Claim · model-written summary
Foliar Ascophyllum extract increased plant dry biomass by 52%.
- Taxon
- tomato and sweet pepper
Capsicum annuum
Solanum lycopersicumt0 - Treatment
- 0.5% A. nodosum extract (AN) at 10-day intervalse0
- Outcome
- plant dry biomasse0
- Direction
- increasee0
- Value
- 52%e0
- Comparator
- controle0
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Verbatim
e0“Foliar applications of 0.5% A. nodosum extract (AN) at 10-day intervals resulted in significant (P < 0.05) increase in plant growth parameters, including plant height (40%), leaf number (50%), plant dry biomass (52%), root length (59%) and chlorophyll content (20%) compared to control”
t0“tomato and sweet pepper crops”
e1“This study evaluated the effectiveness of a commercially available Ascophyllum nodosum alkaline extract as a plant growth stimulant and defense elicitor against foliar diseases of tomato and sweet pepper caused by Xanthomonas campestris pv. vesicatoria and Alternaria solani in a tropical environment”
Title
Omar Ali; Adesh Ramsubhag; Jayaraj Jayaraman PLoS ONE 2019. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0216710
Other claims from this paper (13)
- Intervention effect Foliar Ascophyllum extract increased plant height by 40%.
- Intervention effect Foliar Ascophyllum extract increased leaf number by 50%.
- Intervention effect Foliar Ascophyllum extract increased root length by 59%.
- Intervention effect Foliar Ascophyllum extract increased chlorophyll content by 20%.
- Intervention effect Treated plants had more flower clusters and flowers.
- Intervention effect Treated plants had more fruits per cluster and higher harvested yield.
- Intervention effect Ascophyllum extract reduced disease incidence in both crops under greenhouse and field conditions.
- Intervention effect Seaweed extract with a minimum contact fungicide dose produced 60% lower disease levels.
- Intervention effect Seaweed extract with a minimum contact fungicide dose produced 57% higher yield.
- Intervention effect Ascophyllum extract induced defense enzyme activities.
- Intervention effect Ascophyllum extract affected total phenolic compound levels.
- Intervention effect Extract treated crops had higher PinII and ETR-1 expression than controls.
- Intervention effect Extract treated crops showed increased transcripts for growth hormone biosynthesis.