Abstract
Deficiency of micronutrients is a major hurdle to achieve the optimum quality of crop plants fruits in agriculture. These micronutrients are equally important as that of macronutrients. In addition, better availability of micronutrients to the crops played an imperative role in improvement of reproductive growth of plants. Low organic content of arid and semiarid regions is a major factor that significantly decrease the micronutrients phytoavailability and fruit quality. Tomato is one of important crops which is widely consumed as a salad and cooking of food. Similarly, use of humate as an organic soil conditioned is also getting attention of farming community due to its potential benefits. That’s why keeping in mind the importance of organic matter and micronutrients, current experiment was conducted to examine the combine effect of potassium humate and micronutrients variable levels on fruit quality of tomato during summer and winter seasons. It is hypothesized that co-application of potassium and micronutrients application would be efficacious in improvement of tomato fruit quality. Results confirmed that 100% application rate of micronutrients (Zn, B and Fe) along with 15 kg ha-1 potassium humate was significantly best regarding an improvement in total soluble solids, lycopene, ascorbic acid and total acidity during summer and winter seasons. It is concluded that micronutrients should be used along with potassium humate to improve the quality of tomato fruits.
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Claim · model-written summary
Full micronutrient rate with potassium humate significantly improved total soluble solids, lycopene, and ascorbic acid in both seasons.
- Taxon
- tomato
Solanum lycopersicumt0 - Treatment
- 100% application rate of micronutrients (Zn, B and Fe) along with 15 kg ha-1 potassium humatee0
- Outcome
- total soluble solids, lycopene, ascorbic acide0
- Direction
- improvemente0
- Qualifier
- during summer and winter seasonse0
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Verbatim
e0“100% application rate of micronutrients (Zn, B and Fe) along with 15 kg ha-1 potassium humate was significantly best regarding an improvement in total soluble solids, lycopene, ascorbic acid and total acidity during summer and winter seasons”
t0“Fruit quality attributes of tomato affected by application of different levels of potassium humate and micronutrients (Zn, B and Fe)”
Claim · model-written summary
Full micronutrient rate with potassium humate significantly improved total acidity in both seasons.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Treatment
- 100% application rate of micronutrients (Zn, B and Fe) along with 15 kg ha-1 potassium humatee0
- Outcome
- total aciditye0
- Direction
- improvemente0
- Qualifier
- during summer and winter seasonse0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“100% application rate of micronutrients (Zn, B and Fe) along with 15 kg ha-1 potassium humate was significantly best regarding an improvement in total soluble solids, lycopene, ascorbic acid and total acidity during summer and winter seasons”
t0“Fruit quality attributes of tomato affected by application of different levels of potassium humate and micronutrients (Zn, B and Fe)”
Claim · model-written summary
The authors recommend micronutrients with potassium humate to improve tomato fruit quality.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicume0
- Outcome
- micronutrients should be used along with potassium humatee0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“micronutrients should be used along with potassium humate to improve the quality of tomato fruits”
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