Claim · model-written summary
At moderate and severe water stress, 30% vermicompost increased leaf dry weight.
- Taxon
- Chickpea
Cicer arietinumt0 - Treatment
- 30% vermicomposte0
- Outcome
- leaf dry weighte0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Qualifier
- moderate and severe water stress conditionse0
- Comparator
- control levele0
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Verbatim
t0“Chickpea (Cicer arietinumL.cv. karaj)”
e0“The addition of 30% vermicompost under moderate and severe water stress conditions significantly increased plant height, number of pods, leaf area, leaf dry weight, carotenoids, and water-use efficiency over that of the control level.”
Title
Hamzeh Amiri; Ahmad Ismaili; Saeed Reza Hosseinzadeh Compost Science & Utilization 2017. doi:10.1080/1065657x.2016.1249313
Other claims from this paper (8)
- Intervention effect Under non-stress conditions vermicompost increased chickpea height, pod number and leaf area.
- Intervention effect Under non-stress conditions vermicompost increased stem, leaf and pod dry weight.
- Intervention effect Under non-stress conditions vermicompost increased chlorophyll a, carotenoid and total chlorophyll.
- Intervention effect Under non-stress conditions vermicompost increased CO2 assimilation, internal CO2 and water-use efficiency.
- Intervention effect At moderate and severe water stress, 30% vermicompost increased chickpea height, pod number and leaf area.
- Intervention effect At moderate and severe water stress, 30% vermicompost increased carotenoids and water-use efficiency.
- Intervention effect The authors conclude that vermicompost improved chickpea morphological features and quality.
- Intervention effect The authors conclude that vermicompost did not positively influence chickpea physiology under moderate and severe water deficit.