Claim · model-written summary
Increasing silicate significantly reduced Fe, Cu and Zn in leaves and soil.
- Taxon
- SUGARCANEt0
- Treatment
- increasing silicate applicatione0
- Outcome
- iron (Fe), copper (Cu), zinc (Zn)e0
- Direction
- decreasede0
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Verbatim
e0“With increasing silicate application, iron (Fe), copper (Cu), zinc (Zn) and manganese (Mn) contents significantly decreased in both leaf tissue and soil contents.”
t0“SUGARCANE”
Title
S. M. Bokhtiar; Hai-Rong Huang; Yang-Rui Li; et al. Journal of Plant Nutrition 2012. doi:10.1080/01904167.2012.676379
Other claims from this paper (11)
- Intervention effect Calcium silicate significantly increased photosynthesis, transpiration and stomatal conductance.
- Intervention effect Leaf P, S and Ca contents did not differ remarkably.
- Intervention effect Leaf Mg and Na contents did not differ remarkably.
- Intervention effect Increasing silicate significantly reduced Mn in leaves and soil.
- Intervention effect Silicon amendment increased dry matter yield by 26 to 70%.
- Intervention effect Silicon amendment increased cane yield by 30 to 66% per pot.
- Observation Top visible dewlap leaves contained up to 2.64% silicon on a dry-mass basis after calcium silicate amendment.
- Intervention effect Soil pH, soil silicon and leaf silicon increased with calcium silicate rate.
- Intervention effect Available soil S and exchangeable K and Na increased with silicon application rate.
- Intervention effect Exchangeable soil Ca and Mg increased with silicon application rate.
- Intervention effect Calcium silicate rates differed in elemental accumulation in epidermal, silica and stomatal cells.