Claim · model-written summary
Si supply significantly increased leaf area compared with no-feed Si plants, peaking at 0.05 g/kg
- Taxon
- alfalfa
Medicago sativat0 - Treatment
- Si supplye2
- Outcome
- leaf areae2
- Direction
- largere2
- Qualifier
- peaked in the 0.05 g/kg treatmentse2
- Comparator
- no-feed Si plantse2
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Verbatim
t0“Effect of silicon supply on alfalfa growth”
e2“Plants with Si supply had a significantly larger leaf area than no-feed Si plants, and leaf area peaked in the 0.05 g/kg treatments”
Title
Effect of silicon supply on alfalfa growth
Guo Hua ZHENG Acta Ecologica Sinica 2006
Other claims from this paper (12)
- Intervention effect Silicon content of roots and shoots increased significantly with increasing Si supply in the soil
- Observation Silicon content was greater in roots than in shoots
- Association Effect of Si supply on height and shoots was related to the growing stages of plants
- Observation In the vegetative period shoots per plant did not differ with Si supply
- Observation A significant increase in shoots per plant was observed in the reproductive period
- Intervention effect Fed-Si plants were taller than control plants in the vegetative period
- Intervention effect Fed-Si plants had 20% to 60% higher forage biomass than control
- Intervention effect Si addition increased root biomass by over 35% compared with controls
- Intervention effect Leaf-stem angle in the upper and middle leaves decreased with Si supply
- Intervention effect Leaf-stem angle in the lower leaves first increased and then decreased with Si supply
- Intervention effect Overcoming Si deficiency significantly increased shoot and root growth of alfalfa
- Observation The increasing trend of silicon content was reduced greatly when Si application exceeded 0.100 g/kg