Claim · model-written summary
Foliar Si improved tomato plant growth.
- Taxon
- Tomato
Solanum lycopersicumt0 - Treatment
- Sie0
- Outcome
- plant growthe0
- Direction
- improvede0
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Verbatim
e0“improved plant growth by application of Si and Se”
t0“Tomato”
Title
Wanxing Hu; Yan Su; Rui Yang; et al. Horticulturae 2023. doi:10.3390/horticulturae9101126
Other claims from this paper (12)
- Intervention effect Foliar Se improved tomato plant growth.
- Intervention effect Combined Si and Se gave a more obvious plant growth response.
- Intervention effect Si alone increased tomato yield.
- Intervention effect Si combined with Se increased tomato yield.
- Intervention effect Se increased soluble sugar, vitamin C, and phenol concentrations in tomato fruit.
- Intervention effect Se increased anthocyanin, lycopene, and carotenoid concentrations in tomato fruit.
- Intervention effect Se increased Se and protein concentrations in tomato fruit.
- Intervention effect Se lowered tomato fruit nitrate level.
- Intervention effect Se did not alter total organic acid concentration in fruit.
- Intervention effect Si induced changes in fruit sucrose and protein levels similar to Se.
- Intervention effect Si had no effect on other tomato fruit quality traits.
- Intervention effect Combined Si and Se did not significantly outperform individual treatments for fruit quality.