Claim · model-written summary
Foliar ZnNPs increased grain zinc content by 53.03%.
- Treatment
- Foliar spray of ZnNPs at the rate of 150 mg L-1e0
- Outcome
- grain zinc contente0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Value
- 53.03e0
- Comparator
- controle0
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Verbatim
e0“Foliar spray of ZnNPs at the rate of 150 mg L-1 increased leaf area, plant height, thousand-grain weight, biological yield, grain yield, grain zinc content, and total zinc uptake by 15.25, 9.03, 5.88, 7.54, 7.73, 53.03 and 34.65% as compared to control”
t0“maize”
Title
Global NEST Journal 2025. doi:10.30955/gnj.07370
Other claims from this paper (19)
- Intervention effect Foliar ZnNPs at 150 mg L-1 increased maize leaf area by 15.25%.
- Intervention effect Foliar ZnNPs increased maize plant height by 9.03%.
- Intervention effect Foliar ZnNPs increased thousand-grain weight by 5.88%.
- Intervention effect Foliar ZnNPs increased biological yield by 7.54%.
- Intervention effect Foliar ZnNPs increased grain yield by 7.73%.
- Intervention effect Foliar ZnNPs increased total zinc uptake by 34.65%.
- Intervention effect Seed priming with ZnNPs increased leaf area by 12.21%.
- Intervention effect Seed priming increased plant height by 18.47%.
- Intervention effect Seed priming increased grains per ear by 6.26%.
- Intervention effect Seed priming increased thousand-grain weight by 15.30%.
- Intervention effect Seed priming increased biological yield by 16.71%.
- Intervention effect Seed priming increased grain yield by 9.40%.
- Intervention effect Seed priming increased grain zinc content by 26.16%.
- Intervention effect Seed priming increased total zinc uptake by 59.77%.
- Intervention effect ZnNPs improved chlorophyll pigments and photosynthetic rate.
- Intervention effect ZnNPs stabilized transpiration rate and electrolyte leakage.
- Intervention effect ZnNPs increased canopy temperature depression.
- Intervention effect ZnNPs reduced heat shock protein.
- Recommendation Authors recommend 150 mg L-1 ZnNPs by foliar spray or seed priming to improve maize heat resilience and yield.