Claim · model-written summary
Iron deficiency significantly reduced iron concentration in Gerbera roots to 145 ppm.
- Organ / stage
- rootse2
- Treatment
- excluding Irone0
- Outcome
- nutrient concentration of Mg and Fee2
- Direction
- reductione2
- Value
- 145 ppme2
- Comparator
- control (complete nutrition)e1
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Verbatim
e0“T3 (excluding Iron)”
e1“T1 as control (complete nutrition)”
e2“significant reduction in nutrient concentration of Mg and Fe in different plant parts such as crown + leaves (0.26% and 167 ppm), roots (0.15% and 145 ppm)”
e3“Goliath cultivar of Gerbera”
Title
Evaluation of Nutrient Concentration and Uptake in Magnesium and Iron Deficient Gerbera
Shiva Kumar Udayana; N.B. More; Anandkumar Naorem International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences 2017. doi:10.20546/ijcmas.2017.606.164
Other claims from this paper (8)
- Intervention effect Magnesium deficiency significantly reduced magnesium concentration in Gerbera crowns and leaves to 0.26%.
- Intervention effect Iron deficiency significantly reduced iron concentration in Gerbera crowns and leaves to 167 ppm.
- Intervention effect Magnesium deficiency significantly reduced magnesium concentration in Gerbera roots to 0.15%.
- Intervention effect Magnesium deficiency significantly reduced magnesium concentration in Gerbera flowers to 0.08%.
- Intervention effect Iron deficiency significantly reduced iron concentration in Gerbera flowers to 60 ppm.
- Intervention effect Nutrient deficiency reduced Gerbera nutrient uptake.
- Intervention effect Nutrient deficiency lowered Gerbera dry matter production.
- Intervention effect Nutrient deficiency resulted in low quality Gerbera flowers with lower vase life and less aesthetic value.