Abstract
Trickle feeding and irrigation of spring and autumn crop tomatoes grown in peat gave a lower soil pH and higher soil specific conductivity (SC) and K content than did feeding by hose or low-level sprayline methods. The use of hard water for making up feed and for irrigating gave a higher soil pH and SC than did moderately soft water. The trickle system gave the tallest plants in the autumn crop. In the spring crop plants were taller initially with the trickle system but the sprayline system gave the tallest plants later on. Hard water decreased height in both crops. Plants fed and irrigated with hard water yielded more marketable fruit in the spring crop than those treated with moderately soft water. The trickle system gave highest yields in both crops, and reduced the incidence of blossom-end rot in the spring crop. Values for fruit acidity, percentage soluble solids and K were lower in trickle-fed tomatoes, but water type had little effect on fruit composition.
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Claims 16
Claim · model-written summary
Trickle feeding lowered soil pH compared with hose or sprayline feeding.
- Taxon
- tomatoes
Solanum lycopersicume0 - Treatment
- Trickle feeding and irrigatione0
- Outcome
- soil pHe0
- Direction
- lowere0
- Comparator
- feeding by hose or low-level sprayline methodse0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Trickle feeding and irrigation of spring and autumn crop tomatoes grown in peat gave a lower soil pH and higher soil specific conductivity (SC) and K content than did feeding by hose or low-level sprayline methods.”
Claim · model-written summary
Trickle feeding increased soil specific conductivity compared with hose or sprayline.
- Taxon
- tomatoesSolanum lycopersicume0
- Treatment
- Trickle feeding and irrigatione0
- Outcome
- soil specific conductivity (SC)e0
- Direction
- highere0
- Comparator
- feeding by hose or low-level sprayline methodse0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Trickle feeding and irrigation of spring and autumn crop tomatoes grown in peat gave a lower soil pH and higher soil specific conductivity (SC) and K content than did feeding by hose or low-level sprayline methods.”
Claim · model-written summary
Trickle feeding increased soil K content compared with hose or sprayline.
- Taxon
- tomatoesSolanum lycopersicume0
- Treatment
- Trickle feeding and irrigatione0
- Outcome
- K contente0
- Direction
- highere0
- Comparator
- feeding by hose or low-level sprayline methodse0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Trickle feeding and irrigation of spring and autumn crop tomatoes grown in peat gave a lower soil pH and higher soil specific conductivity (SC) and K content than did feeding by hose or low-level sprayline methods.”
Claim · model-written summary
Hard water increased soil pH compared with moderately soft water.
- Taxon
- TOMATOSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Treatment
- hard watere0
- Outcome
- soil pHe0
- Direction
- highere0
- Comparator
- moderately soft watere0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The use of hard water for making up feed and for irrigating gave a higher soil pH and SC than did moderately soft water.”
t0“TOMATO”
Claim · model-written summary
Hard water increased soil SC compared with moderately soft water.
- Taxon
- TOMATOSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Treatment
- hard watere0
- Outcome
- SCe0
- Direction
- highere0
- Comparator
- moderately soft watere0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The use of hard water for making up feed and for irrigating gave a higher soil pH and SC than did moderately soft water.”
t0“TOMATO”
Claim · model-written summary
Trickle feeding produced the tallest autumn crop plants.
- Taxon
- TOMATOSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Treatment
- trickle systeme0
- Outcome
- tallest plantse0
- Direction
- talleste0
- Qualifier
- autumn crope0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The trickle system gave the tallest plants in the autumn crop.”
t0“TOMATO”
Claim · model-written summary
Trickle feeding initially produced taller spring crop plants.
- Taxon
- TOMATOSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Treatment
- trickle systeme0
- Outcome
- plantse0
- Direction
- tallere0
- Qualifier
- spring crope0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“In the spring crop plants were taller initially with the trickle system”
t0“TOMATO”
Claim · model-written summary
Sprayline feeding produced the tallest spring crop plants later.
- Taxon
- TOMATOSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Treatment
- sprayline systeme0
- Outcome
- tallest plantse0
- Direction
- talleste0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“the sprayline system gave the tallest plants later on”
t0“TOMATO”
Claim · model-written summary
Hard water decreased plant height in both crops.
- Taxon
- TOMATOSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Treatment
- Hard watere0
- Outcome
- heighte0
- Direction
- decreasede0
- Qualifier
- both cropse0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Hard water decreased height in both crops.”
t0“TOMATO”
Claim · model-written summary
Hard water increased marketable fruit yield in spring compared with moderately soft water.
- Taxon
- TOMATOSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Treatment
- hard watere0
- Outcome
- marketable fruite0
- Direction
- moree0
- Qualifier
- spring crope0
- Comparator
- moderately soft watere0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Plants fed and irrigated with hard water yielded more marketable fruit in the spring crop than those treated with moderately soft water.”
t0“TOMATO”
Claim · model-written summary
Trickle feeding produced the highest yields in both crops.
- Taxon
- TOMATOSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Treatment
- trickle systeme0
- Outcome
- yieldse0
- Direction
- higheste0
- Qualifier
- both cropse0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The trickle system gave highest yields in both crops”
t0“TOMATO”
Claim · model-written summary
Trickle feeding reduced blossom-end rot in the spring crop.
- Taxon
- TOMATOSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Treatment
- trickle systeme0
- Outcome
- incidence of blossom-end rote0
- Direction
- reducede0
- Qualifier
- spring crope0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The trickle system gave highest yields in both crops, and reduced the incidence of blossom-end rot in the spring crop”
t0“TOMATO”
Claim · model-written summary
Trickle feeding lowered fruit acidity.
- Taxon
- tomatoesSolanum lycopersicume0
- Treatment
- trickle-fede0
- Outcome
- fruit aciditye0
- Direction
- lowere0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Values for fruit acidity, percentage soluble solids and K were lower in trickle-fed tomatoes”
Claim · model-written summary
Trickle feeding lowered percentage soluble solids.
- Taxon
- tomatoesSolanum lycopersicume0
- Treatment
- trickle-fede0
- Outcome
- percentage soluble solidse0
- Direction
- lowere0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Values for fruit acidity, percentage soluble solids and K were lower in trickle-fed tomatoes”
Claim · model-written summary
Trickle feeding lowered fruit K.
- Taxon
- tomatoesSolanum lycopersicume0
- Treatment
- trickle-fede0
- Outcome
- Ke0
- Direction
- lowere0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Values for fruit acidity, percentage soluble solids and K were lower in trickle-fed tomatoes”
Claim · model-written summary
Water type had little effect on fruit composition.
- Taxon
- TOMATOSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Treatment
- water typee0
- Outcome
- fruit compositione0
- Direction
- little effecte0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“water type had little effect on fruit composition”
t0“TOMATO”