Claim · model-written summary
Without silicon, the minimal soil moisture for tall fescue plant growth was 75% of field water capacity.
- Taxon
- tall fescue
Lolium arundinaceume1 - Outcome
- minimal requirement for soil moisturee3
- Value
- 75% of field water capacitye3
- Qualifier
- when addition of silicon was unavailablee3
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Verbatim
e1“A pot experiment was conducted to determine the effect of addition of silicon on seed emergence and growth of tall fescue(Festuca arundinacea) under the different soil moistures”
e3“the minimal requirement for soil moisture was 75% of field water capacity for plant growth of tall fescue when addition of silicon was unavailable”
Title
Xinghua Guo Acta Pratacultural Science 2012
Other claims from this paper (10)
- Observation Soil moisture of 45% to 60% of field water capacity was suitable for tall fescue seed emergence.
- Intervention effect Addition of silicon shortened the time of tall fescue seed emergence when soil moisture was 60% of field water capacity or over.
- Intervention effect Addition of silicon increased the survival seedling rate of tall fescue when soil moisture was 60% of field water capacity or over.
- Intervention effect Addition of silicon encouraged plant height and leaf length of tall fescue when soil moisture was 60% of field water capacity or over.
- Intervention effect Addition of silicon increased biomass of shoots and roots of tall fescue when soil moisture was 60% of field water capacity or over.
- Intervention effect Addition of silicon did not affect tall fescue growth when soil moisture was 45% of field water capacity or below.
- Intervention effect Tillers per plant, height and leaf length of tall fescue with silicon at 60% of field water capacity did not differ significantly from the control at 75%.
- Intervention effect Total biomass of tall fescue with silicon at 60% of field water capacity did not differ significantly from the control at 75%.
- Intervention effect Addition of silicon is suggested to reduce the minimal soil moisture requirement for health growth of tall fescue.
- Intervention effect Addition of silicon is suggested to benefit saving of irrigation water for tall fescue.