Abstract
Consumption of strawberries has been asserted to have many health promoting bioactive compounds including antioxidants. Growing fruits and vegetables hydroponically represent a possible opportunity towards sustainable crop production; it would be beneficial to examine the feasibility and the potential ability to replace soil systems for growing strawberries. Unlike leafy greens, the root structures, stalk, and fruit are more complex and require more physical support. In this study, hydroponic strawberries were higher in terms of fruit yield and plant survival rate. In soil-grown strawberries, the overall mass was significantly higher by 23%, but there was a larger variation of fruit size indicated by a large standard deviation. Startup costs for growing strawberries in hydroponic systems can be more than soil systems. Growing strawberries in hydroponic systems are feasible, at reasonable cost and more sustainable compared to traditionally soil grown systems. Future research should investigate various hydroponic growing methods and the feasibility of growing at the commercial level..
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Claims 5
Claim · model-written summary
hydroponic strawberries showed higher fruit yield.
- Taxon
- STRAWBERRIESt0
- Treatment
- hydroponic strawberriese0
- Outcome
- fruit yielde0
- Direction
- highere0
- Setting
- GREENHOUSEt0
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e0“hydroponic strawberries were higher in terms of fruit yield and plant survival rate”
t0“GROWING STRAWBERRIES IN A GREENHOUSE”
Claim · model-written summary
hydroponic strawberries showed higher plant survival rate.
- Taxon
- STRAWBERRIESt0
- Treatment
- hydroponic strawberriese0
- Outcome
- plant survival ratee0
- Direction
- highere0
- Setting
- GREENHOUSEt0
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Verbatim
e0“hydroponic strawberries were higher in terms of fruit yield and plant survival rate”
t0“GROWING STRAWBERRIES IN A GREENHOUSE”
Claim · model-written summary
soil-grown strawberries showed higher overall mass by 23%.
- Taxon
- STRAWBERRIESt0
- Treatment
- soil-grown strawberriese0
- Outcome
- overall masse0
- Direction
- highere0
- Value
- 23%e0
- Setting
- GREENHOUSEt0
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Verbatim
e0“In soil-grown strawberries, the overall mass was significantly higher by 23%”
t0“GROWING STRAWBERRIES IN A GREENHOUSE”
Claim · model-written summary
soil-grown strawberries showed larger variation of fruit size.
- Taxon
- STRAWBERRIESt0
- Treatment
- soil-grown strawberriese1
- Outcome
- variation of fruit sizee0
- Direction
- largere0
- Setting
- GREENHOUSEt0
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Verbatim
e0“there was a larger variation of fruit size indicated by a large standard deviation”
e1“In soil-grown strawberries, the overall mass was significantly higher by 23%”
t0“GROWING STRAWBERRIES IN A GREENHOUSE”
Claim · model-written summary
Hydroponic strawberry production was judged feasible at reasonable cost and more sustainable than soil growing.
- Taxon
- strawberries
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Fragaria ×ananassae0 - Outcome
- feasible, at reasonable cost and more sustainablee0
- Comparator
- traditionally soil grown systemse0
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Verbatim
e0“Growing strawberries in hydroponic systems are feasible, at reasonable cost and more sustainable compared to traditionally soil grown systems.”
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