Claim · model-written summary
Combined soil and foliar zinc gave better grain protein content of 10.1% than other treatments.
- Taxon
- Wheat
Triticum aestivumt0 - Treatment
- zinc was applied both in the soil before planting and by foliar application on later growth stagese1
- Outcome
- grain protein contentse0
- Direction
- bettere1
- Value
- 10.1%e0
- Comparator
- all other treatmentse1
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Verbatim
e0“grain protein contents (10.1%)”
e1“zinc was applied both in the soil before planting and by foliar application on later growth stages, which is better than all other treatments”
t0“Wheat”
Title
Usman Afzal; Muhammad Shahid Ibni Zamir; Shan Mohi Ud Din; et al. American Journal of Plant Sciences 2017. doi:10.4236/ajps.2017.813236
Other claims from this paper (19)
- Intervention effect Combined soil and foliar zinc application gave the maximum wheat plant height at maturity, 103.6 cm.
- Intervention effect Combined soil and foliar zinc gave the maximum wheat tiller count, 564.67 m-2.
- Intervention effect Combined soil and foliar zinc gave maximum wheat spike length of 10.83 cm.
- Intervention effect Combined soil and foliar zinc gave the maximum 19.50 spikelets per spike.
- Intervention effect Combined soil and foliar zinc gave the maximum 50.36 grains per spike.
- Intervention effect Combined soil and foliar zinc gave maximum 1000-grain weight of 34.16 g.
- Intervention effect Combined soil and foliar zinc gave maximum biological yield of 11.93 t·ha-1.
- Intervention effect Combined soil and foliar zinc gave maximum grain yield of 6.00 t·ha-1.
- Intervention effect Combined soil and foliar zinc gave maximum harvest index of 39.25%.
- Intervention effect Combined soil and foliar zinc gave better grain zinc content of 33.11 mg·kg-1 than other treatments.
- Intervention effect Combined soil and foliar zinc gave better grain carbohydrate content of 64.23% than other treatments.
- Observation Faisalabad-2008 exceeded Punjab-2011 in tiller number, reaching 460.67 m-2.
- Observation Faisalabad-2008 exceeded Punjab-2011 in spike length, reaching 9.70 cm.
- Observation Faisalabad-2008 exceeded Punjab-2011 in grains per spike, reaching 48.80.
- Observation Faisalabad-2008 exceeded Punjab-2011 in 1000-grain weight, reaching 33.81 g.
- Observation Faisalabad-2008 exceeded Punjab-2011 in biological yield, reaching 10.32 t·ha-1.
- Observation Faisalabad-2008 exceeded Punjab-2011 in grain yield, reaching 5.0 t·ha-1.
- Observation Faisalabad-2008 exceeded Punjab-2011 in harvest index, reaching 33.93%.
- Recommendation The authors recommend Faisalabad-2008 with soil zinc before planting and later foliar zinc for better wheat yield.