Claim · model-written summary
Silicon increased root length by 53.9%.
- Taxon
- Black Gram
Vigna mungot0 - Treatment
- Applying Si to the sande0
- Outcome
- root length (RL)e0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Value
- 53.9%e0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Verbatim
e0“Applying Si to the sand increased the root length (RL) by 53.9%.”
t0“Black Gram (Vigna mungo L.)”
e1“Applying 40 mg/kg silicon to sand”
Title
Waheed Ahmad; Ejaz Ahmad Waraich; Arslan Haider; et al. ACS Omega 2024. doi:10.1021/acsomega.4c04727
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- Intervention effect Silicon significantly affected leaf area, shoot weights and shoot length.
- Intervention effect Drought stress increased root length by 55.9%.
- Intervention effect Salinity reduced leaf turgor potential by 10.3% relative to control.
- Intervention effect Drought increased leaf turgor potential by 44.7% relative to control.
- Intervention effect Silicon improved leaf turgor potential by 98.7%.
- Intervention effect Drought and salt stress reduced gas exchange and photosynthetic pigments.
- Intervention effect Silicon improved gas exchange and protein contents under drought and salt stress.
- Intervention effect Silicon increased chlorophyll a by 18%.
- Intervention effect Silicon increased chlorophyll b by 26%.
- Intervention effect Drought and salinity increased hydrogen peroxide concentration.
- Intervention effect Salt and drought stress decreased POD, SOD and CAT concentrations.
- Intervention effect Silicon increased POD, SOD and CAT concentrations.
- Intervention effect Silicon improved growth and development under control and stress conditions.