Claim · model-written summary
Zinc and sulfur coated urea improved potassium and nitrogen uptake and nitrogen use efficiency.
- Taxon
- wheat
Triticum aestivumt0 - Treatment
- ZCU and SCUe0
- Outcome
- K and N uptake, higher nitrogen use efficiency (NUE)e0
- Direction
- improvede0
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Verbatim
t0“wheat”
e0“with ZCU and SCU was also linked with improved K and N uptake, higher nitrogen use efficiency (NUE)”
Title
Muhammad Umer Chattha; Fiza Fatima; Imran Khan; et al. Italian Journal of Agronomy 2024. doi:10.4081/ija.2024.2219
Other claims from this paper (12)
- Intervention effect Salinity stress reduced wheat yield.
- Intervention effect Salinity stress impaired leaf water status and reduced photosynthetic pigments and osmolyte accumulation.
- Intervention effect Salinity stress reduced potassium and nitrogen uptake.
- Intervention effect Salinity stress increased sodium and chloride uptake.
- Intervention effect Salinity stress increased hydrogen peroxide, malondialdehyde and electrolyte leakage accumulation.
- Intervention effect Zinc coated urea increased wheat yield.
- Intervention effect Zinc coated urea enhanced photosynthetic pigments, leaf water status and antioxidant activities.
- Intervention effect Zinc coated urea enhanced osmolyte accumulation.
- Intervention effect Zinc coated urea reduced hydrogen peroxide, malondialdehyde and electrolyte leakage accumulation.
- Intervention effect Zinc and sulfur coated urea significantly increased wheat growth and yield.
- Intervention effect Zinc and sulfur coated urea reduced sodium and chloride concentrations.
- Recommendation Zinc coated urea could improve wheat productivity under saline conditions.