Claim · model-written summary
B content increased through 1.0 mg B kg−1 soil boron, then showed no further significant increase.
- Taxon
- Cotton
Gossypium hirsutumt0 - Treatment
- 1.0 mg B kg−1 soil-applied B levele0
- Outcome
- B contente0
- Direction
- increasede0
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Verbatim
t0“Cotton”
e0“The mean B content and its uptake by seed cotton and roots increased significantly up to 1.0 mg B kg−1 soil-applied B level and then recorded nonsignificant with further higher levels of boron.”
Title
Sunil Kumar; Dinesh Kumar; K. S. Sekhon; et al. Communications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis 2018. doi:10.1080/00103624.2018.1431268
Other claims from this paper (17)
- Intervention effect seed cotton yield increased with soil boron to 1.0 mg B kg−1 over control, with no significant further gain.
- Intervention effect plant height increased with soil boron to 1.0 mg B kg−1 over control, with no significant further gain.
- Intervention effect number of sympodial and monopodial branches increased with soil boron to 1.0 mg B kg−1 over control, with no significant further gain.
- Intervention effect boll weight increased with soil boron to 1.0 mg B kg−1 over control, with no significant further gain.
- Intervention effect number of boll per plant increased with soil boron to 1.0 mg B kg−1 over control, with no significant further gain.
- Intervention effect root biomass increased with soil boron to 1.0 mg B kg−1 over control, with no significant further gain.
- Intervention effect uptake by seed cotton and roots increased through 1.0 mg B kg−1 soil boron, then showed no further significant increase.
- Intervention effect Foliar 0.1% borax performed better than 0.2% borax.
- Intervention effect Soil and foliar boron applications performed comparably.
- Intervention effect Borax and granubor were equally efficient.
- Intervention effect Foliar boron increased seed cotton B content and uptake over control.
- Intervention effect Soil applied boron increased available soil B at all sampled stages.
- Intervention effect Foliar boron did not significantly change available soil B.
- Association Available soil B was positively correlated with root biomass.
- Association Available soil B was positively correlated with boron uptake by root.
- Association Available soil B was positively correlated with sympodial branch per plant.
- Association B application level and source had no significant interaction for studied traits.