Claim · model-written summary
Foliar zinc significantly increased groundnut seed zinc content.
- Taxon
- groundnut
Arachis hypogaeat0 - Treatment
- foliar application of 0.2% aqueous solution of zinc sulphatee0
- Outcome
- seed zinc (Zn) contente0
- Direction
- increasede0
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Verbatim
e0“foliar application of 0.2% aqueous solution of zinc sulphate thrice at 40, 55 and 70 days at 500, 500 and 1000 L ha−1, respectively, increased the number of pods, pod yield, shelling and 100 seed mass and seed zinc (Zn) content, significantly.”
t0“groundnut”
Title
Zinc Biofortification in Sixty Groundnut Cultivars Through Foliar Application of Zinc Sulphate
A. L. Singh; V. Chaudhari Journal of Plant Nutrition 2015. doi:10.1080/01904167.2015.1042165
Other claims from this paper (10)
- Intervention effect Foliar zinc significantly increased groundnut pod number, pod yield and shelling.
- Intervention effect Foliar zinc significantly increased groundnut 100 seed mass.
- Observation Groundnut seed zinc ranged from 38 to 70 mg kg−1.
- Observation Average groundnut seed zinc was 48 mg kg−1 without zinc.
- Observation Average groundnut seed zinc was 58 mg kg−1 with zinc.
- Intervention effect Foliar zinc increased groundnut seed zinc by 22%.
- Observation Forty-eight of sixty cultivars had more than 10% seed zinc increase.
- Observation The listed cultivars exceeded 50 mg kg−1 seed zinc.
- Intervention effect The listed cultivars had over 10% seed zinc increase with zinc application.
- Observation The listed cultivars exceeded 250 g m−2 pod yield.