Claim · model-written summary
Excess iron reduced maize height by 62% versus control.
- Treatment
- 750 mg Fe kg−1 of soile0
- Outcome
- plant heighte0
- Direction
- reductione0
- Value
- 62%e0
- Comparator
- the controle0
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Verbatim
e0“excessive iron content (750 mg Fe kg−1 of soil) significantly restricted plant growth, causing a 62% reduction in plant height and a reduction in fresh and dry matter mass of 92% and 94%, respectively, compared to the control.”
t0“Maize (Zea mays L.)”
Title
Mirosław Wyszkowski; Natalia Kordala Molecules 2026. doi:10.3390/molecules31111926
Other claims from this paper (11)
- Intervention effect Excess iron reduced fresh matter mass by 92%.
- Intervention effect Excess iron reduced dry matter mass by 94%.
- Intervention effect The lowest iron dose increased maize height without additives.
- Intervention effect The lowest iron dose increased maize fresh matter mass without additives.
- Intervention effect Bentonite increased plant height by an average 92% versus no additives under iron stress.
- Intervention effect Bentonite increased fresh matter mass by 167% versus no additives.
- Intervention effect Bentonite increased dry matter mass by 193% versus no additives.
- Intervention effect Bentonite limited the decline in SPAD index during growth.
- Intervention effect Humic acids limited the decline in SPAD index during growth.
- Intervention effect Iron contamination altered maize biomass chemistry.
- Intervention effect The additives corrected iron-related changes in maize biomass chemistry to varying degrees.