Abstract
SUMMARY Two varieties of okra were sown at approximately 14-day intervals from 1 April to 1 June for 2 years during the main rainy season in Nigeria. Low soil temperature and moisture, which resulted from a combined effect of high solar radiation, high atmospheric temperature and low rainfall, led to poor seedling emergence at the early sowing dates. The growth of the fewer plants of the early sowing dates were more vigorous than those of later sowing dates and they attained 50% flowering earlier and had a longer harvest duration. This resulted in increases in number of pods per plant, pod length, pod diameter, pod volume, pod weight and pod yield per ha, indicating compensatory growth by the fewer plants in the early plantings. The relatively lower values obtained for these variables with the late sowing dates were also attributed to possible poor soil aeration arising from the increased rainfall during their growth period. Sowing dates did not generally affect the percentage moisture, oil and protein in the pods. The effects of varieties on the variables measured were more uniform than those of sowing dates and mostly not significant.
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Claims 8
Claim · model-written summary
Early sowing dates of okra led to poor seedling emergence under low soil temperature and moisture.
- Taxon
- okra
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Abelmoschus esculentust0 - Treatment
- early sowing datese1
- Outcome
- seedling emergencee1
- Direction
- poore1
- Qualifier
- Low soil temperature and moisturee1
- Setting
- southern Nigeriat0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
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Verbatim
t0“okra (Abelmoschus esculentus (L.) Moench.) in southern Nigeria”
e1“Low soil temperature and moisture, which resulted from a combined effect of high solar radiation, high atmospheric temperature and low rainfall, led to poor seedling emergence at the early sowing dates”
Claim · model-written summary
Okra plants from early sowing dates were more vigorous in growth than those from later sowing dates.
- Taxon
- okraAbelmoschus esculentust0
- Treatment
- early sowing datese2
- Outcome
- growthe2
- Direction
- more vigorouse2
- Comparator
- later sowing datese2
- Setting
- southern Nigeriat0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“okra (Abelmoschus esculentus (L.) Moench.) in southern Nigeria”
e2“The growth of the fewer plants of the early sowing dates were more vigorous than those of later sowing dates and they attained 50% flowering earlier and had a longer harvest duration”
Claim · model-written summary
Okra from early sowing dates attained 50% flowering earlier than those from later sowing dates.
- Taxon
- okraAbelmoschus esculentust0
- Treatment
- early sowing datese2
- Outcome
- 50% floweringe2
- Direction
- earliere2
- Comparator
- later sowing datese2
- Setting
- southern Nigeriat0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“okra (Abelmoschus esculentus (L.) Moench.) in southern Nigeria”
e2“The growth of the fewer plants of the early sowing dates were more vigorous than those of later sowing dates and they attained 50% flowering earlier and had a longer harvest duration”
Claim · model-written summary
Okra from early sowing dates had a longer harvest duration than those from later sowing dates.
- Taxon
- okraAbelmoschus esculentust0
- Treatment
- early sowing datese2
- Outcome
- harvest duratione2
- Direction
- longere2
- Comparator
- later sowing datese2
- Setting
- southern Nigeriat0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“okra (Abelmoschus esculentus (L.) Moench.) in southern Nigeria”
e2“The growth of the fewer plants of the early sowing dates were more vigorous than those of later sowing dates and they attained 50% flowering earlier and had a longer harvest duration”
Claim · model-written summary
Early plantings of okra increased the number of pods per plant, pod length and pod diameter compared with late sowing dates.
- Taxon
- okraAbelmoschus esculentust0
- Treatment
- early plantingse3
- Outcome
- number of pods per plante3
- Direction
- increasese3
- Qualifier
- pod length, pod diametere3
- Comparator
- late sowing datese4
- Setting
- southern Nigeriat0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“okra (Abelmoschus esculentus (L.) Moench.) in southern Nigeria”
e3“This resulted in increases in number of pods per plant, pod length, pod diameter, pod volume, pod weight and pod yield per ha, indicating compensatory growth by the fewer plants in the early plantings”
e4“The relatively lower values obtained for these variables with the late sowing dates”
Claim · model-written summary
Early plantings of okra increased pod volume, pod weight and pod yield per ha compared with late sowing dates.
- Taxon
- okraAbelmoschus esculentust0
- Treatment
- early plantingse3
- Outcome
- pod volume, pod weight and pod yield per hae3
- Direction
- increasese3
- Comparator
- late sowing datese4
- Setting
- southern Nigeriat0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“okra (Abelmoschus esculentus (L.) Moench.) in southern Nigeria”
e3“This resulted in increases in number of pods per plant, pod length, pod diameter, pod volume, pod weight and pod yield per ha, indicating compensatory growth by the fewer plants in the early plantings”
e4“The relatively lower values obtained for these variables with the late sowing dates”
Claim · model-written summary
Sowing dates did not generally affect the percentage moisture, oil and protein in okra pods.
- Taxon
- okraAbelmoschus esculentust0
- Organ / stage
- podse5
- Treatment
- Sowing datese5
- Outcome
- percentage moisture, oil and proteine5
- Direction
- no_changeinferrede5
- Setting
- southern Nigeriat0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“okra (Abelmoschus esculentus (L.) Moench.) in southern Nigeria”
e5“Sowing dates did not generally affect the percentage moisture, oil and protein in the pods”
Claim · model-written summary
Varieties of okra had mostly non-significant effects on the variables measured, more uniform than those of sowing dates.
- Taxon
- okraAbelmoschus esculentust0
- Treatment
- varietiese6
- Outcome
- variables measurede6
- Comparator
- sowing datese6
- Setting
- southern Nigeriat0
Not reportedDirection
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“okra (Abelmoschus esculentus (L.) Moench.) in southern Nigeria”
e6“The effects of varieties on the variables measured were more uniform than those of sowing dates and mostly not significant”
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