Claim · model-written summary
Mepiquat chloride increased chlorophyll content and NDVI relative to control.
- Taxon
- cotton
Gossypium hirsutumt0 - Treatment
- 0.015% mepiquat chloride (MC)e0
- Outcome
- chlorophyll content and normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI)e0
- Direction
- highere0
- Comparator
- controle0
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Verbatim
e0“chlorophyll content and normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) were recorded higher in 0.015% mepiquat chloride (MC) applied treatments than control.”
t0“cotton”
Title
K. Dharani; V. Ravichandran; S. Anandakumar; et al. International Journal of Plant & Soil Science 2022. doi:10.9734/ijpss/2022/v34i2031198
Other claims from this paper (4)
- Intervention effect Mepiquat chloride reduced leaf area, plant height and total dry weight relative to control.
- Intervention effect Mepiquat chloride reduced boll number relative to control.
- Intervention effect Mepiquat chloride followed by sodium chlorate significantly increased seed cotton yield, reaching 25.22% relative to control.
- Recommendation The authors recommend MC followed by SC for cotton canopy management and mechanical harvesting.