Claim · model-written summary
Silicon did not clearly change N, P, K, Ca or Mg content in shoots or grain under water deficit.
- Treatment
- Si-treated plantse0
- Outcome
- contents of N, P, K, Ca and Mg in shoot and graine0
- Direction
- no clear increase/decreasee0
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Verbatim
e0“There was no clear increase/decrease in the contents of N, P, K, Ca and Mg in shoot and grain of Si-treated plants under water-deficit stress”
t0“maize”
Title
Napat Sirisuntornlak; Hayat Ullah; Weerasin Sonjaroon; et al. Journal of Plant Nutrition 2021. doi:10.1080/01904167.2021.1884707
Other claims from this paper (9)
- Intervention effect One millimolar silicon significantly increased growth under stress.
- Intervention effect One millimolar silicon significantly increased stressed maize grain yield by about 38%.
- Intervention effect Increasing silicon from 1 to 2 mM did not significantly alter growth or grain yield.
- Intervention effect One millimolar silicon at 50% field capacity increased photosystem II photochemical efficiency by 33%.
- Intervention effect One millimolar silicon at 50% field capacity increased electron transport rate by 31%.
- Intervention effect Silicon significantly reduced proline accumulation at 50% field capacity.
- Intervention effect Silicon increased total soluble sugar content at 50% field capacity.
- Intervention effect One millimolar silicon significantly increased shoot N content.
- Recommendation The authors recommend 1 mM silicon priming under water deficit.