Claim · model-written summary
High silicon increased leaf chlorophyll, RuBPcarboxylase activity and soluble protein.
- Taxon
- Cucumber Plants
Cucumis sativust0 - Treatment
- Silicont0
- Outcome
- chlorophyll content, RuBPcarboxylase activity and soluble proteine0
- Direction
- increasede0
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Verbatim
e0“an increased fresh weight per unit area, dry weight per unit area, chlorophyll content, RuBPcarboxylase activity and soluble protein”
t0“Silicon on Cucumber Plants”
Title
The Effects of Silicon on Cucumber Plants Grown in Recirculating Nutrient Solution
M. H. ADATIA; R. T. BESFORD Annals of Botany 1986. doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.aob.a087212
Other claims from this paper (8)
- Observation Silicate depleted from solution with cucumbers but accumulated with tomatoes.
- Intervention effect Added silicon increased mature cucumber leaf rigidity and roughness.
- Intervention effect Added silicon delayed cucumber leaf senescence.
- Intervention effect High-silicon leaves had shorter petioles.
- Intervention effect High silicon increased leaf fresh and dry weight per unit area.
- Intervention effect Silicon did not affect final mature leaf area.
- Intervention effect Silicon increased root fresh and dry weights.
- Intervention effect Silicon increased cucumber resistance to powdery mildew.