Claim · model-written summary
Silicon-enriched nutrient solution decreased manganese and zinc content of tomato leaves compared with control plants.
- Taxon
- tomato
Solanum lycopersicume6 - Organ / stage
- leavese6
- Treatment
- silicon-enriched nutrient solutione6
- Outcome
- manganese and zince6
- Direction
- lesse6
- Comparator
- control plantse6
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Verbatim
e6“The leaves of tomato fertilized with the silicon-enriched nutrient solution contained more silicon as well as less manganese and zinc compared to control plants”
Title
THE EFFECT OF SILICON APPLICATION AND TYPE OF MEDIUM ON YIELDING AND CHEMICAL COMPOSITION OF TOMATO
Zbigniew Jarosz DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) 2014
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- Intervention effect Silicon-enriched nutrient solution significantly increased total fruit yield of tomato compared with control treatments.
- Intervention effect Straw and rockwool growing media gave no significant difference in total and marketable yield or mean fruit weight of tomato.
- Intervention effect Tomato grown in sand had lower total fruit yield than tomato grown in rockwool.
- Intervention effect Tomato fruit grown in sand had more dry matter than fruit grown in rockwool culture, at 5.52%.
- Intervention effect Tomato fruit grown in sand had more total sugars than fruit grown in rockwool culture, at 2.58% FR.W.
- Intervention effect Tomato fruit grown in sand had more potassium than fruit grown in rockwool culture, at 4.19% DW.
- Intervention effect Tomato fruit grown in sand had the highest amount of silicon compared with rockwool culture.
- Intervention effect Silicon-enriched nutrient solution increased silicon content of tomato leaves compared with control plants.