Claim · model-written summary
KCl increased alfalfa biomass by 80% relative to an untreated control soil.
- Taxon
- alfalfa
Medicago sativae0 - Treatment
- KCle2
- Outcome
- biomass generatione2
- Direction
- improvemente2
- Value
- 80%e2
- Comparator
- untreated control soile2
- Setting
- glasshousee7
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Verbatim
e0“alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) grown on a contaminated soil”
e2“Regarding to biomass generation it was observed, in every case, that plant growth is not affected in the treated soil compared with blanks sown in an untreated control soil; improvement ranged from 80% for the KCl to 97% for sheep manure”
e7“This glasshouse study examined the effect of application of fertilizers”
Title
Zouheir Elouear; Farah Bouhamed; Nesrine Boujelben; et al. Sustainable Environment Research 2016. doi:10.1016/j.serj.2016.04.004
Other claims from this paper (9)
- Observation Alfalfa could tolerate high Cd, Pb and Zn concentrations in soil.
- Observation Alfalfa had very good growth performance on the contaminated soil.
- Intervention effect Sheep manure increased alfalfa biomass by 97% relative to an untreated control soil.
- Intervention effect Plant growth was not affected in the treated soil compared with the untreated control soil.
- Intervention effect Sheep manure application increased electrical conductivity of the soils.
- Intervention effect Sheep manure application reduced DTPA-extractable metal concentrations in the soils.
- Intervention effect KCl fertilizer favored metal accumulation in alfalfa plants.
- Recommendation KCl could be a useful amendment for phytoextraction of metals by accumulator species.
- Recommendation Sheep manure can be very useful for phytostabilisation.