Intervention effectmodel-written summary

Plantlet development was better in sand substrate than in vitro.

A claim from Cryopreservation of Seeds and Embryos of Jatropha curcas L. · 2015

Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultpositivemeasured

Claim · model-written summary

Plantlet development was better in sand substrate than in vitro.

Taxon
Jatropha curcas L.Jatropha curcast0
Treatment
sand substratee0
Outcome
Plantlet developmente0
Direction
bettere0
Comparator
in vitroe0

Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageInteractorInteractor roleSecond interactorSecond interactor roleSettingValueQualifier

Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Jatropha curcas
Jatropha curcas · Taxon · picture from its Wikimedia Commons categoryAdityamadhav83 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

Verbatim

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“Plantlet development was better in sand substrate than that in vitro.”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 592–661
t0

“Jatropha curcas L.”

✓ located verbatim in the source · title, characters 41–59

Title

Cryopreservation of Seeds and Embryos of Jatropha curcas L.

Julián Andrés Prada; María Elena Aguilar; Ana Abdelnour-Esquivel; et al. American Journal of Plant Sciences 2015. doi:10.4236/ajps.2015.61020

Other claims from this paper (6)

Record rev-3ff5a1bf440ffd28341be1973e8fdc8e703cefae7e4f0001f02e4f5f7c1bde1a · schema claims-v0.9 · position 2 in the model’s answer

growing medium · growth · Jatropha curcasPositive and negative results

7 papers: 5 positive, 2 negative or no effect

4 papers in the same direction as this claim · 2 in the opposite direction

  1. no effect
    More sand beyond the stated ratio did not improve growth.

    Growth responses of Jatropha Curcas seedlings under different soil mixtures, fertilizer doses, irrigation regimes and sodicity levels · 2010

    Opposite direction

  2. negative
    Direct sowing in sand gave the latest germination onset.

    Germination responses in physic nut (Jatropha curcas L.) seeds to pregerminative treatments · 2017

    Opposite direction

  3. positive
    Vermiculite was the best reported medium for Jatropha curcas seed germination, with a value of 85.

    Effect of temperatures and germination media on seed germination of Jatropha curcas Linn. · 2011

    Same direction

  4. positive
    The T2 mixture gave seedlings the best height, basal diameter and leaf number.

    Heavy metal uptake and translocation by Jatropha curcas L. in sawdust sludge contaminated soils. · 2012

    Same direction

  5. positive
    Among three substrata, sand gave the maximum germination of Jatropha curcas seed (82.3%), followed by Between Paper (77.2%).

    Seed germination and storage studies in Jatropha (Jatropha curcas L.). · 2013 · compared with Between Paper

    Same direction

  6. positive
    Ex vitro seed germination was higher in organic substrate.

    Efficiency of Cryoprotectants for In Vitro and Ex Vitro Germination of Cryopreserved Jatropha curcas Seeds · 2017

    Same direction

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Claims are grouped by organism, treatment and what was measured or targeted. A paper counts as positive when any of its claims in the group is positive.