Claim · model-written summary
Cadmium reduced grain yield and yield attributes versus no cadmium.
- Taxon
- Wheat
Triticum aestivumt0 - Treatment
- Cd (15 mg kg−1) contaminatione0
- Outcome
- grain yield and yield-related attributese0
- Direction
- reducede0
- Comparator
- no-Cd treatmentse0
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Verbatim
e0“Cd (15 mg kg−1) contamination reduced the grain yield and yield-related attributes relative to respective no-Cd treatments”
t0“Wheat”
Title
Sajjad Hussain; Muhammad Irfan; Abdul Sattar; et al. Agronomy 2022. doi:10.3390/agronomy12020434
Other claims from this paper (14)
- Intervention effect Cadmium reduced wheat leaf chlorophyll a, b and total chlorophyll.
- Intervention effect Cadmium reduced soluble protein, amino acids and total soluble sugar in wheat leaves.
- Intervention effect Cadmium reduced wheat leaf phenolic contents.
- Intervention effect Cadmium increased wheat leaf SOD, POD and CAT activities.
- Intervention effect Cadmium increased APX activity in wheat leaves.
- Intervention effect Cadmium increased malondialdehyde in wheat leaves.
- Intervention effect Cadmium enhanced hydrogen peroxide and electrolyte leakage in wheat leaves.
- Intervention effect Cadmium enhanced proline in wheat leaves.
- Intervention effect Soil boron improved wheat grain yield.
- Intervention effect Soil biochar improved wheat grain yield.
- Intervention effect Boron or biochar increased proline and reduced hydrogen peroxide and malondialdehyde.
- Intervention effect Boron and biochar applications reduced wheat H2O2 and MDA.
- Intervention effect Combined boron and biochar raised soluble sugars and total phenolics versus controls and cadmium.
- Recommendation The authors recommend combined boron and biochar for wheat yield on cadmium contaminated soil.