Claim · model-written summary
Seed priming with Zn+Mn increased grain yield by 33% relative to untreated seeds.
- Taxon
- bread wheat
Triticum aestivumt0 - Treatment
- Zn+Mne3
- Outcome
- Grain yielde3
- Direction
- increasese3
- Value
- 33%e3
- Comparator
- untreated seedse3
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Verbatim
t0“improves stand establishment, grain yield and biofortification of bread wheat”
e3“Grain yield improvement from different seed priming treatments was in the order Zn+B > Zn+Mn > Zn > B > Mn > Zn+B+Mn, with respective increases of 34%, 33%, 21%, 19%, 18% and 8% relative to untreated seeds”
Title
Nauman Ali; Muhammad Farooq; Muhammad Ahmad Hassan; et al. Crop and Pasture Science 2018. doi:10.1071/cp18042
Other claims from this paper (10)
- Intervention effect Seed priming with micronutrients improved stand establishment of bread wheat relative to untreated seeds.
- Intervention effect Seed priming with Zn+B gave the best stand establishment of bread wheat.
- Intervention effect Seed priming with Zn+B increased grain yield by 34% relative to untreated seeds.
- Intervention effect Seed priming with Zn increased grain yield by 21% relative to untreated seeds.
- Intervention effect Seed priming with B increased grain yield by 19% relative to untreated seeds.
- Intervention effect Seed priming with Mn increased grain yield by 18% relative to untreated seeds.
- Intervention effect Seed priming with Zn+B+Mn increased grain yield by 8% relative to untreated seeds.
- Intervention effect Seed priming with Zn, B and Mn improved the contents of the respective micronutrients in straw and grain of bread wheat.
- Observation Seed priming treatments were economically profitable in bread wheat, except Zn+B+Mn, which was not cost-effective.
- Intervention effect Seed priming with Zn+B gave the highest benefit : cost ratio in bread wheat.