Claim · model-written summary
Higher potassium doses increased total soluble solids in Thilina.
- Taxon
- tomato
Solanum lycopersicumt0 - Material
- ‘Thilina’e0
- Treatment
- X2 or X3 doses of Ke0
- Outcome
- total soluble solid (TSS)e0
- Direction
- highere0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Verbatim
t0“tomato fruit (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.)”
e0“‘Thilina’ treated with X2 or X3 doses of K showed significantly higher (p ≤ 0.05) total soluble solid (TSS)”
Title
Darshani Weerahewa; Dilshan David Journal of the National Science Foundation of Sri Lanka 2015. doi:10.4038/jnsfsr.v43i3.7959
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