Claim · model-written summary
Higher Cu levels significantly reduced leaf Zn concentration.
- Taxon
- wheat plants
Triticum aestivumt0 - Organ / stage
- leavese0
- Treatment
- higher levels of Cu (2.0 and 2.5 mg kg(-1))e0
- Outcome
- Zn concentratione0
- Direction
- decreasede0
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Verbatim
e0“However, Zn concentration decreased significantly at higher levels of Cu (2.0 and 2.5 mg kg(-1)) in leaves and remained unaffected in the grain and straw.”
t0“wheat plants (Triticum aestivum L.)”
Title
Ratan Kumar; N K Mehrotra; B D Nautiyal; et al. PubMed 2009
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- Intervention effect plant height rose with copper levels and peaked at 1.5 mg kg(-1) Cu.
- Intervention effect fresh and dry matter yield rose with copper levels and peaked at 1.5 mg kg(-1) Cu.
- Intervention effect percent dry matter rose with copper levels and peaked at 1.5 mg kg(-1) Cu.
- Intervention effect Tiller number was lowest at 1.5 mg kg(-1) Cu.
- Intervention effect Grain yield increased 62.9% at 1.5 mg kg(-1) Cu versus control.
- Intervention effect Copper treatments increased thousand grain weight to 33.93 to 41.35 g versus 32.58 g in control.
- Intervention effect Harvest index increased to 39.42 to 47.73 across treatments versus 35.92 in control.
- Observation Thousand grain weight and harvest index were highest at 1.5 mg kg(-1) copper.
- Intervention effect Cu concentration in leaves increased with Cu application.
- Intervention effect Cu concentration in grain increased with Cu application.
- Intervention effect Cu concentration in straw increased with Cu application.
- Intervention effect Cu application significantly reduced leaf Fe concentration by 10.3% at 2.5 mg kg(-1) Cu.
- Intervention effect Cu application did not influence Fe concentration in grain.
- Intervention effect Cu application did not influence Fe concentration in straw.
- Intervention effect Cu application did not affect Mn concentration in studied plant parts.
- Intervention effect Zn concentration in grain remained unaffected at higher Cu levels.
- Intervention effect Zn concentration in straw remained unaffected at higher Cu levels.