Abstract
Tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill) is a perishable nutritive fruit vegetable with high organic acid content. It is a C3 plant which explains its low yield due to photorespiration. However, the productivity of the plant is enhanced by the use of fertilizers. The experiments were conducted at the Directorate of University Farms (DUFARMS), Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNAAB), between 2014 and 2015 to evaluate the effects of fertilizer type on tomato productivity. Two nutrient sources were investigated: NPK 15:15:15 (300 kg/ha); Poultry manure (20 t/ha) and the Unfertilized plots, as the control were assessed in growing tomato variety Roma VF using a Randomized Complete Block Design replicated three times. Data were collected on plant height, leaf area, number of flowers, fruit yield and unit fruit weight. Data were subjected to Analysis of Variance and the mean values were separated using Least Significant Difference at 5% probability level. Plants grown using poultry manure had taller plants, more leaves, more branches and more flowers. Plants treated with NPK 15:15:15 had higher yield and unit fruit weight in 2014 than 2015. However, there was no significant difference in the yield and unit fruit weight across treatment. In 2015, plants treated with poultry manure had higher yield and unit fruit weight than plants grown using NPK 15:15:15 and plants from the unfertilized treatment.
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Claim · model-written summary
Poultry manure produced taller tomato plants and more leaves and branches.
- Taxon
- Tomato
Solanum lycopersicume1 - Treatment
- poultry manuree0
- Outcome
- taller plants, more leaves, more branchese0
- Direction
- tallere0
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e0“Plants grown using poultry manure had taller plants, more leaves, more branches and more flowers”
e1“Tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill)”
Claim · model-written summary
Poultry manure produced more tomato flowers.
- Taxon
- TomatoSolanum lycopersicume1
- Treatment
- poultry manuree0
- Outcome
- more flowerse0
- Direction
- moree0
Not reportedComparator
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Verbatim
e0“Plants grown using poultry manure had taller plants, more leaves, more branches and more flowers”
e1“Tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill)”
Claim · model-written summary
NPK-treated tomato had higher yield and unit fruit weight in 2014 than in 2015.
- Taxon
- TomatoSolanum lycopersicume1
- Treatment
- NPK 15:15:15e0
- Outcome
- yield and unit fruit weighte0
- Direction
- highere0
- Comparator
- 2015e0
- Setting
- 2014e0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
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e0“Plants treated with NPK 15:15:15 had higher yield and unit fruit weight in 2014 than 2015”
e1“Tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill)”
Claim · model-written summary
Yield and unit fruit weight did not differ significantly across fertilizer treatments.
- Taxon
- TomatoSolanum lycopersicume1
- Outcome
- yield and unit fruit weighte0
- Direction
- no significant differencee0
- Comparator
- across treatmente0
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Verbatim
e0“there was no significant difference in the yield and unit fruit weight across treatment”
e1“Tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill)”
Claim · model-written summary
In 2015 poultry manure produced higher tomato yield than NPK and unfertilized treatments.
- Taxon
- TomatoSolanum lycopersicume1
- Treatment
- poultry manuree0
- Outcome
- yielde0
- Direction
- highere0
- Qualifier
- In 2015e0
- Comparator
- NPK 15:15:15 and plants from the unfertilized treatmente0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“In 2015, plants treated with poultry manure had higher yield and unit fruit weight than plants grown using NPK 15:15:15 and plants from the unfertilized treatment”
e1“Tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill)”
Claim · model-written summary
In 2015 poultry manure produced higher tomato unit fruit weight than NPK and unfertilized treatments.
- Taxon
- TomatoSolanum lycopersicume1
- Treatment
- poultry manuree0
- Outcome
- unit fruit weighte0
- Direction
- highere0
- Qualifier
- In 2015e0
- Comparator
- NPK 15:15:15 and plants from the unfertilized treatmente0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“In 2015, plants treated with poultry manure had higher yield and unit fruit weight than plants grown using NPK 15:15:15 and plants from the unfertilized treatment”
e1“Tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill)”
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