Abstract
Two field trials were conducted at the Lowveld Experimental Station (LES) and Malkerns Research Station (MRS) to determine the agronomic performance of sweet potato genotypes in Eswatini under organic and inorganic soil amendments.A 3 x 5 factorial experiment was laid out in a randomised complete block with three replications.The treatments included four sweetpotato genotypes, Namanga, Cecelia, Melinda and Ligwalagwala with five nutrient amendments: no fertiliser/manure, four rates of cattle manure at 20, 40, 60 and NPK 2:3:4 (39) at 0.45 tonnes per hectare.Field results showed significant differences (P < 0.05) among sweet potato genotypes and yield at LES and MRS.Mean petiole and vines lengths at LES and MRS under the different treatments.showed significant differences among sweet potato genotypes.Results from LES and MRS showed that growing Melinda using inorganic fertilizers at 0.45 t/ha gave the highest marketable yield of 29.46 and 26.34 t/ha respectively.The results showed relatively similar levels of performance of inorganic fertilizer when compared with cattle manure applications.
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Claims 5
Claim · model-written summary
Sweet potato genotypes differed significantly in yield at both stations.
- Taxon
- sweet potato
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Ipomoea batatase0 - Material
- sweet potato genotypese0
- Outcome
- yielde0
- Setting
- LES and MRSe0
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Verbatim
e0“Field results showed significant differences (P < 0.05) among sweet potato genotypes and yield at LES and MRS.”
Claim · model-written summary
Mean petiole and vine lengths differed significantly among genotypes at both stations.
- Taxon
- sweet potatoIpomoea batatase0
- Material
- sweet potato genotypese0
- Outcome
- Mean petiole and vines lengthse0
- Setting
- LES and MRSe0
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Verbatim
e0“Mean petiole and vines lengths at LES and MRS under the different treatments.showed significant differences among sweet potato genotypes”
Claim · model-written summary
Melinda with inorganic fertilizer gave the highest marketable yield at LES, 29.46 t/ha.
- Taxon
- sweet potatoIpomoea batatast0
- Material
- Melindae0
- Treatment
- inorganic fertilizers at 0.45 t/hae0
- Outcome
- marketable yielde0
- Direction
- higheste0
- Value
- 29.46e0
- Setting
- LESe1
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Verbatim
e0“growing Melinda using inorganic fertilizers at 0.45 t/ha gave the highest marketable yield of 29.46 and 26.34 t/ha respectively”
e1“Results from LES and MRS”
t0“sweet potato genotypes”
Claim · model-written summary
Melinda with inorganic fertilizer gave the highest marketable yield at MRS, 26.34 t/ha.
- Taxon
- sweet potatoIpomoea batatast0
- Material
- Melindae0
- Treatment
- inorganic fertilizers at 0.45 t/hae0
- Outcome
- marketable yielde0
- Direction
- higheste0
- Value
- 26.34 t/hae0
- Setting
- MRSe1
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“growing Melinda using inorganic fertilizers at 0.45 t/ha gave the highest marketable yield of 29.46 and 26.34 t/ha respectively”
e1“Results from LES and MRS”
t0“sweet potato genotypes”
Claim · model-written summary
Inorganic fertilizer and cattle manure gave relatively similar performance.
- Taxon
- sweet potatoIpomoea batatast0
- Treatment
- inorganic fertilizere0
- Outcome
- performancee0
- Direction
- relatively similare0
- Comparator
- cattle manure applicationse0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“relatively similar levels of performance of inorganic fertilizer when compared with cattle manure applications”
t0“sweet potato genotypes”
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