Abstract
This research has experimentally investigated the interactive influences of salinity stress and leaf thinning on the growth, yield, water use efficiency, and fruit quality of cherry tomatoes cultivated under soilless conditions. The experiment was conducted in a plastic house (width of 5 m and length of 11 m) located in Gifu University. The seedlings were transplanted in a randomized complete block design with six plants per treatment, and a total of 36 plants in 18 pots (two plants per pot). The experiment received salinity treatment (no-salinity and salinity with electrical conductivity (EC) of 0.8 dS m−1 and 3.0 dS m−1, respectively) and leaf thinning treatment (no leaf thinning, basal leaf thinning and intersegment leaf thinning except the closest two). The experimental results showed that salinity stress negatively affected the growth, yield, marketable yield and water use efficiency of cherry tomatoes, but positively affected the fruit quality. Basal leaf removal significantly decreased the biomass, chlorophyll, and yield but significantly improved the fruit quality; that basal leaf removal coupled with salinity stress showed no influence on plant growth, but reduced the yield and greatly improved the fruit quality. Besides, tender leaves around truss removal significantly decreased the biomass, chlorophyll, yield, and water consumption, but improved the fruit quality; that tender leaves around truss removal coupled with salinity stress greatly decreased the biomass, chlorophyll, yield, and water consumption, but significantly improved the fruit quality.
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Claims 13
Claim · model-written summary
Salinity stress reduced cherry tomato growth, yield, marketable yield and water use efficiency.
- Taxon
- cherry tomatoes
Solanum lycopersicum var. cerasiformee0 - Treatment
- salinity stresse0
- Outcome
- growth, yield, marketable yielde0
- Direction
- negatively affectede0
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Verbatim
e0“salinity stress negatively affected the growth, yield, marketable yield and water use efficiency of cherry tomatoes”
Claim · model-written summary
Salinity stress improved fruit quality.
- Taxon
- cherry tomatoesSolanum lycopersicum var. cerasiformee0
- Treatment
- salinity stresse0
- Outcome
- fruit qualitye0
- Direction
- positively affectede0
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e0“salinity stress negatively affected the growth, yield, marketable yield and water use efficiency of cherry tomatoes, but positively affected the fruit quality”
Claim · model-written summary
Basal leaf removal significantly reduced biomass, chlorophyll and yield.
- Taxon
- Cherry TomatoesSolanum lycopersicum var. cerasiformet0
- Treatment
- Basal leaf removale0
- Outcome
- biomass, chlorophyll, and yielde0
- Direction
- decreasede0
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Verbatim
e0“Basal leaf removal significantly decreased the biomass, chlorophyll, and yield”
t0“Cherry Tomatoes”
Claim · model-written summary
Basal leaf removal significantly improved fruit quality.
- Taxon
- Cherry TomatoesSolanum lycopersicum var. cerasiformet0
- Treatment
- Basal leaf removale0
- Outcome
- fruit qualitye0
- Direction
- improvede0
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Verbatim
e0“Basal leaf removal significantly decreased the biomass, chlorophyll, and yield but significantly improved the fruit quality”
t0“Cherry Tomatoes”
Claim · model-written summary
Basal leaf removal combined with salinity had no influence on plant growth.
- Taxon
- Cherry TomatoesSolanum lycopersicum var. cerasiformet0
- Treatment
- basal leaf removal coupled with salinity stresse0
- Outcome
- plant growthe0
- Direction
- no influencee0
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Verbatim
e0“basal leaf removal coupled with salinity stress showed no influence on plant growth”
t0“Cherry Tomatoes”
Claim · model-written summary
Basal leaf removal combined with salinity reduced yield.
- Taxon
- Cherry TomatoesSolanum lycopersicum var. cerasiformet0
- Treatment
- basal leaf removal coupled with salinity stresse0
- Outcome
- yielde0
- Direction
- reducede0
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Verbatim
e0“basal leaf removal coupled with salinity stress showed no influence on plant growth, but reduced the yield”
t0“Cherry Tomatoes”
Claim · model-written summary
Basal leaf removal combined with salinity greatly improved fruit quality.
- Taxon
- Cherry TomatoesSolanum lycopersicum var. cerasiformet0
- Treatment
- basal leaf removal coupled with salinity stresse0
- Outcome
- fruit qualitye0
- Direction
- greatly improvede0
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Verbatim
e0“basal leaf removal coupled with salinity stress showed no influence on plant growth, but reduced the yield and greatly improved the fruit quality”
t0“Cherry Tomatoes”
Claim · model-written summary
Tender leaves around truss removal significantly decreased biomass, chlorophyll and yield.
- Taxon
- Cherry TomatoesSolanum lycopersicum var. cerasiformet0
- Treatment
- tender leaves around truss removale0
- Outcome
- biomass, chlorophyll, yielde0
- Direction
- decreasede0
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e0“tender leaves around truss removal significantly decreased the biomass, chlorophyll, yield, and water consumption”
t0“Cherry Tomatoes”
Claim · model-written summary
Tender leaves around truss removal significantly decreased water consumption.
- Taxon
- Cherry TomatoesSolanum lycopersicum var. cerasiformet0
- Treatment
- tender leaves around truss removale0
- Outcome
- water consumptione0
- Direction
- decreasede0
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Verbatim
e0“tender leaves around truss removal significantly decreased the biomass, chlorophyll, yield, and water consumption”
t0“Cherry Tomatoes”
Claim · model-written summary
Tender leaves around truss removal improved fruit quality.
- Taxon
- Cherry TomatoesSolanum lycopersicum var. cerasiformet0
- Treatment
- tender leaves around truss removale0
- Outcome
- fruit qualitye0
- Direction
- improvede0
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Verbatim
e0“tender leaves around truss removal significantly decreased the biomass, chlorophyll, yield, and water consumption, but improved the fruit quality”
t0“Cherry Tomatoes”
Claim · model-written summary
Tender leaf removal around trusses combined with salinity greatly reduced biomass, chlorophyll and yield.
- Taxon
- Cherry TomatoesSolanum lycopersicum var. cerasiformet0
- Treatment
- tender leaves around truss removal coupled with salinity stresse0
- Outcome
- biomass, chlorophyll, yielde0
- Direction
- decreasede0
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Verbatim
e0“tender leaves around truss removal coupled with salinity stress greatly decreased the biomass, chlorophyll, yield, and water consumption”
t0“Cherry Tomatoes”
Claim · model-written summary
Tender leaf removal around trusses combined with salinity greatly reduced water consumption.
- Taxon
- Cherry TomatoesSolanum lycopersicum var. cerasiformet0
- Treatment
- tender leaves around truss removal coupled with salinity stresse0
- Outcome
- water consumptione0
- Direction
- decreasede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“tender leaves around truss removal coupled with salinity stress greatly decreased the biomass, chlorophyll, yield, and water consumption”
t0“Cherry Tomatoes”
Claim · model-written summary
Tender leaf removal around trusses combined with salinity significantly improved fruit quality.
- Taxon
- Cherry TomatoesSolanum lycopersicum var. cerasiformet0
- Treatment
- tender leaves around truss removal coupled with salinity stresse0
- Outcome
- fruit qualitye0
- Direction
- improvede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“tender leaves around truss removal coupled with salinity stress greatly decreased the biomass, chlorophyll, yield, and water consumption, but significantly improved the fruit quality”
t0“Cherry Tomatoes”
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