Claim · model-written summary
Foliar N-SiO2 at 400 ppm increased SPAD chlorophyll meter reading, photosynthetic rate and water use efficiency of groundnut over control.
- Taxon
- groundnut
Arachis hypogaeae2 - Treatment
- N-SiO 2 foliar application at 400 ppme1
- Outcome
- SPAD chlorophyll meter reading, photosynthetic rate, water use efficiencye1
- Direction
- increasede1
- Comparator
- controle1
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Verbatim
e1“The plant height, number of branches, total dry weight, SPAD chlorophyll meter reading, photosynthetic rate, water use efficiency, number of nodules, and ascorbic acid content were increased significantly with the N-SiO 2 foliar application at 400 ppm over control”
e2“on the growth and yield of groundnut”
Title
T. N. V. K. V. Prasad; M. Swethasree; G. C. Satisha; et al. Environmental Science & Technology 2023. doi:10.1021/acs.est.3c00327
Other claims from this paper (9)
- Intervention effect Foliar N-SiO2 at 400 ppm increased plant height, number of branches and total dry weight of groundnut over control.
- Intervention effect Foliar N-SiO2 at 400 ppm increased nodule number and ascorbic acid content of groundnut over control.
- Intervention effect Foliar N-SiO2 at 400 ppm increased the number of filled pods of groundnut by 38.78% over TEOS.
- Intervention effect Foliar N-SiO2 at 400 ppm increased the number of filled pods of groundnut by 58.60% over control.
- Intervention effect Foliar N-SiO2 at 400 ppm increased pod yield per plant of groundnut by 25.52% over TEOS.
- Intervention effect Foliar N-SiO2 at 400 ppm increased pod yield per plant of groundnut by 31.7% over control.
- Intervention effect N-SiO2 at 200 and 400 ppm significantly enhanced antioxidant enzyme activities of groundnut over control.
- Observation Fluorescein isothiocyanate-labelled N-SiO2 entered groundnut through stomata and was transported to vascular bundles via apoplastic movement.
- Observation The synthesized N-SiO2 had a size of 28.7 nm and a zeta potential of 32 mV.