Claim · model-written summary
Soil-applied silicon lowered final spot blotch severity.
- Taxon
- wheat
Triticum aestivumt0 - Treatment
- Soil-applied silicont0
- Outcome
- final spot blotch severitye0
- Direction
- lowere0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Verbatim
e0“the final spot blotch severity was lower”
t0“Soil-applied silicon decreases severity of wheat spot blotch on silicon-deficient soils”
t1“Soil-applied silicon decreases severity of wheat spot blotch on silicon-deficient soils”
Title
Soil-applied silicon decreases severity of wheat spot blotch on silicon-deficient soils
Luiz Antônio Zanão Júnior; Renildes Lúcio Ferreira Fontes; Paulo Henrique Moreira Coelho; et al. Revista Brasileira de Ciência do Solo 2010. doi:10.1590/s0100-06832010000200013
Other claims from this paper (7)
- Observation The two soils showed no significant difference in measured responses.
- Intervention effect Soil-applied silicon increased the wheat spot blotch incubation period.
- Intervention effect Soil-applied silicon increased wheat shoot dry matter yield.
- Intervention effect Soil-applied silicon increased leaf silicon content.
- Intervention effect Soil-applied silicon reduced the area under the spot blotch progress curve.
- Intervention effect Soil-applied silicon reduced leaf insertion angle.
- Intervention effect Foliar silicon application produced responses similar to control plants.