermicompost and NPK increased onion vegetative and bulb growth.
- Intervention effect Combined vermicompost and NPK increased onion leaf biochemical characteristics.
- Intervention effect Mixed treatment increased bulb size by 54% versus control.
- Intervention effect Mixed treatment increased bulbs per bed by 52% versus control.
- Intervention effect Mixed treatment increased fresh bulb weight by 198% versus control.
- Intervention effect Mix treatment raised soil organic C by 60% versus fertilizer alone.
- Intervention effect Mix treatment raised soil microbial biomass C by 127%.
- Intervention effect Mix treatment raised soil sulfate by 126%.
- Intervention effect Mix treatment raised soil β-glucosidase by 145%.
- Intervention effect Mix treatment raised soil alkaline phosphatase by 91%.
- Intervention effect Mix treatment raised soil dehydrogenase by 71%.