Claim · model-written summary
Zinc application significantly increased chickpea protein yield and grain protein content.
- Taxon
- chickpea
Cicer arietinumt0 - Treatment
- Application of Zne0
- Outcome
- protein yield, protein content in graine0
- Direction
- increasede0
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Verbatim
e0“Application of Zn significantly increased grain and straw yields, Zn concentration in grain and straw and its total uptake and protein yield, protein content in grain”
t0“chickpea (Cicer arietinum)”
Title
YASHBIR SINGH SHIVAY; RAJENDRA PRASAD; MADAN PAL Indian Journal of Agronomy 2001. doi:10.59797/ija.v59i2.4558
Other claims from this paper (12)
- Observation Pusa 372 had the highest chickpea grain yield of 2.13 tonnes/ha.
- Observation Pusa 372 had the highest grain zinc concentration of 42.9 mg/kg grain.
- Observation Pusa 372 had the highest straw zinc concentration of 36.8 mg/kg straw.
- Observation Pusa 372 had the highest total zinc uptake of 229.0 g/ha.
- Observation Pusa 372 had the highest protein yield of 480.6 kg/ha.
- Observation Pusa 372 had the highest grain protein content of 22.7%.
- Observation Pusa 2024 had the lowest chickpea protein content of 19.9%.
- Intervention effect Zinc application significantly increased chickpea grain and straw yields.
- Intervention effect Zinc application significantly increased grain and straw zinc concentration and total uptake.
- Intervention effect Zinc application significantly increased chickpea nitrogen uptake.
- Intervention effect Zinc application significantly increased gross and net returns.
- Intervention effect Zinc application increased fertilizer efficiency, reaching 26.6 kg grain/kg applied NPK at 7.5 kg Zn/ha versus 22.3 at no zinc.