Claim · model-written summary
Moderate selenium doses enhanced sweet maize soluble sugars, amylose and protein.
- Taxon
- sweet maizet0
- Treatment
- foliar Se fertilizationt1
- Outcome
- soluble sugars, amylose, proteine0
- Direction
- enhancede0
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Verbatim
e0“enhanced levels of soluble sugars, amylose, protein”
t1“foliar Se fertilization”
t0“sweet maize”
Title
Emmanuel Osei Asamoah; Solomon Musoke Ssemalawa; Ofori Prince Danso; et al. Frontiers in Plant Science 2025. doi:10.3389/fpls.2025.1733890
Other claims from this paper (14)
- Intervention effect Moderate selenium doses enhanced sweet maize chlorophyll retention and photosynthetic efficiency.
- Intervention effect Moderate selenium doses increased SOD, POD and CAT activity in sweet maize.
- Intervention effect Moderate selenium doses reduced sweet maize malondialdehyde by 22.8%.
- Intervention effect Moderate selenium doses increased assimilate accumulation in sweet maize.
- Intervention effect Moderate selenium doses increased fresh cob yield by 2–7%.
- Intervention effect Moderate selenium doses enhanced sweet maize vitamin C and magnesium.
- Intervention effect Moderate selenium doses enhanced sweet maize iron, copper and manganese.
- Intervention effect Excessive selenium at 60 g ha−1 caused oxidative imbalance in sweet maize.
- Intervention effect Excessive selenium decreased enzyme activity and yield in sweet maize.
- Intervention effect Excessive selenium reduced sweet maize yield.
- Association Kernel selenium concentration increased significantly with selenium supply.
- Observation Selenomethionine accounted for 82.3% of total kernel selenium.
- Observation Kernel selenium had 35.6% gastric bioaccessibility in vitro.
- Observation Kernel selenium had 76.0% intestinal bioaccessibility in vitro.