Claim · model-written summary
Far-red light increased stem length in eggplant, irrespective of PPFD and the percentage of blue light.
- Taxon
- Solanum melongena
Solanum melongenat1 - Treatment
- far-rede2
- Outcome
- Stem lengthe2
- Direction
- increasede2
- Qualifier
- irrespective of PPFD and the percentage of blue lighte2
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Verbatim
t1“Eggplant (Solanum melongena L.)”
e2“Stem length increased with far-red, irrespective of PPFD and the percentage of blue light”
Title
J. Anja Dieleman; H. Marjolein Kruidhof; Kees Weerheim; et al. Frontiers in Plant Science 2021. doi:10.3389/fpls.2020.610046
Other claims from this paper (9)
- Intervention effect Additional far-red light increased plant biomass in the vegetative phase of eggplant.
- Intervention effect Additional far-red light gave higher total shoot biomass in the generative phase of eggplant.
- Intervention effect Additional far-red light gave higher fruit fresh weights in the generative phase of eggplant.
- Association Replacing PPFD partly with far-red gave lower generative-phase total shoot biomass and fruit fresh weights than additional far-red light.
- Intervention effect Far-red light increased biomass partitioning into the fruits of eggplant at the expense of the leaves.
- Association Light treatments did not change population growth of the predatory mite Amblyseius swirskii on eggplant.
- Association Light treatment did not change the vertical distribution of the predatory mite Amblyseius swirskii on eggplant plants.
- Intervention effect Additional far-red light reduced powdery mildew infection rate on eggplant.
- Intervention effect Additional far-red light increased botrytis infection on eggplant.