Claim · model-written summary
Zinc fertilizer had little effect on sterol content.
- Taxon
- Camellia oleifera
Camellia oleiferat0 - Treatment
- zinc fertilizere0
- Outcome
- total sterol contente1
- Direction
- little influencee0
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageInteractorInteractor roleSecond interactorSecond interactor roleComparatorSettingValueQualifier
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Verbatim
e0“zinc fertilizer had little influence on it.”
t0“Camellia oleifera”
e1“Selenium fertilizer and boron fertilizer increased the total sterol content in Camellia oil and had a significant positive correlation at the 0.01 level”
Title
Qiuyue Dai; Zheng Deng; Lan Pan; et al. Forests 2023. doi:10.3390/f14040830
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- Intervention effect Trace element treatments increased fruit transverse diameter by up to 3.07%.
- Intervention effect Treatments increased single fruit weight by up to 10.57%.
- Intervention effect Treatments increased seeds per fruit by up to 23.66%.
- Intervention effect Treatments increased fresh seed weight by up to 30.23%.
- Intervention effect Treatments increased fruit oil content by up to 7.94%.
- Intervention effect Treatments increased oil yield per plant by up to 21.95%.
- Intervention effect Low selenium increased fruit diameter.
- Intervention effect High selenium and high zinc dilution reduced fruit diameter.
- Intervention effect High selenium increased seeds per fruit.
- Observation Zero selenium, 4 mg/L boron and zinc dilution of 1500 was most effective.
- Intervention effect Lower selenium and boron concentrations and lower zinc dilutions increased oil yield.
- Intervention effect Treatments increased total sterol by up to 28.81%.
- Intervention effect Treatments increased squalene by up to 32.07%.
- Intervention effect Treatments increased total flavonoid by up to 188.04%.
- Intervention effect Treatments increased polyphenol by up to 92.61%.
- Intervention effect Selenium and boron fertilizers increased oil sterol content.
- Intervention effect High selenium generally increased squalene, flavonoids and polyphenols.
- Intervention effect Boron and zinc had little effect on those components.