Claim · model-written summary
After transplanting, NaCl tray seedlings had higher shoot and root fresh and dry weights.
- Taxon
- sweet pepper
Capsicum annuumt0 - Treatment
- NaCl coated trayse0
- Outcome
- fresh and dry weights of shoots and rootse0
- Direction
- highere0
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Verbatim
e0“after transplanting, seedlings from NaCl coated trays showed better performance with taller plants, longer roots, and higher fresh and dry weights of shoots and roots”
t0“sweet pepper”
Title
Environment Friendly Salt Coating For Root Pruning Of Sweet Pepper Seedlings
Surendra Lal Shrestha; Won-Hee Kang Journal of Agriculture and Environment 2013. doi:10.3126/aej.v12i0.7566
Other claims from this paper (7)
- Intervention effect NaCl tray coating significantly reduced excessive seedling growth.
- Intervention effect NaCl tray coating significantly reduced root mat formation.
- Intervention effect NaCl-treated seedlings produced more fibrous roots.
- Intervention effect Before transplanting, untreated seedlings were taller with longer roots.
- Intervention effect Before transplanting, untreated seedlings had higher shoot and root fresh and dry weight.
- Intervention effect After transplanting, NaCl tray seedlings were taller with longer roots.
- Intervention effect The 7% NaCl treatment performed best among treated and control plants.