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Biostimulants Enhance the Nutritional Quality of Soilless Greenhouse Tomatoes

Dasgan HY, Aksu KS, Zikaria K, Gruda NS

Plants · 2024

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Summary

The application of biostimulants in vegetable cultivation has emerged as a promising approach to enhance the nutritional quality of crops, particularly in controlled environment agriculture and soilless culture systems. In this study, we employed a rigorous methodology, applying various biostimulants amino acids, Plant Growth-Promoting Rhizobacteria (PGPR), fulvic acid, chitosan, and vermicompost along with mineral fertilizers, both foliar and via the roots, to soilless greenhouse tomatoes during spring cultivation. The experiment, conducted in a coir pith medium using the ‘Samyeli F1’ tomato cultivar, demonstrated that plants treated with biostimulants performed better than control plants. Notable variations in nutritional components were observed across treatments. PGPR had the best effe

Source type
Peer-reviewed study
DOI
10.3390/plants13182587
Catalogue ID
BImvhafnnq-3zeslg
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