Abstract
A two-year study experiment was conducted from January 2021 to December 2022 at the Teppi Agricultural Research Center (TARC) with the aim of identifying suitable planting material and an appropriate pre-planting storage method that can enhance turmeric seed quality and yield under rain-fed conditions. The experiment consisted of three planting materials (mother rhizomes, finger rhizomes, and mixed rhizomes) and five pre-planting storage methods (cemented floor, under tree shade, raised mesh-wired bed, pit with grass cover, and pit with soil cover). These factors were factorially arranged using a randomized complete block design with three replications. The results from the analysis of variance revealed that the seed quality, growth, and seed rhizome yield of turmeric were significantly (p<0.05) influenced by the main effect of both planting material and storage method. However, their interaction did not significantly affect these attributes (p>0.05). The highest clean and sprouted seed rhizomes, as well as total sprouts, were recorded in mother seed rhizomes and seed rhizomes stored under tree shade. Conversely, storing mother seed rhizomes on cemented floors resulted in the highest seed weight losses. Finger seed rhizomes stored in soil-covered pits produced the highest percentages of non-sprouted and decayed seed rhizomes. Regarding growth attributes, mother seed rhizomes led to the highest plant stands, plant height, stem girth, leaf growth, and tiller number. Storing seed rhizomes under tree shade performed the best across these growth attributes. Turmeric plants grown from mother seed rhizomes yielded a higher number of mother and finger rhizomes per plant and the highest fresh rhizome yield. Likewise, storing seed rhizomes under tree shade resulted in the highest fresh rhizome yield. In general, utilizing mother seed rhizomes and storing them under tree shade improved turmeric seed quality, growth, and seed rhizome yield. Therefore, farmers in the area are recommended to adopt these practices, but further research is needed to assess their economic feasibility.
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Claims 13
Claim · model-written summary
Planting material significantly affected turmeric seed quality, growth, and seed rhizome yield.
- Taxon
- turmeric
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Curcuma longae0 - Treatment
- planting materiale0
- Outcome
- seed quality, growth, and seed rhizome yielde0
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Verbatim
e0“seed quality, growth, and seed rhizome yield of turmeric were significantly (p<0.05) influenced by the main effect of both planting material and storage method”
Claim · model-written summary
Storage method significantly affected turmeric seed quality, growth, and seed rhizome yield.
- Taxon
- turmericCurcuma longae0
- Treatment
- storage methode0
- Outcome
- seed quality, growth, and seed rhizome yielde0
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e0“seed quality, growth, and seed rhizome yield of turmeric were significantly (p<0.05) influenced by the main effect of both planting material and storage method”
Claim · model-written summary
Planting material and storage method interaction was not significant for those turmeric attributes.
- Taxon
- turmericCurcuma longat0
- Treatment
- their interactione0
- Outcome
- these attributese0
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e0“their interaction did not significantly affect these attributes (p>0.05)”
t0“turmeric (Curcuma longa L.)”
Claim · model-written summary
Mother seed rhizomes had the highest clean and sprouted seed rhizomes and total sprouts.
- Taxon
- turmericCurcuma longat0
- Treatment
- mother seed rhizomese0
- Outcome
- clean and sprouted seed rhizomes, as well as total sproutse0
- Direction
- higheste0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The highest clean and sprouted seed rhizomes, as well as total sprouts, were recorded in mother seed rhizomes and seed rhizomes stored under tree shade”
t0“turmeric (Curcuma longa L.)”
Claim · model-written summary
Tree-shade storage had the highest clean and sprouted seed rhizomes and total sprouts.
- Taxon
- turmericCurcuma longat0
- Treatment
- stored under tree shadee0
- Outcome
- clean and sprouted seed rhizomes, as well as total sproutse0
- Direction
- higheste0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The highest clean and sprouted seed rhizomes, as well as total sprouts, were recorded in mother seed rhizomes and seed rhizomes stored under tree shade”
t0“turmeric (Curcuma longa L.)”
Claim · model-written summary
Mother rhizomes stored on cemented floors had the highest seed weight loss.
- Taxon
- turmericCurcuma longat0
- Treatment
- storing mother seed rhizomes on cemented floorse0
- Outcome
- seed weight lossese0
- Direction
- higheste0
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Verbatim
e0“storing mother seed rhizomes on cemented floors resulted in the highest seed weight losses”
t0“turmeric (Curcuma longa L.)”
Claim · model-written summary
Finger rhizomes stored in soil-covered pits had the highest percentages of non-sprouted and decayed seed rhizomes.
- Taxon
- turmericCurcuma longat0
- Treatment
- Finger seed rhizomes stored in soil-covered pitse0
- Outcome
- percentages of non-sprouted and decayed seed rhizomese0
- Direction
- higheste0
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Verbatim
e0“Finger seed rhizomes stored in soil-covered pits produced the highest percentages of non-sprouted and decayed seed rhizomes”
t0“turmeric (Curcuma longa L.)”
Claim · model-written summary
Mother seed rhizomes gave the highest plant stands, height, stem girth, leaf growth, and tiller number.
- Taxon
- turmericCurcuma longat0
- Treatment
- mother seed rhizomese0
- Outcome
- plant stands, plant height, stem girth, leaf growth, and tiller numbere0
- Direction
- higheste0
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Verbatim
e0“mother seed rhizomes led to the highest plant stands, plant height, stem girth, leaf growth, and tiller number”
t0“turmeric (Curcuma longa L.)”
Claim · model-written summary
Tree-shade storage performed best for the reported growth attributes.
- Taxon
- turmericCurcuma longat0
- Treatment
- Storing seed rhizomes under tree shadee0
- Outcome
- these growth attributese0
- Direction
- beste0
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Verbatim
e0“Storing seed rhizomes under tree shade performed the best across these growth attributes”
t0“turmeric (Curcuma longa L.)”
Claim · model-written summary
Mother seed rhizomes yielded more mother and finger rhizomes per plant.
- Taxon
- TurmericCurcuma longae0
- Treatment
- mother seed rhizomese0
- Outcome
- number of mother and finger rhizomes per plante0
- Direction
- highere0
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Verbatim
e0“Turmeric plants grown from mother seed rhizomes yielded a higher number of mother and finger rhizomes per plant”
Claim · model-written summary
Mother seed rhizomes gave the highest fresh rhizome yield.
- Taxon
- TurmericCurcuma longae0
- Treatment
- mother seed rhizomese0
- Outcome
- fresh rhizome yielde0
- Direction
- higheste0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Turmeric plants grown from mother seed rhizomes yielded a higher number of mother and finger rhizomes per plant and the highest fresh rhizome yield”
Claim · model-written summary
Tree-shade storage gave the highest fresh rhizome yield.
- Taxon
- turmericCurcuma longat0
- Treatment
- storing seed rhizomes under tree shadee0
- Outcome
- fresh rhizome yielde0
- Direction
- higheste0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“storing seed rhizomes under tree shade resulted in the highest fresh rhizome yield”
t0“turmeric (Curcuma longa L.)”
Claim · model-written summary
The authors recommend mother seed rhizomes and tree-shade storage for farmers in the area.
- Taxon
- turmericCurcuma longae0
- Outcome
- farmers in the area are recommended to adopt these practicese0
- Qualifier
- further research is needed to assess their economic feasibilitye0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“utilizing mother seed rhizomes and storing them under tree shade improved turmeric seed quality, growth, and seed rhizome yield. Therefore, farmers in the area are recommended to adopt these practices, but further research is needed to assess their economic feasibility”
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