Claim · model-written summary
Two applications produced grain zinc concentrations of 44.3 and 52.4 mg kg −1 in Years 2 and 3.
- Taxon
- bread wheat
Triticum aestivumt0 - Treatment
- application of Zn at both heading and floweringe0
- Outcome
- grain Zn concentratione0
- Direction
- increasee0
- Value
- 44.3 and 52.4 mg kg −1e0
- Qualifier
- 35–93%e0
- Comparator
- untreated controle0
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Verbatim
e0“With the application of Zn at both heading and flowering, grain Zn concentration reached 44.3 and 52.4 mg kg −1 (in Years 2 and 3), implying an increase of 35–93% compared to the untreated control.”
t0“bread wheat”
Title
Agronomic and economic response of bread wheat to foliar zinc application
Reza Keshavarz Afshar; Chengci Chen; Shuang Zhou; et al. Agronomy Journal 2020. doi:10.1002/agj2.20247
Other claims from this paper (7)
- Intervention effect One heading application increased grain zinc by 5.8 to 9.5 mg kg −1, or 17–47%, over control.
- Recommendation The second flowering application was necessary to exceed 40 mg kg −1 grain zinc.
- Intervention effect Zinc application marginally increased grain yield.
- Observation The yield increase did not offset additional zinc fertilization costs.
- Observation The net return from the first zinc application was −1 USD ha −1.
- Observation The net return from the second zinc application was +13 USD ha −1.
- Recommendation Adoption is unlikely without a price incentive or government payments.