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Table 4 Cucumber plant yield and some quality traits of fruit under different treatments

From: Glycine mitigates fertilizer requirements of agricultural crops: case study with cucumber as a high fertilizer demanding crop

Treatments

Number of fruits/plant

Total plant yield (kg)

Fruit firmness (kg/cm2)

Fruit vitamin C (mg/100 g FW)

Fruit TSS (%)

Control

32 ± 7d

2.6 ± 0.08e

12.3 ± 1.0bc

3.5 ± 0.5c

7.0 ± 0.3a

NPK fertilizer

70 ± 11ab

4.9 ± 0.61ab

15.6 ± 1.5a

5.9 ± 1.1a

7.6 ± 0.4a

Soil-glycine (250 mg/plant)

64 ± 9ab

4.6 ± 0.59ab

14.1 ± 1.3abc

5.3 ± 0.9ab

7.3 ± 0.5a

Soil-glycine (500 mg/plant)

74 ± 10a

5.3 ± 0.53a

15.1 ± 1.1a

6.0 ± 1.0a

7.2 ± 0.3a

Foliar-glycine (250 ppm)

45 ± 7 cd

3.5 ± 0.45cd

13.6 ± 1.4abc

4.2 ± 0.8bc

7.2 ± 0.4a

Foliar-glycine (500 ppm)

58 ± 8bc

4.2 ± 0.60bc

14.2 ± 2.1abc

5.8 ± 0.9a

7.3 ± 0.6a

Foliar-glycine (1000 ppm)

41 ± 72d

3.0 ± 0.51de

12.0 ± 1.4c

4.3 ± 0.7bc

7.1 ± 0.3a

ANOVA*

P-value = 0.01

P-value = 0.01

P-value = 0.05

P-value = 0.01

P-value = ns

  1. Data are average of four replications ± SD, and in each column means with similar letter are not significantly different at 5% level of LSD test
  2. *P-value levels of 0.01, 0.05 and ns mean significant effect at 1%, 5% and no significant effect, respectively