Claim · model-written summary
Nano-silica concentrations did not vary soil salinity.
- Treatment
- foliar application with different concentrations with nano-silicae0
- Outcome
- soil salinitye0
- Direction
- no variationse0
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Verbatim
e0“there are no variations between soil salinity and foliar application with different concentrations with nano-silica”
t0“Effect of nano silica sized application and different levels of saline irrigation water on soil properties and crop-water productivity of maize and faba bean”
Title
Megahed Amer Environment, Biodiversity and Soil Security 2018. doi:10.21608/jenvbs.2018.3753.1026
Other claims from this paper (15)
- Intervention effect Irrigation water treatments varied soil salinity in maize.
- Observation Maize exchangeable sodium percentage varied among irrigation treatments.
- Intervention effect Maize root anatomy increased with nano-Si.
- Intervention effect Faba bean root anatomy increased with nano-Si.
- Intervention effect Increasing irrigation salinity decreased root anatomical characters.
- Intervention effect T2 reduced maize grain yield by 39.28%.
- Intervention effect T2 reduced faba bean grain yield by 80.13%.
- Intervention effect T2 reduced maize straw yield by 38.84%.
- Intervention effect T2 reduced faba bean straw yield by 78.06%.
- Intervention effect T4 with 300 mg L-1 nano-silica gave the highest maize grain yield.
- Intervention effect T4 with nano-silica gave the highest maize straw yield.
- Intervention effect T4 with nano-silica gave the highest faba bean grain yield.
- Intervention effect T4 with nano-silica gave the highest faba bean straw yield.
- Observation Chlorophyll, nitrogen uptake and nitrogen use efficiency followed the yield trend.
- Recommendation The authors recommend 300 mg L-1 nano-silica to mitigate salt stress.