Abstract
Two long-season tomato crops ( Lycopersicon esculentum Mill. cv. Trust; in 1996 and 1997) were grown in an open rockwool system (conventional culture method) and in closed rockwool culture systems with different nutrient feedings to develop a closed tomato production system with zero discharge of nutrient solutions to the environment. The tomato grown in the closed rockwool systems with a modified rockwool or nutrient film technique (NFT) feeding formula achieved similar marketable yield as the tomato grown in the conventional open rockwool system. Similarly, there were no differences in early plant growth and photosynthesis, total plant biomass and biomass partitioning, fruit yield, or fruit size and grades. The tomato plants grown in the closed rockwool systems senesced slower, as demonstrated by higher photosynthesis in old leaves, and had better root systems than the plants grown in the conventional open rockwool system. The fruit quality of tomato produced in the closed rockwool systems was better than that of tomato produced in the open rockwool system in one of two crops. These results demonstrated that the closed rockwool system with optimized nutrient feeding is an economically and environmentally sound alternative to the conventional open rockwool production method.
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Claim · model-written summary
Tomato grown in closed rockwool systems with a modified rockwool or NFT feeding formula achieved marketable yield similar to open rockwool culture.
- Taxon
- tomato
Solanum lycopersicume1 - Treatment
- closed rockwool systems with a modified rockwool or nutrient film technique (NFT) feeding formulae1
- Outcome
- marketable yielde1
- Direction
- similare1
- Comparator
- conventional open rockwool systeme1
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e1“The tomato grown in the closed rockwool systems with a modified rockwool or nutrient film technique (NFT) feeding formula achieved similar marketable yield as the tomato grown in the conventional open rockwool system”
Claim · model-written summary
Closed rockwool systems did not change early plant growth and photosynthesis of tomato compared with open rockwool culture.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicume1
- Treatment
- closed rockwool systemse1
- Outcome
- early plant growth and photosynthesise2
- Direction
- no differencese2
- Comparator
- conventional open rockwool systeme1
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e1“The tomato grown in the closed rockwool systems with a modified rockwool or nutrient film technique (NFT) feeding formula achieved similar marketable yield as the tomato grown in the conventional open rockwool system”
e2“there were no differences in early plant growth and photosynthesis, total plant biomass and biomass partitioning, fruit yield, or fruit size and grades”
Claim · model-written summary
Closed rockwool systems did not change total plant biomass or biomass partitioning of tomato compared with open rockwool culture.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicume1
- Treatment
- closed rockwool systemse1
- Outcome
- total plant biomass and biomass partitioninge2
- Direction
- no differencese2
- Comparator
- conventional open rockwool systeme1
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e1“The tomato grown in the closed rockwool systems with a modified rockwool or nutrient film technique (NFT) feeding formula achieved similar marketable yield as the tomato grown in the conventional open rockwool system”
e2“there were no differences in early plant growth and photosynthesis, total plant biomass and biomass partitioning, fruit yield, or fruit size and grades”
Claim · model-written summary
Closed rockwool systems did not change tomato fruit yield, fruit size or fruit grades compared with open rockwool culture.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicume1
- Treatment
- closed rockwool systemse1
- Outcome
- fruit yield, or fruit size and gradese2
- Direction
- no differencese2
- Comparator
- conventional open rockwool systeme1
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e1“The tomato grown in the closed rockwool systems with a modified rockwool or nutrient film technique (NFT) feeding formula achieved similar marketable yield as the tomato grown in the conventional open rockwool system”
e2“there were no differences in early plant growth and photosynthesis, total plant biomass and biomass partitioning, fruit yield, or fruit size and grades”
Claim · model-written summary
Tomato plants in closed rockwool systems senesced more slowly than those in open rockwool, as shown by higher photosynthesis in old leaves.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicume3
- Organ / stage
- old leavese3
- Treatment
- closed rockwool systemse3
- Outcome
- senescede3
- Direction
- slowere3
- Qualifier
- as demonstrated by higher photosynthesis in old leavese3
- Comparator
- conventional open rockwool systeme3
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e3“The tomato plants grown in the closed rockwool systems senesced slower, as demonstrated by higher photosynthesis in old leaves, and had better root systems than the plants grown in the conventional open rockwool system”
Claim · model-written summary
Tomato plants in closed rockwool systems had better root systems than those in open rockwool culture.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicume3
- Treatment
- closed rockwool systemse3
- Outcome
- root systemse3
- Direction
- bettere3
- Comparator
- conventional open rockwool systeme3
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e3“The tomato plants grown in the closed rockwool systems senesced slower, as demonstrated by higher photosynthesis in old leaves, and had better root systems than the plants grown in the conventional open rockwool system”
Claim · model-written summary
Fruit quality of tomato from closed rockwool systems was better than from open rockwool in one of two crops.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicume4
- Treatment
- closed rockwool systemse4
- Outcome
- fruit qualitye4
- Direction
- bettere4
- Qualifier
- in one of two cropse4
- Comparator
- open rockwool systeme4
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e4“The fruit quality of tomato produced in the closed rockwool systems was better than that of tomato produced in the open rockwool system in one of two crops”
Claim · model-written summary
The closed rockwool system with optimized nutrient feeding is an economically and environmentally sound alternative to conventional open rockwool production of tomato.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicume0
- Material
- cv. Truste0
- Outcome
- an economically and environmentally sound alternative to the conventional open rockwool production methode5
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Two long-season tomato crops ( Lycopersicon esculentum Mill. cv. Trust; in 1996 and 1997)”
e5“These results demonstrated that the closed rockwool system with optimized nutrient feeding is an economically and environmentally sound alternative to the conventional open rockwool production method”
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