Abstract
Foliar fertilization is a popular practice for supplying mineral nutrients to the crops, especially under conditions of limited availability of soil nutrients. This study hypothesized that the foliar nutrients application can enhance the growth and yield of okra. The experiment was conducted at Complex Field 10, Faculty of Agriculture, Universiti Putra Malaysia, and laid out as Randomized Completely Block Design (RCBD) with four treatments and six replications. The treatments consist of Treatment 1 (T1): Foliar (calcium and magnesium); Treatment 2 (T2): NPK 15:15:15; Treatment 3 (T3): Foliar (calcium and magnesium plus NPK 15:15:15), and Treatment 4: Control. The foliar were sprayed with 2% on the leaf every 2 weeks and the fertilizer was spread around the crop. The data were recorded by measuring (i) the plant height (4 weeks interval); (ii) fruit yield (until 120 DAP); (iii) days of flowering (from 1 DAP); (iv) number of fruits and (v) branches per plant (until 120 DAP). Soil analyses were conducted before and after the experiment. All the parameters measured were analyzed using ANOVA and mean separations of LSD test using SAS 9.0 with p < 0.05. This study concluded that T3 showed the highest growth rate and yield as compared to other treatments. There was a significant difference between T1 and T2, where T2 showed prominent results. Therefore, it was concluded that fertilizer (NPK) cannot be substituted with foliar nutrients (calcium and magnesium), it can only supplement the current application.
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 4
Claim · model-written summary
The combined foliar calcium-magnesium and NPK treatment had the highest okra growth rate.
- Taxon
- Okra
.jpg?width=60)
Abelmoschus esculentust0 - Treatment
- Foliar (calcium and magnesium plus NPK 15:15:15)e0
- Outcome
- growth ratee1
- Direction
- higheste1
- Comparator
- other treatmentse1
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
.jpg?width=500)
Verbatim
t0“Okra”
e0“Treatment 3 (T3): Foliar (calcium and magnesium plus NPK 15:15:15)”
e1“T3 showed the highest growth rate and yield as compared to other treatments.”
Claim · model-written summary
The combined foliar calcium-magnesium and NPK treatment had the highest okra yield.
- Taxon
- OkraAbelmoschus esculentust0
- Treatment
- Foliar (calcium and magnesium plus NPK 15:15:15)e0
- Outcome
- yielde1
- Direction
- higheste1
- Comparator
- other treatmentse1
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“Okra”
e0“Treatment 3 (T3): Foliar (calcium and magnesium plus NPK 15:15:15)”
e1“T3 showed the highest growth rate and yield as compared to other treatments.”
Claim · model-written summary
NPK treatment gave significantly better results than foliar nutrients alone.
- Taxon
- OkraAbelmoschus esculentust0
- Treatment
- NPK 15:15:15e0
- Outcome
- prominent resultse1
- Direction
- prominente1
- Comparator
- Foliar (calcium and magnesium)e0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“Okra”
e0“Treatment 1 (T1): Foliar (calcium and magnesium); Treatment 2 (T2): NPK 15:15:15”
e1“There was a significant difference between T1 and T2, where T2 showed prominent results.”
Claim · model-written summary
Authors concluded that foliar calcium and magnesium supplement rather than substitute for NPK.
- Taxon
- OkraAbelmoschus esculentust0
- Outcome
- it can only supplement the current applicatione0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“Okra”
e0“fertilizer (NPK) cannot be substituted with foliar nutrients (calcium and magnesium), it can only supplement the current application.”
The same questions in other papers
magnesium atom · yield · Abelmoschus esculentus (okra)Results agree
1 paper in the same direction as this paper
- positive
magnesium atom · growth · Abelmoschus esculentus (okra)Results agree
1 paper in the same direction as this paper
- positive
calcium atom · growth · Abelmoschus esculentus (okra)Results agree
2 papers in the same direction as this paper
- positive
- positive
calcium atom · yield · Abelmoschus esculentus (okra)Results agree
5 papers in the same direction as this paper
- positive
- positive
- positive
2 papers more in this group
See all 6 papers →application · growth · Abelmoschus esculentus (okra)Positive and negative results
74 papers in the same direction as this paper · 2 in the opposite direction
- negative
- no effect
- positive
73 papers more in this group
See all 77 papers →application · yield · Abelmoschus esculentus (okra)Positive and negative results
111 papers in the same direction as this paper · 2 in the opposite direction · 1 reporting no difference from an alternative
- no effect
- negative
- no effect
111 papers more in this group
See all 115 papers →fertilization · growth · Abelmoschus esculentus (okra)Positive and negative results
189 papers in the same direction as this paper · 16 in the opposite direction · 1 reporting no difference from an alternative
- no effect
- no effect
- negative
203 papers more in this group
See all 207 papers →fertilization · yield · Abelmoschus esculentus (okra)Positive and negative results
354 papers in the same direction as this paper · 14 in the opposite direction · 4 reporting no difference from an alternative
- negative
- no effect
- no effect
369 papers more in this group
See all 373 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.