Table 1.
Chemical composition of seaweed extracts evaluated in tomato production.
Fig 1.
Effects of seaweed extract (10 and 20%), silicon (Si, 25 and 75 mg L-1), and selenium (Se, 4 and 10 mg L-1) on fruit firmness in tomato plants.
Fig 2.
Effects of seaweed extract (10 and 20%), silicon (Si, 25 and 75 mg L-1), and selenium (Se, 4 and 10 mg L-1) on total carbohydrate content in tomato.
Table 2.
Analysis of variance for the measured characters.
Fig 3.
Effects of seaweed extract (10 and 20%), silicon (Si, 25 and 75 mg L-1), and selenium (Se, 4 and 10 mg L-1) on total soluble solids in tomato plants.
Fig 4.
Interaction effects of the foliar spray (seaweed extract (10 and 20%), silicon (Si, 25 and 75 mg L-1), and selenium (Se, 4 and 10 mg L-1)) with the two substrates on total soluble solids in tomato.
Fig 5.
Effects of seaweed extract (10 and 20%), silicon (Si, 25 and 75 mg L-1), and selenium (Se, 4 and 10 mg L-1) on total titratable acidity (a) and pH of tomato juice (b).
Fig 6.
Effects of seaweed extract (10 and 20%), silicon (Si, 25 and 75 mg L-1), and selenium (Se, 4 and 10 mg L-1) and effects of two different substrates on flavour index (TSS/TA).
Fig 7.
Effect of palm peat + perlite and coco peat + perlite substrates on vitamin C content.
Fig 8.
Effects of seaweed extract (10 and 20%), silicon (Si, 25 and 75 mg L-1), and selenium (Se, 4 and 10 mg L-1) on fruit volume (a) and yield per plant (b).
Table 3.
Interaction effects of the foliar spray with the two substrates on different characters in tomato.