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Record W4417253936 · doi:10.1139/cjps-2025-0064

Effects of vermicompost and hot compost integration on carrot ( <i>Daucus carota</i> L.) growth and yield

2025· article· en· W4417253936 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Gibson Kwenda, Christopher Kalima Phiri, Nicholas Alimoso, Lerisha Nthala

Bibliographic record

VenueCanadian Journal of Plant Science · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldAgricultural and Biological Sciences
TopicComposting and Vermicomposting Techniques
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsVermicompostCompostRandomized block designField experimentSweetnessShootYield (engineering)Manure

Abstract

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Organic fertilisation offers sustainable alternatives to chemical fertilisers. Therefore, the effects of two composts (vermicompost and hot compost) and a commercial NPK fertiliser (23:10:5:6S + 1.0 Zn) on the growth and yield of carrots under field conditions were evaluated. Vermicompost and hot compost were applied as single and combined treatments in a randomised complete block design (RCBD) replicated three times. Data were subjected to Analysis of variance (ANOVA) and repeated measures ANOVA in RCBD depending on the structure. The combined application of vermicompost and hot compost significantly improved shoot height ( p = 0.027) and carrot root weight ( p = 0.039). No considerable interaction effects between treatments and time on canopy coverage (%) ( p = 0.237) and number of leaves per plant ( p = 0.071) were observed. Although vermicompost (1.68 kg m −2 ) and combined composts (1.53 kg m −2 ) produced numerically higher root yields than NPK fertiliser (1.15 kg m −2 ), the differences were not statistically significant ( p = 0.206). Interestingly, sensory evaluation results revealed that single-vermicompost treatments and combined compost applications improved carrot tuber root flavour ( p = 0.015), tuber root texture ( p = 0.023), and tuber root water content ( p = 0.023), but not tuber root sweetness ( p = 0.717). Vermicompost and hot compost, whether applied individually or in combination, provide a sustainable alternative to chemical fertilisers by improving soil fertility and enhancing carrot growth, yield, and quality.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.543
Threshold uncertainty score0.996

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.009
GPT teacher head0.200
Teacher spread0.190 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designBench or experimental
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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