Claim · model-written summary
Foliar SiO2 nanofertilizer improved seedling growth of both cocoa clones.
- Taxon
- Theobroma cacao
Theobroma cacaot0 - Treatment
- spraying with SiO 2 -NFe7
- Outcome
- growthe7
- Direction
- improvede7
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Verbatim
t0“Criollo cocoa clones (Theobroma cacao L.)”
e7“Overall, spraying with SiO 2 -NF had a positive effect on photosynthetic processes in both cocoa clones, associated with an increase in nutrients content, which translated into improved growth”
Title
Pedro Gómez-Vera; Héctor Blanco-Flores; Ana Marta Francisco; et al. Experimental Agriculture 2021. doi:10.1017/s0014479721000065
Other claims from this paper (14)
- Intervention effect Foliar SiO2 nanofertilizer increased net photosynthetic rate of clone OC-61 by 16%.
- Intervention effect Foliar SiO2 nanofertilizer increased net photosynthetic rate of clone BR-05 by 60%.
- Intervention effect Foliar SiO2 nanofertilizer increased electron transport rate of clone OC-61 by 52%.
- Intervention effect Foliar SiO2 nanofertilizer increased electron transport rate of clone BR-05 by 162%.
- Intervention effect SiO2 nanofertilizer decreased stomatal conductance of clone OC-61 by 37%.
- Intervention effect SiO2 nanofertilizer decreased stomatal conductance of clone BR-05 by 22%.
- Intervention effect SiO2 nanofertilizer increased water use efficiency of clone OC-61 by 42%.
- Intervention effect SiO2 nanofertilizer increased water use efficiency of clone BR-05 by 100%.
- Intervention effect SiO2 nanofertilizer increased graft diameter of both cocoa clones by 28% on average.
- Intervention effect Foliar SiO2 nanofertilizer did not change photosynthetic pigment concentration in either cocoa clone.
- Intervention effect Foliar SiO2 nanofertilizer significantly reduced PNUE in clone OC-61.
- Intervention effect Foliar SiO2 nanofertilizer increased PNUE in clone BR-05.
- Association Higher photosynthetic capacity of cocoa was related to increased leaf N, P and TSP.
- Observation Clone BR-05 had a better physiological response to SiO2 nanofertilizer during establishment and development stages than OC-61.