Claim · model-written summary
In the pot trial, KCl fertilization decreased tuber starch content by approximately 2.2 to 2.4% compared with controls.
- Taxon
- Potato
Solanum tuberosumt0 - Treatment
- fertilized with KCle0
- Outcome
- starch contente0
- Direction
- decreasede0
- Value
- 2.2 to 2.4%e0
- Comparator
- controlse0
- Setting
- pot traile0
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Verbatim
e0“For all variants from the pot trail fertilized with KCl the starch content was decreased approximately with 2.2 to 2.4% in comparison to controls”
t0“Potato Varieties”
Title
Tuber Quality Parameters of Potato Varieties Depend on Potassium Fertilizer Rate and Source
Ivan Manolov; Nesho Neshev; Vesela Chalova Agriculture and Agricultural Science Procedia 2016. doi:10.1016/j.aaspro.2016.09.010
Other claims from this paper (10)
- Intervention effect In the pot experiment, tuber dry matter content was highest in the controls of Louisiana at 19.78%.
- Intervention effect In the pot experiment, tuber dry matter content was highest in the controls of Riviera at 17.16.
- Intervention effect In the pot experiment, tuber dry matter content was highest in the controls of Hussar at 17.26%.
- Intervention effect In the field, the highest tuber dry matter content (20.98%) was observed for variant K200 (K2SO4).
- Observation In the field study the highest tuber starch content, 15.24%, was observed in the control.
- Intervention effect Fertilization did not influence tuber reducing sugars content, which was around 0.40% regardless of trial conditions and cultivars.
- Intervention effect In the pot trial, KCl decreased tuber vitamin C content by 46% in Louisiana compared with controls.
- Intervention effect In the pot trial, KCl decreased tuber vitamin C content by 61% in Agria compared with controls.
- Intervention effect In the field, the high rate of K200 KCl reduced tuber vitamin C content by approximately 54% relative to K100 K2SO4.
- Intervention effect KCl had a positive influence on tuber crude protein content in all varieties in both trials.