Abstract
Onion (Allium cepa L) yield and postharvest shelf-life have not been meeting their potentials even when recommended amounts of mineral fertilizers are applied during production. Biostimulants have been proposed as alternatives to mineral fertilizers to improve crop production within sustainable agriculture systems. The objective of this study was to assess the effects of the commercially available biostimulants Humic Total, Amino Total, Seamino Pro, CaBoron, and Elga 600 on yield, bulb quality, and storage ability of onion, cv. Giza 20, during the cropping seasons in 2014 and 2015. The biostimulants significantly increased total yield and bulb weight and decreased cull yield compared to the control. The best treatments were Humic Total, Amino Total, and CaBoron. Control plants had bulb total soluble solids and firmness that were not different from other treatments. The lowest decay rates were from plants receiving Amino Total and CaBoron and the control had the highest bulb weight loss. Onion growth, yield, quality, and storage ability may be improved with application of biostimulants.
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Claim · model-written summary
Biostimulants significantly increased onion total yield relative to control.
- Taxon
- Onion
Allium cepat0 - Treatment
- biostimulantse0
- Outcome
- total yielde0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Comparator
- controle0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The biostimulants significantly increased total yield and bulb weight and decreased cull yield compared to the control.”
t0“Onion Bulbs”
Claim · model-written summary
Biostimulants significantly increased onion bulb weight relative to control.
- Taxon
- OnionAllium cepat0
- Treatment
- biostimulantse0
- Outcome
- bulb weighte0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Comparator
- controle0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The biostimulants significantly increased total yield and bulb weight and decreased cull yield compared to the control.”
t0“Onion Bulbs”
Claim · model-written summary
Biostimulants significantly decreased onion cull yield relative to control.
- Taxon
- OnionAllium cepat0
- Treatment
- biostimulantse0
- Outcome
- cull yielde0
- Direction
- decreasede0
- Comparator
- controle0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The biostimulants significantly increased total yield and bulb weight and decreased cull yield compared to the control.”
t0“Onion Bulbs”
Claim · model-written summary
Humic Total was among the best biostimulant treatments.
- Taxon
- OnionAllium cepat0
- Treatment
- Humic Totale0
- Outcome
- best treatmentse0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The best treatments were Humic Total, Amino Total, and CaBoron.”
t0“Onion Bulbs”
Claim · model-written summary
Amino Total was among the best biostimulant treatments.
- Taxon
- OnionAllium cepat0
- Treatment
- Amino Totale0
- Outcome
- best treatmentse0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The best treatments were Humic Total, Amino Total, and CaBoron.”
t0“Onion Bulbs”
Claim · model-written summary
CaBoron was among the best biostimulant treatments.
- Taxon
- OnionAllium cepat0
- Treatment
- CaBorone0
- Outcome
- best treatmentse0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The best treatments were Humic Total, Amino Total, and CaBoron.”
t0“Onion Bulbs”
Claim · model-written summary
Control and treated onions did not differ in bulb total soluble solids and firmness.
- Taxon
- OnionAllium cepat0
- Treatment
- other treatmentse0
- Outcome
- bulb total soluble solids and firmnesse0
- Direction
- not differente0
- Comparator
- Control plantse0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Control plants had bulb total soluble solids and firmness that were not different from other treatments.”
t0“Onion Bulbs”
Claim · model-written summary
Amino Total was associated with the lowest onion decay rates.
- Taxon
- OnionAllium cepat0
- Treatment
- Amino Totale0
- Outcome
- decay ratese0
- Direction
- loweste0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The lowest decay rates were from plants receiving Amino Total and CaBoron”
t0“Onion Bulbs”
Claim · model-written summary
CaBoron was associated with the lowest onion decay rates.
- Taxon
- OnionAllium cepat0
- Treatment
- CaBorone0
- Outcome
- decay ratese0
- Direction
- loweste0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The lowest decay rates were from plants receiving Amino Total and CaBoron”
t0“Onion Bulbs”
Claim · model-written summary
Control onions had the highest bulb weight loss.
- Taxon
- OnionAllium cepat0
- Treatment
- controle0
- Outcome
- bulb weight losse0
- Direction
- higheste0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“the control had the highest bulb weight loss”
t0“Onion Bulbs”
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