Abstract
BACKGROUND: Undeviating climatic instabilities have increased the incidents of drought. Crop performance and yield attributes of tomatoes are negatively affected by drought stress. Biochar is an organic amendment that can increase crop yield and nutritional value under water-deficient conditions by retaining water and providing nutrients (nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, and other trace elements). RESULTS: The present study was designed to investigate the effects of biochar on tomato plant physiology, yield, and nutritional quality under deficit moisture regimes. Plants were subjected to two biochar levels (0.1% and 0.2%) and four moisture levels [100%, 70%, 60%, and 50% field capacities (FCs)]. Drought stress, especially 50D (50% FC), severely affected the plant morphology, physiology, yield, and fruit quality attributes. However, plants grown in biochar-amended soil showed significant increase in the studied attributes. Plant height, root length, fresh and dry weight of root, the number of fruits per plant, fruit fresh and dry weight, ash percent, crude fat, crude fiber, crude protein, and lycopene contents were increased in plants grown in biochar-amended soil under control and drought stress. CONCLUSION: Biochar at 0.2% application rate depicted a more pronounced increment in the studied parameters than 0.1% and can save 30% water without compromising tomato crop yield and nutritional value. © 2023 Society of Chemical Industry.
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Drought stress severely decreased plant morphology, physiology, yield and fruit quality attributes of tomato.
- Taxon
- tomato
Solanum lycopersicume0 - Treatment
- Drought stress, especially 50D (50% FC)e1
- Outcome
- plant morphology, physiology, yield, and fruit quality attributese1
- Direction
- decreaseinferrede1
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e0“effects of biochar on tomato plant physiology”
e1“Drought stress, especially 50D (50% FC), severely affected the plant morphology, physiology, yield, and fruit quality attributes”
Claim · model-written summary
Plants in biochar-amended soil showed a significant increase in the studied attributes.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicume0
- Treatment
- biochar-amended soile2
- Outcome
- studied attributese2
- Direction
- increasee2
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e0“effects of biochar on tomato plant physiology”
e2“plants grown in biochar-amended soil showed significant increase in the studied attributes”
Claim · model-written summary
Plant height and root length were increased in biochar-amended soil under control and drought stress.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicume0
- Treatment
- biochar-amended soile3
- Outcome
- Plant height, root lengthe3
- Direction
- increasede3
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e0“effects of biochar on tomato plant physiology”
e3“Plant height, root length, fresh and dry weight of root, the number of fruits per plant, fruit fresh and dry weight, ash percent, crude fat, crude fiber, crude protein, and lycopene contents were increased in plants grown in biochar-amended soil under control and drought stress”
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Fresh and dry weight of root were increased in biochar-amended soil under control and drought stress.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicume0
- Treatment
- biochar-amended soile3
- Outcome
- fresh and dry weight of roote3
- Direction
- increasede3
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e0“effects of biochar on tomato plant physiology”
e3“Plant height, root length, fresh and dry weight of root, the number of fruits per plant, fruit fresh and dry weight, ash percent, crude fat, crude fiber, crude protein, and lycopene contents were increased in plants grown in biochar-amended soil under control and drought stress”
Claim · model-written summary
The number of fruits per plant, fruit fresh and dry weight were increased in biochar-amended soil under control and drought stress.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicume0
- Treatment
- biochar-amended soile3
- Outcome
- the number of fruits per plant, fruit fresh and dry weighte3
- Direction
- increasede3
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e0“effects of biochar on tomato plant physiology”
e3“Plant height, root length, fresh and dry weight of root, the number of fruits per plant, fruit fresh and dry weight, ash percent, crude fat, crude fiber, crude protein, and lycopene contents were increased in plants grown in biochar-amended soil under control and drought stress”
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Ash percent, crude fat and crude fiber were increased in biochar-amended soil under control and drought stress.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicume0
- Treatment
- biochar-amended soile3
- Outcome
- ash percent, crude fat, crude fibere3
- Direction
- increasede3
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e0“effects of biochar on tomato plant physiology”
e3“Plant height, root length, fresh and dry weight of root, the number of fruits per plant, fruit fresh and dry weight, ash percent, crude fat, crude fiber, crude protein, and lycopene contents were increased in plants grown in biochar-amended soil under control and drought stress”
Claim · model-written summary
Crude protein and lycopene contents were increased in biochar-amended soil under control and drought stress.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicume0
- Treatment
- biochar-amended soile3
- Outcome
- crude protein, and lycopene contentse3
- Direction
- increasede3
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e0“effects of biochar on tomato plant physiology”
e3“Plant height, root length, fresh and dry weight of root, the number of fruits per plant, fruit fresh and dry weight, ash percent, crude fat, crude fiber, crude protein, and lycopene contents were increased in plants grown in biochar-amended soil under control and drought stress”
Claim · model-written summary
Biochar at 0.2% depicted a more pronounced increment in the studied parameters than 0.1%.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicume0
- Treatment
- Biochar at 0.2% application ratee4
- Outcome
- studied parameterse4
- Direction
- more pronounced incremente4
- Comparator
- 0.1%e4
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e0“effects of biochar on tomato plant physiology”
e4“Biochar at 0.2% application rate depicted a more pronounced increment in the studied parameters than 0.1%”
Claim · model-written summary
Biochar at 0.2% can save 30% water without compromising tomato crop yield and nutritional value.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicume5
- Outcome
- tomato crop yielde5
- Value
- 30%e5
- Qualifier
- without compromisinge5
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e5“can save 30% water without compromising tomato crop yield and nutritional value”
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