Claim · model-written summary
Soil borax raised seed cotton yield by more than 18%, to 1 640 kg/ha.
- Taxon
- upland cottone1
- Treatment
- soil applied borax @ 5 kg/hae0
- Outcome
- seed cotton yielde0
- Direction
- raisede0
- Value
- 1 640e0
- Qualifier
- more than 18%e0
- Comparator
- controle0
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Verbatim
e0“foliar sprays of MgSO4 @ 0.5% at 60, 75 and 90 days after planting and soil applied borax @ 5 kg/ha also raised the seed cotton yield by more than 18% (1 630 and 1 640 kg/ha, respectively) in comparison to control (1 380 kg/ha)”
e1“upland cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.)”
Title
K. Sankaranarayanan; C. S. Praharaj; P. Nalayini; et al. The Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences 2010
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- Intervention effect Micronutrient fertilization significantly enhanced ginning percentage.
- Intervention effect Micronutrient fertilization significantly enhanced fibre uniformity ratio.
- Intervention effect Soil FeSO4 gave the highest ginning percentage, 39.2%, versus 36.3% in controls.
- Intervention effect Soil FeSO4 gave a uniformity ratio of 50.2 versus 47.5 in controls.
- Intervention effect Soil borax significantly improved fibre length.
- Intervention effect Foliar MgSO4 raised seed cotton yield by more than 18%, to 1 630 kg/ha.
- Intervention effect Micronutrient fertilizers did not influence seed index, fibre strength, micronaire, fibre elongation or fibre quality index.