Claim · model-written summary
Individual boron supplementation increased sunflower palmitic and linoleic acid contents.
- Taxon
- SUNFLOWER
Helianthus annuust0 - Treatment
- borone0
- Outcome
- palmitic acid and linoleic acid contentse0
- Direction
- increasee0
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Verbatim
e0“Significant decline in stearic acid and oleic acid contents while considerable increase in palmitic acid and linoleic acid contents was recorded by individual use of nitrogen and boron supplements.”
t0“SUNFLOWER”
Title
Muhammad Asif SHEHZAD; Muhammad MAQSOOD Turkish Journal Of Field Crops 2015. doi:10.17557/tjfc.83107
Other claims from this paper (11)
- Intervention effect Nitrogen and boron application extended the duration to sunflower inflorescence emergence, flowering and maturity.
- Intervention effect Individual nitrogen application significantly increased sunflower plant height and stem and head diameters.
- Intervention effect Individual boron application significantly increased sunflower plant height and stem and head diameters.
- Intervention effect Boron at 2.0 kg ha -1 with 100% recommended nitrogen significantly improved sunflower achene number, achene weight and achene yield.
- Intervention effect Nitrogen application reduced sunflower achene oil content.
- Intervention effect Boron application reduced sunflower achene oil content.
- Intervention effect Achene protein content was highest with 2.0 kg ha -1 boron and 100% recommended nitrogen.
- Intervention effect Individual nitrogen supplementation decreased sunflower stearic and oleic acid contents.
- Intervention effect Individual boron supplementation decreased sunflower stearic and oleic acid contents.
- Intervention effect Individual nitrogen supplementation increased sunflower palmitic and linoleic acid contents.
- Recommendation The authors suggested combining boron and nitrogen to improve sunflower productivity and economic performance in calcareous soil.