Claim · model-written summary
Under saline conditions, foliar potassium salts improved sunflower water-use efficiency and relative water content.
- Taxon
- sunflower
Helianthus annuuse0 - Treatment
- foliar‐applied different sources of potassiume0
- Outcome
- water‐use efficiency, relative water contente0
- Direction
- improvede0
- Qualifier
- under saline conditionse0
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Verbatim
e0“foliar‐applied different sources of potassium improved shoot and root fresh and shoot dry weights, achene yield, 100‐achene weight, photosynthetic rate, transpiration rate, stomatal conductance, water‐use efficiency, relative water content, and leaf and root K + concentrations of sunflower plants grown under saline conditions.”
Title
Muhammad Saeed Akram; Muhammad Ashraf; Muhammad Shahbaz; et al. Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science 2009. doi:10.1002/jpln.200900102
Other claims from this paper (11)
- Intervention effect Salt stress adversely affected sunflower growth and yield components.
- Intervention effect Salt stress adversely affected sunflower gas exchange and water relations.
- Intervention effect Salt stress caused nutrient imbalance in sunflower.
- Intervention effect Under saline conditions, foliar potassium salts improved sunflower shoot and root fresh weights and shoot dry weight.
- Intervention effect Under saline conditions, foliar potassium salts improved sunflower achene yield and 100-achene weight.
- Intervention effect Under saline conditions, foliar potassium salts improved sunflower photosynthesis, transpiration, and stomatal conductance.
- Intervention effect Under saline conditions, foliar potassium salts improved sunflower leaf and root potassium concentrations.
- Intervention effect Under nonsaline conditions, foliar potassium salts improved sunflower shoot fresh weight, achene yield, and 100-achene weight.
- Intervention effect Under nonsaline conditions, foliar potassium salts improved sunflower photosynthetic and transpiration rates.
- Intervention effect Under nonsaline conditions, foliar potassium salts improved sunflower root sodium concentration.
- Intervention effect Potassium sulfate, phosphate, nitrate, and carbonate were more effective than chloride and hydroxide for sunflower growth and physiology.