Abstract
In Egypt, a considerable amount of crop residues and industrial products, including peanut shells (PN), rice hulls (RH) and sawdust (SD) are available without being used as alternative substrates to the costly, imported media viz, peat moss (P) and coconut coir (Coc) in soilless culture. With the high value and increasing demand of cherry tomato fruits for export, this study was conducted to examine the growth and yield potential of cherry tomato plants in eight different substrate mixtures: P+RH, P+SD, P+ Vermiculite (V), Coc+RH, Coc+V, PN+RH, PN+V, PN+Coc and a control (sand+compost). Plants were grown in 4L pots from Oct, 2016 to May, 2017 in unheated greenhouse, fertigated via spaghetti tubes, trellised and pruned to one main stem. Results showed that plants on Coc+V or P+V had the highest stem length, while those on Coc+RH and PN+Coc had the highest leaf area. Plants on PN+Coc had also the highest shoot/ root ratio. Fruit yield, number and mean fruit weight were the highest on PN+V or PN+Coc. Fruit harvested from plants on RH-amended media had the highest TSS and EC, while fruit vitamin C content was not affected by medium type. The results suggest that PN and RH mixed with Coc are suitable substrates for soilless culture of cherry tomato
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Claims 7
Claim · model-written summary
Cherry tomato plants on Coc+V or P+V had the highest stem length.
- Taxon
- Cherry Tomato
Solanum lycopersicum var. cerasiformet0 - Treatment
- Coc+V or P+Ve0
- Outcome
- stem lengthe0
- Direction
- higheste0
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Verbatim
e0“plants on Coc+V or P+V had the highest stem length”
t0“Cherry Tomato”
Claim · model-written summary
Cherry tomato plants on Coc+RH and PN+Coc had the highest leaf area.
- Taxon
- Cherry TomatoSolanum lycopersicum var. cerasiformet0
- Treatment
- Coc+RH and PN+Coce0
- Outcome
- leaf areae0
- Direction
- higheste0
Not reportedComparator
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Verbatim
e0“those on Coc+RH and PN+Coc had the highest leaf area”
t0“Cherry Tomato”
Claim · model-written summary
Cherry tomato plants on PN+Coc had the highest shoot/root ratio.
- Taxon
- Cherry TomatoSolanum lycopersicum var. cerasiformet0
- Treatment
- PN+Coce0
- Outcome
- shoot/ root ratioe0
- Direction
- higheste0
Not reportedComparator
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Verbatim
e0“Plants on PN+Coc had also the highest shoot/ root ratio”
t0“Cherry Tomato”
Claim · model-written summary
Fruit yield, fruit number and mean fruit weight were highest on PN+V or PN+Coc.
- Taxon
- Cherry TomatoSolanum lycopersicum var. cerasiformet0
- Treatment
- PN+V or PN+Coce0
- Outcome
- Fruit yield, number and mean fruit weighte0
- Direction
- higheste0
Not reportedComparator
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Verbatim
e0“Fruit yield, number and mean fruit weight were the highest on PN+V or PN+Coc”
t0“Cherry Tomato”
Claim · model-written summary
Fruit from plants on RH-amended media had the highest TSS and EC.
- Taxon
- Cherry TomatoSolanum lycopersicum var. cerasiformet0
- Treatment
- RH-amended mediae0
- Outcome
- TSS and ECe0
- Direction
- higheste0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Fruit harvested from plants on RH-amended media had the highest TSS and EC”
t0“Cherry Tomato”
Claim · model-written summary
Fruit vitamin C content was not affected by substrate (medium) type.
- Taxon
- Cherry TomatoSolanum lycopersicum var. cerasiformet0
- Treatment
- medium typee0
- Outcome
- fruit vitamin C contente0
- Direction
- not affectede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“fruit vitamin C content was not affected by medium type”
t0“Cherry Tomato”
Claim · model-written summary
The authors conclude that PN and RH mixed with Coc are suitable substrates for soilless culture of cherry tomato.
- Taxon
- cherry tomatoSolanum lycopersicum var. cerasiformee0
- Outcome
- suitable substrates for soilless culturee0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“PN and RH mixed with Coc are suitable substrates for soilless culture of cherry tomato”
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