Claim · model-written summary
Foliar manganese increased seed germination by an average of 14% versus control.
- Taxon
- Cotton
Gossypium hirsutumt0 - Treatment
- Foliar application of Mne0
- Outcome
- seed germinatione0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Value
- 14%e0
- Comparator
- control treatmente0
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Verbatim
e0“Foliar application of Mn increased seed germination by an average of 14% and increased seed vigor (AA) by an average of 28% compared with the control treatment”
t0“Cotton”
Title
Christos Dordas Journal of Plant Nutrition 2009. doi:10.1080/01904160802609013
Other claims from this paper (9)
- Intervention effect Manganese raised cotton chlorophyll content by up to 17% versus control.
- Intervention effect The two manganese rates did not differ in chlorophyll content.
- Intervention effect Manganese increased cotton seed yield by an average of 30%.
- Intervention effect Manganese increased bolls per plant by 31%.
- Intervention effect Manganese increased bolls per square meter by 31%.
- Intervention effect Manganese increased boll retention by 37%.
- Intervention effect Manganese did not affect mean boll weight or fiber quality.
- Intervention effect Foliar manganese increased seed vigor by an average of 28% versus control.
- Recommendation The authors conclude foliar manganese can improve lint and seed yield and seed quality on calcareous soils.