Claim · model-written summary
The authors conclude that seeds with elevated zinc content can improve maize field performance on calcareous chernozem.
- Outcome
- using the seeds with elevated Zn content can improve overall field performancee0
- Setting
- calcareous chernozeme0
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Verbatim
e0“using the seeds with elevated Zn content can improve overall field performance of maize grown on calcareous chernozem”
Title
Seed priming with zinc improves field performance of maize hybrids grown on calcareous chernozem
Gordana Tamindžić; Maja Ignjatov; Dragana Milošević; et al. Italian Journal of Agronomy 2021. doi:10.4081/ija.2021.1795
Other claims from this paper (8)
- Intervention effect Zinc priming promoted maize plant growth.
- Intervention effect Zinc priming increased final maize plant height.
- Intervention effect Zinc priming raised maize grain yield by about 18% relative to the unprimed control.
- Intervention effect Zinc priming raised maize grain yield by about 8.4% relative to water priming.
- Association Plant growth parameters were significantly related to grain yield components in maize.
- Association Plant growth parameters were significantly related to grain yield in maize.
- Intervention effect Zinc priming increased grain zinc concentration in two maize hybrids during the drier season.
- Intervention effect Zinc priming increased grain zinc concentration in one maize hybrid during the second season.