Claim · model-written summary
Calcium chloride addition did not significantly affect plant growth.
- Taxon
- cowpea
Vigna unguiculatat0 - Treatment
- CaCl2e0
- Outcome
- plant growthe0
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Verbatim
e0“The addition of CaCl2 in the growth medium did not significantly affect plant growth”
t0“Supplemental Ca2+ does not improve growth but it affects nutrient uptake in NaCl-stressed cowpea plants”
Title
Francisco Valderez Augusto Guimarães; Claudivan Feitosa de Lacerda; Elton Camelo Marques; et al. Brazilian Journal of Plant Physiology 2012. doi:10.1590/s1677-04202012000100003
Other claims from this paper (8)
- Intervention effect Salinity significantly reduced cowpea vegetative growth.
- Intervention effect Calcium sulfate had a moderate beneficial effect on growth.
- Intervention effect Salinity increased plant sodium, potassium and chloride contents.
- Intervention effect Salinity increased plant nitrogen and phosphorus contents.
- Intervention effect Salinity decreased plant calcium and magnesium contents.
- Intervention effect Higher calcium concentration decreased plant sodium and magnesium contents.
- Intervention effect Higher calcium concentration increased plant calcium, potassium and phosphorus contents.
- Mechanism Supplemental calcium may alleviate sodium toxicity and improve nutrient balance, but cannot overcome osmotic effects of total salt.