Claim · model-written summary
Silicon raised stomatal conductance by 33.3% under zinc toxicity.
- Treatment
- Zn toxicity + Sie0
- Outcome
- stomatal conductancee0
- Direction
- increasese0
- Value
- 33.3e0
- Comparator
- Zn-only treatmente0
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Verbatim
e0“The Zn toxicity + Si presented significant increases of 33.3, 25.2, 15 and 9.8% to stomatal conductance, net photosynthetic rate, transpiration rate, and water use efficiency, respectively, compared to Zn-only treatment”
t0“maize plants”
Title
Lucélia de Sousa Paula; Bianca do Carmo Silva; Wrielle Cordeiro Silva de Pinho; et al. Australian Journal of Crop Science 2015
Other claims from this paper (7)
- Intervention effect Zinc increased hydrogen peroxide in maize roots and leaves.
- Intervention effect Zinc increased electrolyte leakage in maize roots and leaves.
- Intervention effect Silicon raised net photosynthetic rate by 25.2% under zinc toxicity.
- Intervention effect Silicon raised transpiration rate by 15% under zinc toxicity.
- Intervention effect Silicon raised water use efficiency by 9.8% under zinc toxicity.
- Intervention effect With silicon, total, a and b chlorophyll showed nonsignificant increases relative to zinc toxicity alone.
- Intervention effect With silicon, carotenoids showed a nonsignificant increase relative to zinc toxicity alone.