Claim · model-written summary
Potassium addition to salty water improved wheat plant height to 72.25 cm.
- Taxon
- bread wheat Triticum aestivum L.
Triticum aestivumt0 - Treatment
- K+e0
- Outcome
- plant heighte0
- Direction
- improvede0
- Value
- 72.25 cme0
- Comparator
- river water without K+e0
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Verbatim
e0“K+ improved the performance of river water and salty water in plant height (70.71and 72.25 cm, respectively) and leaf area (28.29, and 24.41cm2, respectively) as they compared to river water without K+ (63.83 cm and 21.87 cm2, respectively)”
t0“bread wheat Triticum aestivum L.”
Title
F R A Al-Burki; C G Abdel; D M Majeed; et al. IOP Conference Series Earth and Environmental Science 2019. doi:10.1088/1755-1315/388/1/012042
Other claims from this paper (16)
- Intervention effect Potassium addition to river water improved wheat plant height to 70.71 cm versus 63.83 cm without potassium.
- Intervention effect Potassium addition to river water improved wheat leaf area to 28.29 compared with 21.87 cm2 without potassium.
- Intervention effect Potassium addition to salty water improved wheat leaf area to 24.41cm2.
- Observation IBA99 had the highest reported plant height of 70.375 cm among cultivars.
- Observation IBA99 had a reported 1000-seed weight of 32.583 g.
- Observation IBA99 had 55.475 grains per spike, reported as highest among cultivars.
- Observation Rasheed had plant height of 74.41 cm.
- Observation Rasheed had 1000-seed weight of 33.33 g.
- Observation Rasheed had spike length of 14.816 cm.
- Intervention effect Rasheed combined with river water and potassium had highest plant height of 78.66 cm.
- Intervention effect Rasheed combined with river water and potassium had leaf area of 35.05 cm2. - 1.
- Intervention effect Rasheed combined with river water and potassium had 1000-grain weight of 37.33 g.
- Intervention effect IBA99 with salt water and potassium had 61.36 g grains per spike as reported.
- Observation TaHKT2;2 gene bands appeared clearly in Rasheed.
- Observation The reported TaHKT2;2 gene band size was 500 nucleotides.
- Recommendation The authors recommend Rasheed for salt-tolerance wheat breeding by hybridization.