Claim · model-written summary
Plants treated with sodium silicate were significantly more resistant to grazing by wild rabbits than untreated plants.
- Taxon
- winter wheat
Triticum aestivume0 - Treatment
- sodium silicatee1
- Interactor
- wild rabbitse1herbivore
- Outcome
- grazing by wild rabbitse1
- Direction
- more resistante1
- Comparator
- untreated plantse1
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Verbatim
e0“Systemic application of sodium silicate can significantly enhance the levels of leaf silica in winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L. cv. Mercia)”
e1“Plants treated with sodium silicate were significantly more resistant to grazing by wild rabbits than untreated plants, with severe, potentially lethal feeding damage being reduced by over 50%”
Title
Boosting silica levels in wheat leaves reduces grazing by rabbits
Jane V Cotterill; Richard W Watkins; Clare B Brennon; et al. Pest Management Science 2006. doi:10.1002/ps.1302
Other claims from this paper (8)
- Intervention effect Sodium silicate reduced feeding damage by over 50% compared with untreated plants.
- Intervention effect Systemic sodium silicate application significantly enhanced leaf silica levels in winter wheat.
- Intervention effect Silicon materials elevated plant silica levels 1.9-2.8 times over the control.
- Intervention effect Silica levels after silicon material application were in line with those of the hydroponic treatment.
- Observation Levels of silica were elevated even in young wheat plants.
- Observation Levels of silica were elevated in a range of wheat varieties.
- Intervention effect At the optimum CSS application rate, wheat silica levels were approximately doubled.
- Intervention effect At the optimum CSS application rate, wheat long-term growth or yield showed no detrimental impact.