Paper · 1981 · Soil Science & Plant Nutrition

The role of macronutrients in cabbage-head formation

Tetsuo Hara; Yoji Sonoda

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Abstract

Abstract Cabbage plants were grown under graded levels of nitrogen supply in nutrient solution (5, 50, 500 ppm N) or graded levels of light intensity (100, 61, 34% of natural light), and the effects of each treatment on the growth and 14CO2 and 15NO3-N assimilation of the plants were studied. As the nitrogen supply increased, the plant dry weight increased from 5 to 50 ppm N and decreased at 500 ppm N. Plants grown at 50 ppm N had the highest sugar content and the highest rate of 14 CO2 assimilation. This was why efficient cabbage-head development occurred at 50 ppm N. As the light intensity decreased, so the plant dry weight and the cabbage-head yield decreased, resulting from a decrease in the sugar content and in the rate of 14CO2 assimilation. The 15NO3-N uptake by the plants was smaller at a low light intensity than at a high light intensity, and in the plants at the low light intensity the incorporation of 15N into the 80% ethanol-insoluble fraction in the cabbage-head was impaired. The later the growth stage, at which 14CO2 was assimilated by the plants, the greater was the 14C-retention percentage at harvest time and the distribution of 14C into the cabbage-head. The 14C-retention percentage decreased with increase in the nitrogen supply or decrease in the light intensity.

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Claims 12

Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultpositivemeasured

Claim · model-written summary

Increasing nitrogen supply from 5 to 50 ppm N increased cabbage plant dry weight.

Treatment
nitrogen supplye0
Outcome
plant dry weighte0
Direction
increasede0
Qualifier
from 5 to 50 ppm Ne0

Not reportedComparator

Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Brassica oleracea var. capitata
Brassica oleracea var. capitata · TaxonThamizhpparithi Maari · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

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“cabbage-head formation”

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“As the nitrogen supply increased, the plant dry weight increased from 5 to 50 ppm N and decreased at 500 ppm N”

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Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultnegativemeasured

Claim · model-written summary

Nitrogen supply at 500 ppm N decreased cabbage plant dry weight.

Treatment
nitrogen supplye0
Outcome
plant dry weighte0
Direction
decreasede0
Qualifier
at 500 ppm Ne0

Not reportedComparator

Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Brassica oleracea var. capitata
Brassica oleracea var. capitata · TaxonThamizhpparithi Maari · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

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“cabbage-head formation”

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“As the nitrogen supply increased, the plant dry weight increased from 5 to 50 ppm N and decreased at 500 ppm N”

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Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultmeasured

Claim · model-written summary

Cabbage grown at 50 ppm N had the highest sugar content.

Treatment
50 ppm Ne1
Outcome
sugar contente1
Direction
higheste1

Not reportedComparator

Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Brassica oleracea var. capitata
Brassica oleracea var. capitata · TaxonThamizhpparithi Maari · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

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“cabbage-head formation”

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“Plants grown at 50 ppm N had the highest sugar content and the highest rate of 14 CO2 assimilation”

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Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultmeasured

Claim · model-written summary

Cabbage grown at 50 ppm N had the highest rate of 14CO2 assimilation.

Treatment
50 ppm Ne1
Outcome
rate of 14 CO2 assimilatione1
Direction
higheste1

Not reportedComparator

Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Brassica oleracea var. capitata
Brassica oleracea var. capitata · TaxonThamizhpparithi Maari · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

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“cabbage-head formation”

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“Plants grown at 50 ppm N had the highest sugar content and the highest rate of 14 CO2 assimilation”

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Mechanismhypothesisoriginal resultpositivebasis n/a

Claim · model-written summary

Growth at 50 ppm N explains efficient cabbage-head development through the highest sugar content.

Treatment
50 ppm Ne2
Outcome
cabbage-head developmente2
Qualifier
highest sugar contente1

Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Brassica oleracea var. capitata
Brassica oleracea var. capitata · TaxonThamizhpparithi Maari · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

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“cabbage-head formation”

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“Plants grown at 50 ppm N had the highest sugar content and the highest rate of 14 CO2 assimilation”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 406–504 · show in text ↑
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“This was why efficient cabbage-head development occurred at 50 ppm N”

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Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultnegativemeasured

Claim · model-written summary

Decreasing light intensity decreased cabbage plant dry weight and cabbage-head yield.

Treatment
light intensitye3
Outcome
plant dry weight and the cabbage-head yielde3
Direction
decreasede3

Not reportedComparator

Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Brassica oleracea var. capitata
Brassica oleracea var. capitata · TaxonThamizhpparithi Maari · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

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“cabbage-head formation”

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“As the light intensity decreased, so the plant dry weight and the cabbage-head yield decreased, resulting from a decrease in the sugar content and in the rate of 14CO2 assimilation”

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Mechanismhypothesisoriginal resultbasis n/a

Claim · model-written summary

The decrease in cabbage dry weight and head yield under low light is attributed to lower sugar content and lower 14CO2 assimilation.

Outcome
plant dry weight and the cabbage-head yielde3
Qualifier
decrease in the sugar content and in the rate of 14CO2 assimilatione3

Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Brassica oleracea var. capitata
Brassica oleracea var. capitata · TaxonThamizhpparithi Maari · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

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“cabbage-head formation”

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e3

“As the light intensity decreased, so the plant dry weight and the cabbage-head yield decreased, resulting from a decrease in the sugar content and in the rate of 14CO2 assimilation”

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Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultnegativemeasured

Claim · model-written summary

Low light intensity made the 15NO3-N uptake by cabbage smaller than high light intensity.

Treatment
a low light intensitye4
Outcome
15NO3-N uptakee4
Direction
smallere4
Comparator
high light intensitye4

Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Brassica oleracea var. capitata
Brassica oleracea var. capitata · TaxonThamizhpparithi Maari · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

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“cabbage-head formation”

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e4

“The 15NO3-N uptake by the plants was smaller at a low light intensity than at a high light intensity”

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Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultnegativemeasured

Claim · model-written summary

Low light impaired incorporation of 15N into the 80% ethanol-insoluble fraction of the cabbage head.

Treatment
low light intensitye5
Outcome
incorporation of 15N into the 80% ethanol-insoluble fraction in the cabbage-heade5
Direction
impairede5

Not reportedComparator

Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Brassica oleracea var. capitata
Brassica oleracea var. capitata · TaxonThamizhpparithi Maari · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

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“cabbage-head formation”

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e5

“in the plants at the low light intensity the incorporation of 15N into the 80% ethanol-insoluble fraction in the cabbage-head was impaired”

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Associationobservedoriginal resultmeasured

Claim · model-written summary

The later the growth stage at which 14CO2 was assimilated, the greater the 14C-retention percentage at harvest.

Treatment
growth stagee6
Outcome
14C-retention percentage at harvest timee6
Direction
greatere6

Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Brassica oleracea var. capitata
Brassica oleracea var. capitata · TaxonThamizhpparithi Maari · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

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“cabbage-head formation”

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e6

“The later the growth stage, at which 14CO2 was assimilated by the plants, the greater was the 14C-retention percentage at harvest time and the distribution of 14C into the cabbage-head”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 1004–1188 · show in text ↑
Associationobservedoriginal resultmeasured

Claim · model-written summary

The later the growth stage at which 14CO2 was assimilated, the greater the distribution of 14C into the cabbage head.

Treatment
growth stagee6
Outcome
distribution of 14C into the cabbage-heade6
Direction
greatere6

Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Brassica oleracea var. capitata
Brassica oleracea var. capitata · TaxonThamizhpparithi Maari · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

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t0

“cabbage-head formation”

✓ located verbatim in the source · title, characters 30–52 · show in text ↑
e6

“The later the growth stage, at which 14CO2 was assimilated by the plants, the greater was the 14C-retention percentage at harvest time and the distribution of 14C into the cabbage-head”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 1004–1188 · show in text ↑
Associationobservedoriginal resultmeasured

Claim · model-written summary

The 14C-retention percentage decreased with increased nitrogen supply or decreased light intensity in cabbage.

Treatment
increase in the nitrogen supply or decrease in the light intensitye7
Outcome
14C-retention percentagee7
Direction
decreasede7

Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Brassica oleracea var. capitata
Brassica oleracea var. capitata · TaxonThamizhpparithi Maari · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

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“cabbage-head formation”

✓ located verbatim in the source · title, characters 30–52 · show in text ↑
e7

“The 14C-retention percentage decreased with increase in the nitrogen supply or decrease in the light intensity”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 1190–1300 · show in text ↑

light · nutrient: content · Brassica oleracea (wild cabbage)Positive and negative results

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light · yield · Brassica oleracea (wild cabbage)Positive and negative results

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nitrogen · growth · Brassica oleracea (wild cabbage)Positive and negative results

103 papers: 90 positive, 13 negative or no effect

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