Claim · model-written summary
Si significantly ameliorated the osmotic adjustment and antioxidant capacity of tomato plants, alleviating low-temperature stress.
- Taxon
- tomato plants
Solanum lycopersicume4 - Treatment
- Si applicatione4
- Outcome
- osmotic adjustment and antioxidant capacitye5
- Direction
- amelioratede5
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Verbatim
e4“Both concentrations of Si application can promote the growth and biomass accumulation of tomato plants under low temperature conditions”
e5“Moreover, it significantly ameliorated the osmotic adjustment and antioxidant capacity of the plants, thereby alleviating the low-temperature stress”
Title
Fan Zhang; Yihong Zhao; Yuanbo Zhang; et al. Horticulturae 2024. doi:10.3390/horticulturae11010004
Other claims from this paper (12)
- Intervention effect Low-temperature stress decreased tomato plant height by 46.52% compared with the control after 15 days.
- Intervention effect Low-temperature stress decreased tomato stem diameter by 42.53% compared with the control after 15 days.
- Intervention effect Low-temperature stress decreased above-ground fresh weight of tomato seedlings by 28.81% compared with the control after 15 days.
- Intervention effect Low-temperature stress decreased underground fresh weight of tomato seedlings by 28.97% compared with the control after 15 days.
- Intervention effect Low temperature up-regulated the activity of antioxidant enzymes in tomato seedlings.
- Intervention effect Low temperature up-regulated the content of osmotic adjustment substances in tomato seedlings.
- Intervention effect Low-temperature stress inhibited morphological growth, nutritional quality and fruit yield of tomato.
- Intervention effect Both Si concentrations promoted growth and biomass accumulation of tomato plants under low temperature.
- Intervention effect 50 mg L−1 ionic Si was the most effective concentration for increasing tomato yield per plant under low-temperature stress, by 22.44% compared with the control.
- Recommendation The study recommends applying 50 mg·L−1 ionic Si fertilizer to mitigate the impact of low-temperature stress on tomato plants.
- Intervention effect 50 mg·L−1 nano Si fertilizer increased tomato yield by 20.15% under normal temperature conditions.
- Intervention effect Nano Si fertilizer significantly enhanced both yield and quality of tomatoes.