Claim · model-written summary
Silicon decreased alfalfa transpiration under light and moderate water stress.
- Taxon
- alfalfa
Medicago sativae0 - Treatment
- addition of silicone0
- Outcome
- transpiration ratee0
- Direction
- decreasinge0
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Verbatim
e0“addition of silicon improved water use efficiency of alfalfa under lightly(65% of field water capacity) and moderately(50% of field water capacity) water-stressed conditions,by decreasing the transpiration rate(p0.05)”
Title
Liu Hui Acta Ecologica Sinica 2009
Other claims from this paper (9)
- Intervention effect Silicon improved alfalfa water use efficiency at 65% field capacity.
- Intervention effect Silicon improved alfalfa water use efficiency at 50% field capacity.
- Intervention effect Silicon had no reported effect on alfalfa water use efficiency at 80% field capacity.
- Intervention effect Silicon had no reported effect on alfalfa water use efficiency at 35% field capacity.
- Intervention effect Silicon significantly increased alfalfa forage biomass under moderate water stress.
- Intervention effect Silicon promoted alfalfa shoot development under moderate water stress.
- Intervention effect Silicon enhanced alfalfa height under moderate water stress.
- Intervention effect Under slight water stress, silicon enhanced shoot development but not biomass per branch.
- Association Silicon improvement of alfalfa water use efficiency depended on soil moisture.