Claim · model-written summary
Nutrient use efficiency for fruit production increased initially with shade density.
- Taxon
- Tomato
Solanum lycopersicumt0 - Treatment
- shade densitye0
- Outcome
- nutrients for fruit productione0
- Direction
- increasede0
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Verbatim
e0“The use efficiencies of radiation, water, and nutrients for fruit production increased with shade density immediately after shade were applied.”
t0“Greenhouse Tomato”
Title
Density and Duration of Shade Affect Water and Nutrient Use in Greenhouse Tomato
Martin P.N. Gent Journal of the American Society for Horticultural Science 2008. doi:10.21273/jashs.133.4.619
Other claims from this paper (12)
- Intervention effect Water uptake declined linearly with shade density.
- Intervention effect Nitrogen uptake declined linearly with shade density.
- Intervention effect Potassium uptake declined linearly with shade density.
- Intervention effect At 0.5 shade density water uptake was 25% less in 2004.
- Intervention effect At 0.5 shade density water uptake was 20% less in 2005.
- Intervention effect Nitrogen uptake was about 25% less at 0.5 shade.
- Intervention effect Potassium uptake was about 25% less at 0.5 shade.
- Intervention effect Shade did not affect fruit production rate within three weeks.
- Intervention effect After six weeks fruit production was 30% less at 0.5 shade.
- Intervention effect Radiation use efficiency for fruit production increased initially with shade density.
- Intervention effect Water use efficiency for fruit production increased initially with shade density.
- Observation Initial resource use efficiency effects dissipated three to six weeks after shade application.