Abstract
Tomato plants were foliar sprayed with naphthalene acetic acid (0.02%) and calcium chloride (0.5%, 1%) individually as well as in combination to determine its effect on growth, nutrient uptake, incidence of blossom end rot, fruit yield, and enhancement of shelf life. The results showed increased absorption of calcium in tomato plants and fruits, which were treated with NAA in combination with CaCl2. Higher level of CACl2 (1%) with NAA (0.02%) increased plant growth and yield by improving mineral uptake of tomato plants. The improved calcium absorption also resulted in lowering occurrence of blossom end rot in tomato fruits. In addition, it was also observed that during storage at ambient conditions (20-25 °C) for sixteen days, tomato fruits maintained best quality for longer period of time when treated with calcium chloride (1%) along with naphthalene acetic acid (0.02%) as compared to other treatments. Although, fruit quality was lowered with passage of storage time but tomato fruits from treated plants maintained their quality for longer duration as compared to control.
Abstract from the paper’s OpenAlex record, shown for indexing and research. Copyright remains with the authors or the publisher. Read at the source ↗
The text the model read, with the source record’s inline markup (italics, sub- and superscripts) rendered and its character entities decoded; quote offsets refer to the raw text.
Claims 6
Claim · model-written summary
Foliar NAA combined with CaCl2 increased calcium absorption in tomato plants and fruits.
- Taxon
- tomato plants
Solanum lycopersicume1 - Treatment
- NAA in combination with CaCl2e1
- Outcome
- absorption of calciume1
- Direction
- increasede1
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e1“The results showed increased absorption of calcium in tomato plants and fruits, which were treated with NAA in combination with CaCl2”
Claim · model-written summary
Higher CaCl2 (1%) with NAA (0.02%) increased plant growth and yield by improving mineral uptake.
- Taxon
- tomato plantsSolanum lycopersicume2
- Treatment
- Higher level of CACl2 (1%) with NAA (0.02%)e2
- Outcome
- plant growth and yielde2
- Direction
- increasede2
- Qualifier
- by improving mineral uptakee2
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e2“Higher level of CACl2 (1%) with NAA (0.02%) increased plant growth and yield by improving mineral uptake of tomato plants”
Claim · model-written summary
Improved calcium absorption was associated with lower occurrence of blossom end rot in tomato fruits.
- Taxon
- tomato fruitsSolanum lycopersicume3
- Compound
- calciume3
- Outcome
- occurrence of blossom end rote3
- Direction
- loweringe3
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e3“The improved calcium absorption also resulted in lowering occurrence of blossom end rot in tomato fruits”
Claim · model-written summary
Tomato fruits from plants treated with CaCl2 (1%) and NAA (0.02%) kept their best quality longer than fruits from other treatments during storage.
- Taxon
- tomato fruitsSolanum lycopersicume4
- Treatment
- calcium chloride (1%) along with naphthalene acetic acid (0.02%)e4
- Outcome
- qualitye4
- Direction
- maintainede4
- Comparator
- other treatmentse4
- Setting
- ambient conditions (20-25 °C)e4
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e4“during storage at ambient conditions (20-25 °C) for sixteen days, tomato fruits maintained best quality for longer period of time when treated with calcium chloride (1%) along with naphthalene acetic acid (0.02%) as compared to other treatments”
Claim · model-written summary
Fruit quality declined with storage time.
- Taxon
- tomato fruitsSolanum lycopersicume4
- Outcome
- fruit qualitye5
- Qualifier
- with passage of storage timee5
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e5“Although, fruit quality was lowered with passage of storage time”
e4“tomato fruits maintained best quality”
Claim · model-written summary
Fruits from treated plants kept their quality longer than fruits from control plants.
- Taxon
- tomato fruitsSolanum lycopersicume6
- Treatment
- treated plantse6
- Outcome
- qualitye6
- Direction
- maintainede6
- Comparator
- controle6
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e6“tomato fruits from treated plants maintained their quality for longer duration as compared to control”
The same questions in other papers
1-naphthaleneacetic acid · yield · Solanum lycopersicum (tomato)Results differ
20 papers in the same direction as this paper · 2 in the opposite direction
- negative
- negative
- positive
19 papers more in this group
See all 23 papers →1-naphthaleneacetic acid · quality: general · Solanum lycopersicum (tomato)Positive and negative results
1 paper in the same direction as this paper · 1 in the opposite direction
- negative
- positive
1-naphthaleneacetic acid · nutrient: content · Solanum lycopersicum (tomato)Results agree
1 paper in the same direction as this paper
- positive
calcium dichloride · yield · Solanum lycopersicum (tomato)Results agree
1 paper in the same direction as this paper
- positive
calcium chloride dihydrate · nutrient: content · Solanum lycopersicum (tomato)Results agree
4 papers in the same direction as this paper
- positive
- positive
- positive
1 paper more in this group
See all 5 papers →calcium chloride dihydrate · quality: general · Solanum lycopersicum (tomato)Results agree
6 papers in the same direction as this paper
- positive
- positive
- positive
3 papers more in this group
See all 7 papers →Claims are grouped by organism, treatment and what was measured or targeted. A paper counts as positive when any of its claims in the group is positive.