Claim · model-written summary
Higher salinity did not change the number of fruits produced.
- Taxon
- tomatoes
Solanum lycopersicumt0 - Treatment
- salinity increasese0
- Outcome
- number of fruits producede0
- Direction
- does not changee0
Not reportedComparator
Verbatim
e0“When salinity increases, the number of fruits produced does not change but their average weight and size decrease significantly.”
t0“tomatoes”
Title
Robert Fabre; Muriel Duval; Benoît Jeannequin Cahiers Agricultures 2011. doi:10.1684/agr.2011.0496
Other claims from this paper (7)
- Intervention effect High salinity significantly increased tomato total soluble solids across seasons and hybrids.
- Intervention effect High salinity significantly increased titrable acidity except for the short shelf-life hybrid in spring.
- Intervention effect Increasing salinity affected tomato firmness little.
- Association Variety significantly affected tomato firmness.
- Intervention effect Consumers preferred fruit grown at high salinity for both hybrids.
- Intervention effect Higher salinity significantly decreased average fruit weight and size.
- Intervention effect The salinity management reduced tomato yield by about 20%.