Claim · model-written summary
Trace boron caused significant growth loss without visual deficiency symptoms.
- Taxon
- Sugarcanet0
- Treatment
- only traces of boron in once-distilled watere0
- Outcome
- growthe0
- Direction
- lossese0
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Verbatim
e0“Plants receiving only traces of boron in once-distilled water experienced significant growth and quality losses without developing visual B-deficiency symptoms”
t0“Sugarcane”
Title
Studies on the Roles of Boron in Growth and Sugar-Transport Processes of Sugarcane
Rafael Montalvo-Zapata The Journal of Agriculture of the University of Puerto Rico 1973. doi:10.46429/jaupr.v57i1.10752
Other claims from this paper (5)
- Intervention effect Trace boron caused significant quality loss.
- Observation Low boron plants lacked visible B-deficiency symptoms.
- Observation Growth decline was concentrated in lateral internode expansion.
- Intervention effect Boron insufficiency lowered leaf sucrose production.
- Intervention effect Boron insufficiency significantly altered sugar transport rates in storage tissue.