Claim · model-written summary
Lime and organic matter decreased cadmium availability to soil and spinach throughout growth.
- Taxon
- Spinach
Spinacia oleraceat0 - Treatment
- lime (50% and 100% lime requirement) and organic matter (0.5 and 1% by weight of soil)e0
- Outcome
- availability of Cd to the soil and plante0
- Direction
- decreasede0
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Verbatim
t0“Spinach”
e0“Application of lime (50% and 100% lime requirement) and organic matter (0.5 and 1% by weight of soil) to soil decreased the availability of Cd to the soil and plant throughout the crop growth.”
Title
T. K. Pandit; S. K. Naik; P. K. Patra; et al. Soil and Sediment Contamination An International Journal 2012. doi:10.1080/15320383.2012.672487
Other claims from this paper (8)
- Observation The untreated soil had the highest extractable Cd at 20 days after sowing.
- Observation Untreated spinach roots had the highest Cd concentration, 19.80 mg kg−1, at 20 days.
- Observation Untreated spinach shoots had the highest Cd concentration, 17.0 mg kg−1, at 20 days.
- Intervention effect OM1 L100 decreased spinach root Cd by 63.23% after 60 days.
- Intervention effect OM1 L100 decreased spinach shoot Cd by 71.88% after 60 days.
- Intervention effect OM1 L100 yielded the lowest postharvest soil Cd, 2.88 mg kg−1, a 65.75% decrease over control.
- Intervention effect OM1 L100 yielded the lowest postharvest plant Cd, 4.27 mg kg−1, a 71.55% decrease over control.
- Observation OM1 L100 gave the highest leaf chlorophyll content, 2.19 mg kg−1 fresh weight, at 40 days.