Claim · model-written summary
Selenium treatments gave lettuce higher yields than untreated plants.
- Taxon
- lettuce
Lactuca sativae0 - Treatment
- Se treatmentse3
- Outcome
- yieldse3
- Direction
- highere3
- Comparator
- untreated plantse3
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Verbatim
e0“this experiment was conducted in 2014/2015 and 2015/2016 seasons at Ras Sudr station of Desert Research Center, South Sinai Governorate, Egypt, to determine the most effective selenium (Se) dose and application method on lettuce plants Bruma cultivar under salt stress conditions”
e3“The plants grown under the Se treatments had larger heads and higher yields than the untreated plants”
Title
Osama Shalaby; Mansour Ramadan Egyptian Journal of Desert Research 2017. doi:10.21608/ejdr.2017.7137
Other claims from this paper (9)
- Intervention effect Selenium provision improved the leaf number of lettuce compared with the control treatment.
- Intervention effect Selenium provision improved the chlorophyll content of lettuce compared with the control treatment.
- Intervention effect Selenium provision improved leaf N, P and K concentrations of lettuce compared with the control treatment.
- Intervention effect Selenium provision improved leaf Ca concentration of lettuce compared with the control treatment.
- Intervention effect Selenium treatment decreased leaf Na content of lettuce compared with the control treatment.
- Intervention effect Selenium treatments gave lettuce larger heads than untreated plants.
- Intervention effect Foliar spraying was the most effective method of selenium application for lettuce.
- Intervention effect The best lettuce results were obtained with the foliar spraying treatment.
- Recommendation Applying the appropriate dose of selenium via foliar spraying is suggested as an efficient and practical way to improve lettuce growth and salt-stress resistance.