Abstract
To evaluate the effect of partial root zone drying in combination with compost tea on growth, morpho-physiological traits, yield and quality attributes of tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill), a greenhouse experiment was conducted. The ultimate aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of partial root zone drying (PRD) and conventional drip irrigation (CDI) incorporated with compost tea (CT) on tomato productivity and quality. The results of this study indicated positive and significant effect of CT in combination with PRD on fruit size, fruit weight, fruit firmness, cluster per plant, fruit per cluster, fruit lycopene content, pH, TSS and TSS/TA. The PRD treated plant’s fruits exhibited better appearance, higher lycopene content, fruit firmness, total soluble solid (TSS), and TSS/titratable acidity (TA) ratio than fruits plants treated with CDI (conventional drip irrigation). Combined treatment with CDI and CT had positive effect on plant height, leaf area, chlorophyll and water content in fruits. But they exhibited the negative effect on fruits blossom end rot, weight loss, chilling injury, and TA content. The results of this study indicated that CT improve more significantly tomato yield and quality under PRD than CDI. Combining PRD and CT led to the maximization of crop water productivity.
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Claims 20
Claim · model-written summary
CT with PRD significantly improved fruit size in tomato.
- Taxon
- tomato
Solanum lycopersicumt0 - Treatment
- CT in combination with PRDe0
- Outcome
- fruit sizee0
- Direction
- positivee0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The results of this study indicated positive and significant effect of CT in combination with PRD on fruit size, fruit weight, fruit firmness, cluster per plant, fruit per cluster, fruit lycopene content, pH, TSS and TSS/TA.”
t0“tomato”
Claim · model-written summary
CT with PRD significantly improved fruit weight in tomato.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Treatment
- CT in combination with PRDe0
- Outcome
- fruit weighte0
- Direction
- positivee0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The results of this study indicated positive and significant effect of CT in combination with PRD on fruit size, fruit weight, fruit firmness, cluster per plant, fruit per cluster, fruit lycopene content, pH, TSS and TSS/TA.”
t0“tomato”
Claim · model-written summary
CT with PRD significantly improved fruit firmness in tomato.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Treatment
- CT in combination with PRDe0
- Outcome
- fruit firmnesse0
- Direction
- positivee0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The results of this study indicated positive and significant effect of CT in combination with PRD on fruit size, fruit weight, fruit firmness, cluster per plant, fruit per cluster, fruit lycopene content, pH, TSS and TSS/TA.”
t0“tomato”
Claim · model-written summary
CT with PRD significantly improved cluster per plant in tomato.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Treatment
- CT in combination with PRDe0
- Outcome
- cluster per plante0
- Direction
- positivee0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The results of this study indicated positive and significant effect of CT in combination with PRD on fruit size, fruit weight, fruit firmness, cluster per plant, fruit per cluster, fruit lycopene content, pH, TSS and TSS/TA.”
t0“tomato”
Claim · model-written summary
CT with PRD significantly improved fruit per cluster in tomato.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Treatment
- CT in combination with PRDe0
- Outcome
- fruit per clustere0
- Direction
- positivee0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The results of this study indicated positive and significant effect of CT in combination with PRD on fruit size, fruit weight, fruit firmness, cluster per plant, fruit per cluster, fruit lycopene content, pH, TSS and TSS/TA.”
t0“tomato”
Claim · model-written summary
CT with PRD significantly improved fruit lycopene content in tomato.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Treatment
- CT in combination with PRDe0
- Outcome
- fruit lycopene contente0
- Direction
- positivee0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The results of this study indicated positive and significant effect of CT in combination with PRD on fruit size, fruit weight, fruit firmness, cluster per plant, fruit per cluster, fruit lycopene content, pH, TSS and TSS/TA.”
t0“tomato”
Claim · model-written summary
CT with PRD significantly improved pH in tomato.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Treatment
- CT in combination with PRDe0
- Outcome
- pHe0
- Direction
- positivee0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The results of this study indicated positive and significant effect of CT in combination with PRD on fruit size, fruit weight, fruit firmness, cluster per plant, fruit per cluster, fruit lycopene content, pH, TSS and TSS/TA.”
t0“tomato”
Claim · model-written summary
CT with PRD significantly improved TSS in tomato.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Treatment
- CT in combination with PRDe0
- Outcome
- TSSe0
- Direction
- positivee0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The results of this study indicated positive and significant effect of CT in combination with PRD on fruit size, fruit weight, fruit firmness, cluster per plant, fruit per cluster, fruit lycopene content, pH, TSS and TSS/TA.”
t0“tomato”
Claim · model-written summary
CT with PRD significantly improved TSS/TA in tomato.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Treatment
- CT in combination with PRDe0
- Outcome
- TSS/TAe0
- Direction
- positivee0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The results of this study indicated positive and significant effect of CT in combination with PRD on fruit size, fruit weight, fruit firmness, cluster per plant, fruit per cluster, fruit lycopene content, pH, TSS and TSS/TA.”
t0“tomato”
Claim · model-written summary
PRD fruit had better appearance than CDI fruit.
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The PRD treated plant’s fruits exhibited better appearance, higher lycopene content, fruit firmness, total soluble solid (TSS), and TSS/titratable acidity (TA) ratio than fruits plants treated with CDI (conventional drip irrigation).”
t0“tomato”
Claim · model-written summary
PRD fruit had better lycopene content than CDI fruit.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Treatment
- PRDe0
- Outcome
- lycopene contente0
- Direction
- highere0
- Comparator
- CDIe0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The PRD treated plant’s fruits exhibited better appearance, higher lycopene content, fruit firmness, total soluble solid (TSS), and TSS/titratable acidity (TA) ratio than fruits plants treated with CDI (conventional drip irrigation).”
t0“tomato”
Claim · model-written summary
PRD fruit had better fruit firmness than CDI fruit.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Treatment
- PRDe0
- Outcome
- fruit firmnesse0
- Comparator
- CDIe0
Not reportedDirection
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The PRD treated plant’s fruits exhibited better appearance, higher lycopene content, fruit firmness, total soluble solid (TSS), and TSS/titratable acidity (TA) ratio than fruits plants treated with CDI (conventional drip irrigation).”
t0“tomato”
Claim · model-written summary
PRD fruit had better total soluble solid (TSS) than CDI fruit.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Treatment
- PRDe0
- Outcome
- total soluble solid (TSS)e0
- Comparator
- CDIe0
Not reportedDirection
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The PRD treated plant’s fruits exhibited better appearance, higher lycopene content, fruit firmness, total soluble solid (TSS), and TSS/titratable acidity (TA) ratio than fruits plants treated with CDI (conventional drip irrigation).”
t0“tomato”
Claim · model-written summary
PRD fruit had better TSS/titratable acidity (TA) ratio than CDI fruit.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Treatment
- PRDe0
- Outcome
- TSS/titratable acidity (TA) ratioe0
- Comparator
- CDIe0
Not reportedDirection
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The PRD treated plant’s fruits exhibited better appearance, higher lycopene content, fruit firmness, total soluble solid (TSS), and TSS/titratable acidity (TA) ratio than fruits plants treated with CDI (conventional drip irrigation).”
t0“tomato”
Claim · model-written summary
CDI with CT improved plant height and leaf area.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Treatment
- CDI and CTe0
- Outcome
- plant height, leaf areae0
- Direction
- positivee0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Combined treatment with CDI and CT had positive effect on plant height, leaf area, chlorophyll and water content in fruits.”
t0“tomato”
Claim · model-written summary
CDI with CT improved chlorophyll and fruit water content.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Treatment
- CDI and CTe0
- Outcome
- chlorophyll and water content in fruitse0
- Direction
- positivee0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Combined treatment with CDI and CT had positive effect on plant height, leaf area, chlorophyll and water content in fruits.”
t0“tomato”
Claim · model-written summary
CDI with CT reduced blossom end rot, weight loss and chilling injury.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Treatment
- CDI and CTe1
- Outcome
- fruits blossom end rot, weight loss, chilling injurye0
- Direction
- negativee0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“But they exhibited the negative effect on fruits blossom end rot, weight loss, chilling injury, and TA content.”
e1“Combined treatment with CDI and CT”
t0“tomato”
Claim · model-written summary
CDI with CT reduced TA content.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Treatment
- CDI and CTe1
- Outcome
- TA contente0
- Direction
- negativee0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“But they exhibited the negative effect on fruits blossom end rot, weight loss, chilling injury, and TA content.”
e1“Combined treatment with CDI and CT”
t0“tomato”
Claim · model-written summary
CT improved tomato yield and quality more under PRD than CDI.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicume0
- Treatment
- CTe0
- Outcome
- tomato yield and qualitye0
- Direction
- moree0
- Qualifier
- under PRDe0
- Comparator
- CDIe0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The results of this study indicated that CT improve more significantly tomato yield and quality under PRD than CDI.”
Claim · model-written summary
PRD with CT maximized crop water productivity.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Treatment
- PRD and CTe0
- Outcome
- crop water productivitye0
- Direction
- maximizatione0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Combining PRD and CT led to the maximization of crop water productivity.”
t0“tomato”
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