Claim · model-written summary
Exogenous silicon increased K, Na and Ca concentrations in tomato tissues under low phosphorus.
- Taxon
- tomato
Solanum lycopersicumt0 - Organ / stage
- roots, leaves, and stemse0
- Treatment
- exogenous Si applicatione1
- Outcome
- concentrations of most essential elements (K, Na, Cae0
- Direction
- enhancede0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Verbatim
e0“enhanced the concentrations of most essential elements (K, Na, Ca, Mg, Fe, and Mn) in different tissues (roots, leaves, and stems)”
e1“exogenous Si application under LP stress”
t0“tomato”
Title
Yi Zhang; Ying Liang; Xin Zhao; et al. Agronomy 2019. doi:10.3390/agronomy9110733
Other claims from this paper (15)
- Intervention effect Low phosphorus reduced tomato shoot fresh and dry weights.
- Intervention effect Low phosphorus impaired tomato root morphology.
- Association Low-phosphorus growth inhibition was associated with lower photosynthetic pigment, net photosynthesis and stomatal conductance.
- Association Low-phosphorus growth inhibition was associated with lower transpiration rate and water use efficiency.
- Intervention effect Silicon alleviated low-phosphorus decreases in growth and physiological parameters.
- Intervention effect Silicon raised net photosynthetic rate by 65.2%.
- Intervention effect Silicon significantly raised biomass accumulation.
- Intervention effect Low phosphorus increased reactive oxygen species accumulation.
- Mechanism Increased reactive oxygen species under low phosphorus elevated lipid peroxidation.
- Intervention effect Silicon lowered ROS and malondialdehyde levels under phosphorus stress.
- Intervention effect Silicon increased superoxide dismutase, peroxidase and catalase activity.
- Intervention effect Silicon increased proline, soluble sugar and soluble protein concentrations under low phosphorus.
- Intervention effect Silicon increased free amino acid and organic acid concentrations under low phosphorus.
- Intervention effect Exogenous silicon increased silicon uptake under low phosphorus.
- Intervention effect Exogenous silicon increased Mg, Fe and Mn concentrations in tomato tissues under low phosphorus.