Abstract
SummaryOnion seed cv White Spanish was hand-sown in a square arrangement at 178, 400, 625, 816, 1 111 and 1600 plants m−2. Increases in plant density resulted in reductions in plant size, mean bulb weight, plant fresh and dry weights, number of leaves, cumulative leaf length and time to maturity, but did not affect soluble solids content, the bulb ratio or the percentage dry matter per plant. Density had no effect on bulb uniformity but could be used to determine the distribution of size grades within the crop. Total and pickling-bulb yields gave overturning type relationships with plant density and were highest at 400 and 625 plants m−2 respectively. The practical implications of these results are discussed.
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Claims 8
Claim · model-written summary
Increasing onion density reduced plant size, mean bulb weight, and fresh weight.
- Taxon
- Onion
Allium cepae1 - Material
- White Spanishe1
- Treatment
- Increases in plant densitye0
- Outcome
- plant size, mean bulb weight, plant freshe0
- Direction
- reductionse0
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Verbatim
e0“Increases in plant density resulted in reductions in plant size, mean bulb weight, plant fresh and dry weights, number of leaves, cumulative leaf length and time to maturity”
e1“Onion seed cv White Spanish”
Claim · model-written summary
Increasing onion density reduced dry weight, leaf number, and cumulative leaf length.
- Taxon
- OnionAllium cepae1
- Material
- White Spanishe1
- Treatment
- Increases in plant densitye0
- Outcome
- dry weights, number of leaves, cumulative leaf lengthe0
- Direction
- reductionse0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Increases in plant density resulted in reductions in plant size, mean bulb weight, plant fresh and dry weights, number of leaves, cumulative leaf length and time to maturity”
e1“Onion seed cv White Spanish”
Claim · model-written summary
Increasing onion density shortened time to maturity.
- Taxon
- OnionAllium cepae1
- Material
- White Spanishe1
- Treatment
- Increases in plant densitye0
- Outcome
- time to maturitye0
- Direction
- reductionse0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Increases in plant density resulted in reductions in plant size, mean bulb weight, plant fresh and dry weights, number of leaves, cumulative leaf length and time to maturity”
e1“Onion seed cv White Spanish”
Claim · model-written summary
Plant density did not affect onion soluble solids, bulb ratio, or dry matter percentage.
- Taxon
- OnionAllium cepae2
- Material
- White Spanishe2
- Treatment
- plant densitye1
- Outcome
- soluble solids content, the bulb ratio or the percentage dry matter per plante0
- Direction
- did not affecte0
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Verbatim
e0“but did not affect soluble solids content, the bulb ratio or the percentage dry matter per plant.”
e1“Increases in plant density”
e2“Onion seed cv White Spanish”
Claim · model-written summary
Plant density did not affect onion bulb uniformity.
- Taxon
- OnionAllium cepae1
- Treatment
- Densitye0
- Outcome
- bulb uniformitye0
- Direction
- no effecte0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Density had no effect on bulb uniformity”
e1“Onion seed cv White Spanish”
Claim · model-written summary
Plant density determined the distribution of onion bulb size grades.
- Taxon
- OnionAllium cepae1
- Treatment
- Densitye0
- Outcome
- distribution of size gradese0
Not reportedComparatorDirection
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Density had no effect on bulb uniformity but could be used to determine the distribution of size grades within the crop.”
e1“Onion seed cv White Spanish”
Claim · model-written summary
Total onion yield had an overturning relationship with density and peaked at 400 plants m−2.
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Total and pickling-bulb yields gave overturning type relationships with plant density and were highest at 400 and 625 plants m−2 respectively.”
e1“Onion seed cv White Spanish”
Claim · model-written summary
Pickling-bulb yield had an overturning relationship with density and peaked at 625 plants m−2.
- Taxon
- OnionAllium cepae1
- Treatment
- plant densitye0
- Outcome
- pickling-bulb yieldse0
- Direction
- higheste0
- Value
- 625 plants m−2e0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Total and pickling-bulb yields gave overturning type relationships with plant density and were highest at 400 and 625 plants m−2 respectively.”
e1“Onion seed cv White Spanish”
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