Claim · model-written summary
Combined soil and foliar zinc application gave significantly higher total zinc uptake in long-duration wheat cultivars than soil application alone, at 960 g/ha.
- Taxon
- wheat
Triticum aestivume0 - Material
- longe0
- Treatment
- soil + foliar application of Zne0
- Outcome
- Total Zn uptake by wheat (grain + straw)e0
- Direction
- highere0
- Value
- 960 g/hae0
- Comparator
- soil applicatione0
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Verbatim
e0“Total Zn uptake by wheat (grain + straw) cultivars with soil + foliar application of Zn was significantly higher in short (933 g/ha) and long (960 g/ha) duration cultivars compared to that with soil application”
Title
Cotton Crop in Changing Climate
A. Shikha; P. Maharana; K. K. Singh; et al. Current Science 2018. doi:10.18520/cs/v115/i5/948-954
Other claims from this paper (4)
- Intervention effect Soil zinc application raised wheat grain zinc content from 38.86 to 77.17 mg/kg.
- Intervention effect Soil plus foliar zinc application raised wheat grain zinc content to 76.49 mg/kg.
- Intervention effect Combined soil and foliar zinc application gave significantly higher total zinc uptake in short-duration wheat cultivars than soil application alone, at 933 g/ha.
- Intervention effect Combined soil and foliar zinc fertilizer improved apparent zinc recovery in wheat.