Claim · model-written summary
Foliar spray with potassium silicate at 4% or 3% significantly increased plant height, number of leaves and fresh weight of cucumber plants.
- Taxon
- Cucumber
Cucumis sativust0 - Treatment
- foliar spray with potassium silicate at 4% or 3%e0
- Outcome
- plant height, number of leaves/ plant, fresh weight of plante0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Comparator
- other treatments or untreated plants (control)e0
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Verbatim
t0“Cucumber Fruits”
e0“The results indicated that foliar spray with potassium silicate at 4% or 3% significantly increased vegetative growth parameters (plant height, number of leaves/ plant, fresh weight of plant and chlorophyll reading (SPAD) in leaves, silicon and potassium contents in the leaves, yield and its components (fruit weight and total yield / plant), physical and chemical properties of fruit and silicon and potassium contents in fruits as compared with other treatments or untreated plants (control)”
Title
said shehata Annals of Agricultural Science Moshtohor 2018. doi:10.21608/assjm.2018.116147
Other claims from this paper (8)
- Intervention effect Foliar potassium silicate significantly increased leaf SPAD chlorophyll reading and silicon and potassium contents in the leaves of cucumber.
- Intervention effect Foliar potassium silicate significantly increased fruit weight and total yield per plant of cucumber.
- Intervention effect Foliar potassium silicate significantly increased physical and chemical properties of cucumber fruit.
- Intervention effect Foliar potassium silicate significantly increased silicon and potassium contents in cucumber fruits.
- Intervention effect Potassium silicate at 4% reduced weight loss of cucumber fruit during storage.
- Intervention effect Potassium silicate at 4% reduced colour change of cucumber fruit during storage.
- Intervention effect Potassium silicate at 4% maintained fruit firmness, TSS and vitamin C of cucumber fruit during storage.
- Observation Cucumber fruit treated with potassium silicate at 4% showed good appearance after 15 days of storage at 10o C.