Abstract
Indigenous vegetables play an important role in most families in Western Kenya. The management practices that the farmer uses during its seed production has a greater effect on the final seed obtained. Fertilizer application has been determined to be the basic input that contributes to the final seed quality. This experiment was set out to determine the effects of different fertilizer types on the seed aspects of three AIVs. The experiment was laid out in a split plot in a Randomized Complete Block Design with three replications at the University of Eldoret farm. Three species were subjected to two fertilizer types: chicken manure (organic) and mavuno fertilizers (inorganic). Three plants in each of the varieties of spider plant and Amaranthus planted were tagged randomly. The silique lengths of the spider plant varieties, the inflorescence length of the Amaranthus were measured. Thousand seed weight of seeds of the three species was also done. Seeds of these species were kept at 4°C temperature for seven months then tested for the germination potential. The data obtained was then analyzed by Genstat software and the separation of means done by Tukey’s. The silique lengths did not vary significantly among the three different types of fertilizers used (P>0.05). However, the inflorescence lengths of the Amaranthus species differed significantly (P<0.05). There was a significant difference in the germination potential of seeds in which fertilizer had been used during planting (P<0.05). In all the three varieties, the use of fertilizers resulted in increased germination potential. The thousand seed weight of the three species differed significantly in spider plant and black night shade but not in Amaranthus. The use of chicken manure leads to increase in the length of inflorescence of Amaranthus species; thousand seed weight of spider plant and black night shade but it has no effects on silique lengths of spider plant and thousand seed weight of Amaranthus
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Claims 11
Claim · model-written summary
Spider plant silique lengths did not differ significantly across fertilizers.
Verbatim
e0“The silique lengths did not vary significantly among the three different types of fertilizers used (P>0.05)”
t0“silique lengths of the spider plant varieties”
Claim · model-written summary
Amaranthus inflorescence lengths differed significantly.
- Taxon
- Amaranthus
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Amaranthuse0 - Treatment
- fertilizerst0
- Outcome
- inflorescence lengthse0
- Direction
- differede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
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Verbatim
e0“the inflorescence lengths of the Amaranthus species differed significantly (P<0.05)”
t0“chicken manure (organic) and mavuno fertilizers (inorganic)”
Claim · model-written summary
Fertilizer use significantly increased seed germination potential in all three varieties.
- Taxon
- Indigenous Vegetablest0
- Treatment
- fertilizerse0
- Outcome
- germination potentiale0
- Direction
- increasede0
Not reportedComparator
Verbatim
e0“There was a significant difference in the germination potential of seeds in which fertilizer had been used during planting (P<0.05). In all the three varieties, the use of fertilizers resulted in increased germination potential”
t0“Indigenous Vegetables”
Claim · model-written summary
Thousand seed weight differed significantly in spider plant.
Verbatim
e0“The thousand seed weight of the three species differed significantly in spider plant and black night shade but not in Amaranthus”
Claim · model-written summary
Thousand seed weight differed significantly in black night shade.
- Taxon
- black night shade
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Solanum nigrume0 - Outcome
- thousand seed weighte0
- Direction
- differede0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
_Solanum_nigrum_3.jpg?width=500)
Verbatim
e0“The thousand seed weight of the three species differed significantly in spider plant and black night shade but not in Amaranthus”
Claim · model-written summary
Thousand seed weight did not differ significantly in Amaranthus.
- Taxon
- AmaranthusAmaranthuse0
- Outcome
- thousand seed weighte0
Not reportedDirection
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The thousand seed weight of the three species differed significantly in spider plant and black night shade but not in Amaranthus”
Claim · model-written summary
Chicken manure increased Amaranthus inflorescence length.
- Taxon
- AmaranthusAmaranthuse0
- Treatment
- chicken manuree0
- Outcome
- length of inflorescencee0
- Direction
- increasee0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The use of chicken manure leads to increase in the length of inflorescence of Amaranthus species”
Claim · model-written summary
Chicken manure increased spider plant thousand seed weight.
Not reportedComparator
Verbatim
e0“chicken manure leads to increase in the length of inflorescence of Amaranthus species; thousand seed weight of spider plant and black night shade”
Claim · model-written summary
Chicken manure increased black night shade thousand seed weight.
- Taxon
- black night shadeSolanum nigrume0
- Treatment
- chicken manuree0
- Outcome
- thousand seed weighte0
- Direction
- increasee0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“chicken manure leads to increase in the length of inflorescence of Amaranthus species; thousand seed weight of spider plant and black night shade”
Claim · model-written summary
Chicken manure had no effect on spider plant silique length.
Not reportedComparator
Verbatim
e0“it has no effects on silique lengths of spider plant”
t0“The use of chicken manure leads to increase”
Claim · model-written summary
Chicken manure had no effect on Amaranthus thousand seed weight.
- Taxon
- AmaranthusAmaranthuse0
- Treatment
- chicken manuret0
- Outcome
- thousand seed weighte0
- Direction
- no effectse0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“it has no effects on silique lengths of spider plant and thousand seed weight of Amaranthus”
t0“The use of chicken manure leads to increase”
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