Claim · model-written summary
Foliar Si increased whole-plant dry biomass yield in cucumber.
- Taxon
- cucumber
Cucumis sativuse0 - Treatment
- foliar application of Sie0
- Outcome
- dry biomass yielde0
- Direction
- gainse0
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Verbatim
e0“The foliar application of Si favored its absorption and accumulation in the cucumber plant, obtaining increases that promoted gains in the dry biomass yield of the whole plant”
Title
Maxuel Fellipe Nunes Xavier; Rilner Alves Flores; Dennis Ricardo Cabral Cruz; et al. Journal of Plant Nutrition 2025. doi:10.1080/01904167.2025.2477268
Other claims from this paper (6)
- Intervention effect Foliar Si increased absorption and accumulation in cucumber.
- Intervention effect Foliar Si increased pigment production, nitrogen balance index, and chlorophyll in cucumber at 37 DAT.
- Intervention effect Foliar Si reduced the anthocyanin index in cucumber at 37 DAT.
- Intervention effect Foliar silicon fertilization increased silicon content in cucumber.
- Intervention effect Silicon application increased cucumber productive yield by 25% versus control.
- Intervention effect The silicon program yielded positive differential profit of US$ 362 ha−1.