Claim · model-written summary
A first Fe dose stimulated maize biomass growth without humic acids relative to uncontaminated soil.
- Treatment
- first dose of Fee0
- Outcome
- plant biomass growthe0
- Direction
- stimulatede0
- Comparator
- absence of Fe contaminatione0
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Verbatim
e0“In the absence of HAs, the first dose of Fe-stimulated plant biomass growth was compared to the absence of Fe contamination.”
t0“maize”
Title
Mirosław Wyszkowski; Natalia Kordala Energies 2024. doi:10.3390/en17122839
Other claims from this paper (19)
- Intervention effect The highest soil Fe contamination reduced maize biomass yield by up to 93%.
- Intervention effect Humic acids increased maize biomass by up to 53% and mitigated the Fe effect.
- Intervention effect Maize biomass yield rose nearly linearly with increasing humic acid dose.
- Intervention effect Maize dry matter content changed analogously with increasing humic acid doses.
- Intervention effect Soil Fe treatment increased Fe content in maize biomass up to threefold without humic acids.
- Intervention effect Soil Fe treatment decreased maize Co content by 17%.
- Intervention effect Soil Fe treatment decreased maize Cr content by 21%.
- Intervention effect Soil Fe treatment decreased maize Cd content by 44%.
- Intervention effect Soil Fe treatment increased maize Cu accumulation by 32%.
- Intervention effect Soil Fe treatment increased maize Ni accumulation by 63%.
- Intervention effect Soil Fe treatment increased maize Pb accumulation by 75%.
- Intervention effect Soil Fe treatment increased maize Zn accumulation by 97%.
- Intervention effect Soil Fe treatment increased maize Mn accumulation by 203%.
- Intervention effect Humic acids reduced Fe accumulation in maize biomass under Fe contamination.
- Intervention effect Humic acids decreased most tested trace elements in maize biomass, except Ni and Pb.
- Intervention effect Humic acids reduced maize Cr and Mn levels by 11%.
- Intervention effect Humic acids reduced maize Cd level by 72%.
- Intervention effect Humic acids raised Ni accumulation in maize biomass relative to no humic acids.
- Intervention effect Humic acids raised Pb accumulation in maize biomass relative to no humic acids.