Claim · model-written summary
Silicon addition did not improve seed quality.
- Taxon
- alfalfa
Medicago sativae1 - Treatment
- silicon additione0
- Outcome
- seed qualitye0
- Direction
- did not improvee0
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Verbatim
e0“silicon addition did not improve seed quality”
e1“Effects of silicon addition on seed germination and seedling growth of alfalfa”
Title
Effects of silicon addition on seed germination and seedling growth of alfalfa
Guo Zheng-gang Acta Pratacultural Science 2011
Other claims from this paper (12)
- Intervention effect Silicon addition did not change initial germination time.
- Intervention effect Silicon addition did not change final germination rate.
- Intervention effect Silicon addition made seeds germinate faster.
- Intervention effect Silicon addition enhanced germination index, vigor index and germination energy.
- Intervention effect Silicon addition improved seed vitality.
- Intervention effect Silicon addition significantly increased alfalfa seedling shoot length.
- Intervention effect Silicon addition did not affect alfalfa seedling root length.
- Intervention effect Silicon addition increased alfalfa seedling biomass.
- Association Silicon solution concentration was unrelated to germination index and germination energy.
- Association Silicon solution concentration was unrelated to shoot and root length.
- Association Silicon solution concentration was unrelated to seedling biomass.
- Mechanism The authors assert that silicon directly participates in alfalfa germination and seedling growth physiology.