Claim · model-written summary
P and Zn, especially combined, decreased the grain phytate to Zn ratio in both maize genotypes.
- Treatment
- Application of P and Zn particularly in combinatione0
- Outcome
- grain [phytate] : [Zn] ratioe0
- Direction
- decreasede0
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Verbatim
e0“Application of P and Zn particularly in combination decreased the grain [phytate] : [Zn] ratio and increased the estimated human Zn bioavailability in grains based on a trivariate model of Zn absorption in both maize genotypes.”
Title
Zinc bioavailability in maize grains in response of phosphorous–zinc interaction
Muhammad Imran; Abdur Rehim; Nadeem Sarwar; et al. Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science 2015. doi:10.1002/jpln.201500441
Other claims from this paper (7)
- Intervention effect Zn and P treatments increased maize growth and yield relative to control, with combined treatment more effective than either alone.
- Intervention effect Combined Zn and P increased grain Zn concentration by 52% relative to control, averaged across two genotypes.
- Intervention effect Combined Zn and P increased grain P concentration by 32% relative to control, averaged across two genotypes.
- Intervention effect P alone decreased grain Zn concentration by 10% relative to control.
- Intervention effect P and Zn, especially combined, increased modeled human Zn bioavailability in maize grain.
- Recommendation The authors concluded combined Zn and P was more suitable for grain yield and Zn biofortification.
- Recommendation The authors advised that Zn fertilization for yield and grain Zn should consider genotype variation and P rate.