Intervention effectmodel-written summary

Wider transplant spacing increased marketable tomato yield from 74 to 86 tons per hectare.

A claim from INFLUENCE OF PLANT POPULATION ON TRANSPLANTED PROCESSING TOMATOES IN THE LOWER SACRAMENTO VALLEY · 2003

Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultpositivemeasured

Claim · model-written summary

Wider transplant spacing increased marketable tomato yield from 74 to 86 tons per hectare.

Taxon
PROCESSING TOMATOESe1
Treatment
wider spacinge0
Outcome
Marketable yielde0
Direction
increasede0
Value
74 to 86 tons per hectaree0
Comparator
lower plant populationse0

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“processing tomato transplant populations of in-row spacing of 20, 30, 40, 50, 60 and 70 cm indicated marketable yields increased with lower plant populations. Marketable yield increased from 74 to 86 tons per hectare, correlated to a positive linear response to wider spacing”

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“INFLUENCE OF PLANT POPULATION ON TRANSPLANTED PROCESSING TOMATOES”

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Title

INFLUENCE OF PLANT POPULATION ON TRANSPLANTED PROCESSING TOMATOES IN THE LOWER SACRAMENTO VALLEY

G. Miyao Acta Horticulturae 2003. doi:10.17660/actahortic.2003.613.12

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density · quality: postharvest · Solanum lycopersicum (tomato)Positive and negative results

14 papers: 11 positive, 3 negative or no effect

10 papers in the same direction as this claim · 3 in the opposite direction

  1. negative
    Higher density reduced fruit number, marketable yield and total yield per tomato plant.

    Response of Field-Grown Indeterminate Tomato to Plant Density and Stem Pruning on Yield · 2018

    Opposite direction

  2. no effect
    Plant density did not affect tomato fruit color.

    Influence of Plant Density on Yield and Quality in Tomatoes Under Greenhouse Conditions in the Northwest on Mexico · 2004

    Opposite direction

  3. no effect
    Seeding rates above 63 seeds/m did not significantly increase marketable transplant number.

    Effect of Seeding Rate, Pattern, Row Position, and Clipping on Size Uniformity of Field-grown Tomato Transplants1 · 1979

    Opposite direction

  4. positive
    Fifty centimeter spacing produced higher marketable tomato yield of 82.39 t/ha.

    EFFECT OF SPACING AND STEM PRUNING ON THE GROWTH AND YIELD OF TOMATO · 2007 · compared with closer spacing

    Same direction

  5. positive
    Density and fertilizer combinations positively influenced height, fruit yield and marketable yield.

    Effects of planting density and NPK fertilizer application on yield and yield components of tomato (Lycospersicon esculentum Mill) in forest location. · 2009

    Same direction

  6. positive
    Plant spacing significantly affected total and marketable fruit yields and % marketable fruit yield.

    Response of tomato cultivars differing in growth habit to nitrogen and phosphorus fertilizers and spacing on vertisol in Ethiopia · 2008

    Same direction

  7. positive
    The 20 cm interrow spacing increased marketable fruit yield by 35.96% compared with the 30 cm spacing used by farmers.

    Effect of Plant Spacing on Yield and Yield Components of Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) in Shewarobit, Central Ethiopia · 2020 · compared with 30 cm spacing

    Same direction

  8. positive
    Marketable yield increased with plant density in spring/summer, peaking at 25 plants/m2.

    Yield of determinate tomato cultivars grown in a closed hydroponic system as affected by plant spacing · 2017

    Same direction

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