Claim · model-written summary
Without silicon, salt stress decreased copper content in alfalfa.
- Taxon
- alfalfa
Medicago sativat0 - Treatment
- Salt stresse0
- Outcome
- Cu2+ contentse0
- Direction
- decreasede0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Verbatim
e0“Salt stress decreased the K+, Ca2+, Mg2+ and Cu2+ contents in plants”
t0“alfalfa”
Title
Xiao Shan Wang; Jian Guo Han Soil Science & Plant Nutrition 2007. doi:10.1111/j.1747-0765.2007.00135.x
Other claims from this paper (10)
- Intervention effect Added silicon lowered root sodium in Zhongmu No.1 relative to NaCl alone.
- Intervention effect Added silicon raised shoot and leaf potassium in Zhongmu No.1 relative to NaCl alone.
- Intervention effect Under NaCl stress, silicon did not significantly affect iron, magnesium or zinc contents in Defor roots, shoots and leaves.
- Intervention effect Under NaCl stress, silicon did not significantly affect iron, magnesium or zinc in Zhongmu No.1 roots and shoots.
- Intervention effect Silicon increased root calcium in Zhongmu No.1 under salt stress.
- Intervention effect Silicon increased shoot and leaf manganese in both cultivars under salt stress.
- Intervention effect Silicon decreased calcium and copper in shoots and leaves of both cultivars under salt stress.
- Intervention effect Without silicon, salt stress decreased potassium, calcium and magnesium contents in alfalfa.
- Intervention effect Without silicon, salt stress increased zinc in roots, shoots and leaves of both cultivars.
- Intervention effect Without silicon, salt stress increased shoot manganese in both cultivars.