Claim · model-written summary
Foliar ZnO nanoparticle spray increased rice fresh biomass relative to control.
- Taxon
- rice
Oryza sativat0 - Treatment
- foliar spray of ZnO NPse0
- Outcome
- fresh biomasse0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Comparator
- controle0
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Verbatim
e0“foliar spray of ZnO NPs increased fresh biomass, grain yield, Zn content in grain and straw as compared to control”
t0“rice (Oryza sativa L.) grain”
Title
Muhammad Akmal; Ayesha Younus; Abdul Wakeel; et al. Journal of Plant Nutrition 2022. doi:10.1080/01904167.2022.2087090
Other claims from this paper (7)
- Intervention effect Foliar ZnO nanoparticle spray increased grain yield by 11% compared with control.
- Intervention effect Foliar ZnO nanoparticle spray increased grain zinc content by 28% compared with control.
- Intervention effect Foliar ZnO nanoparticle spray increased straw zinc content compared with control.
- Intervention effect Soil application of ZnO nanoparticles increased husk zinc by 21% over control.
- Intervention effect Soil application of ZnO nanoparticles increased root zinc by 29% over control.
- Observation Soil applied ZnO nanoparticles mostly accumulated in roots or moved to husk.
- Recommendation The authors recommend foliar ZnO nanoparticles as a rice growth promoter and for biofortification.