Claim · model-written summary
Under B-deficient conditions, foliar B application increased the vegetative and reproductive dry mass of sunflower plants.
- Taxon
- Sunflower
Helianthus annuust0 - Treatment
- B foliar applicatione1
- Outcome
- vegetative and reproductive dry masse1
- Direction
- increasede1
- Qualifier
- Under B-deficient conditionse1
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Verbatim
t0“Sunflower”
e1“Under B-deficient conditions, B foliar application increased the vegetative and reproductive dry mass of plants”
Title
Effects of Boron Foliar Applications on Vegetative and Reproductive Growth of Sunflower
A. ASAD Annals of Botany 2003. doi:10.1093/aob/mcg179
Other claims from this paper (9)
- Intervention effect The highest rate of foliar B fertilization caused leaf burn in sunflower.
- Intervention effect The highest rate of foliar B fertilization had no other evident detrimental effect on sunflower plant growth.
- Intervention effect Foliar application of 28-1200 mm B increased the total dry mass of the most B-deficient sunflower plants by more than three-fold.
- Intervention effect Foliar application of 28-1200 mm B increased the total dry mass of plants grown initially with 1.72 micro m B in solution by 37-49 %.
- Intervention effect In plants grown initially with 1.72 micro m B, the capitulum dry mass after foliar B treatment was similar to that under control conditions.
- Intervention effect In no foliar B treatment was total plant dry mass similar to that of the control.
- Intervention effect All foliar B spray rates increased the B concentration in various parts of the plant tops, including parts that developed after spraying.
- Intervention effect The B concentration in sunflower roots was not increased by foliar B application.
- Intervention effect The B concentration in the capitulum of plants sprayed at the highest rate was between 37 and 93 % of that in control plants.