Claim · model-written summary
Salinity decreased transpiration rate in potato compared with non-stress irrigation.
- Taxon
- Potato
Solanum tuberosumt0 - Material
- cv. Agriae3
- Treatment
- irrigation salinitye2
- Outcome
- transpiration ratee1
- Direction
- decreasede1
- Comparator
- non-stresse2
- Setting
- field experimente3
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Verbatim
t0“Potato response”
e1“salinity decreased transpiration rate, stomatal conductance”
e2“irrigation salinity [0.3 (non-stress), 5, 8 and 12 dS”
e3“In this field experiment the effects of silicone compounds on potato (cv. Agria) performance”
Title
Mohammad Kafi; Jafar Nabati; Bijan Saadatian; et al. Italian Journal of Agronomy 2019. doi:10.4081/ija.2019.1182
Other claims from this paper (16)
- Intervention effect Salinity decreased stomatal conductance in potato compared with non-stress irrigation.
- Intervention effect Salinity decreased quantum yield in potato compared with non-stress irrigation.
- Intervention effect Salinity decreased membrane stability index in potato compared with non-stress irrigation.
- Intervention effect Salinity decreased carotenoids in potato compared with non-stress irrigation.
- Intervention effect Salinity decreased tuber number per plant in potato compared with non-stress irrigation.
- Intervention effect Salinity decreased tuber yield in potato compared with non-stress irrigation.
- Intervention effect Salinity improved water use efficiency in potato compared with non-stress irrigation.
- Intervention effect Salinity improved tuber dry matter percentage in potato compared with non-stress irrigation.
- Observation Foliar application of anti-stress compounds positively affected quantum yield in potato.
- Observation Foliar application of anti-stress compounds positively affected carotenoids content in potato.
- Observation Foliar application of anti-stress compounds positively affected DPPH radical scavenging activity in potato.
- Observation Foliar application of anti-stress compounds positively affected tuber number per plant in potato.
- Observation Foliar application of anti-stress compounds positively affected tuber yield in potato.
- Observation Foliar application of anti-stress compounds positively affected tuber dry matter percentage in potato.
- Observation Silicon compounds ameliorated salinity effects more evidently than the other compounds, especially sodium silicate nanoparticles.
- Recommendation Silicon application could be an effective strategy for reducing salinity effects, and its efficiency increases when applied as nanoparticles.