Claim · model-written summary
Lower silicon rates improved leaf Cu, Mn and Fe content.
- Treatment
- Silicon application at lower ratese0
- Outcome
- Cu, Mn, Fe and Zn content in leavese0
- Direction
- improvede0
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Verbatim
e0“Silicon application at lower rates improved Cu, Mn, Fe and Zn content in leaves and vice-versa”
t0“gladiolus (Gladiolus grandiflorus Hort.)”
Title
T. Thakur; J. Kaur; K.K. Dhatt; et al. Journal of Applied Horticulture 2025. doi:10.37855/jah.2025.v27i01.24
Other claims from this paper (18)
- Intervention effect Increasing silicon dose improved vegetative and floricultural traits under both application methods.
- Intervention effect Basal silicon application was more beneficial than foliar application.
- Intervention effect Basal silicon at 100 kg ha-1 produced spike emergence at 101.68 days.
- Intervention effect Basal silicon at 100 kg ha-1 produced flowering at 122.42 days.
- Intervention effect Basal silicon at 100 kg ha-1 gave maximum plant height of 103.91 cm.
- Intervention effect Basal silicon at 100 kg ha-1 gave maximum spike length of 79.88 cm.
- Intervention effect Basal silicon at 100 kg ha-1 gave maximum spike weight of 15.51 g.
- Intervention effect Basal silicon at 100 kg ha-1 gave vase life of 8.75 days.
- Intervention effect Basal silicon at 100 kg ha-1 gave silicon content of 2.04%.
- Intervention effect Foliar silicon at 3% gave spike emergence at 101.53 days.
- Intervention effect Foliar silicon at 3% gave flowering at 122.28 days.
- Intervention effect Foliar silicon at 3% gave maximum plant height of 99.33 cm.
- Intervention effect Foliar silicon at 3% gave maximum spike length of 82.18 cm.
- Intervention effect Foliar silicon at 3% gave maximum floret size of 9.73 cm.
- Intervention effect Foliar silicon at 3% gave maximum spike weight of 15.51 g.
- Intervention effect Foliar silicon at 3% gave maximum silicon content of 1.88%.
- Intervention effect Combined soil and foliar silicon had the strongest effect on all observed parameters.
- Recommendation The authors recommend basal silicon at 100 kg ha-1 plus a 3% foliar spray at the third and sixth leaf stages.