Claim · model-written summary
Under the same salinity and silicon comparison, Na concentration fell by 10%.
- Taxon
- wheat
Triticum aestivumt0 - Outcome
- Nae0
- Direction
- decreasede0
- Value
- 10e0
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Verbatim
e0“Na and proline concentrations decreased by 10 and 23%, respectively”
t0“wheat”
Title
Application of silicon ameliorated salinity stress and improved wheat yield
A Ibrahim M; M Merwad A; A Elnaka E; et al. Journal of Soil Science and Environmental Management 2016. doi:10.5897/jssem2016.0571
Other claims from this paper (13)
- Intervention effect Photosynthetic pigments decreased significantly as salinity increased.
- Intervention effect N, P and K concentrations decreased significantly as salinity increased.
- Intervention effect Biomass decreased significantly as salinity increased.
- Intervention effect Grain yield decreased significantly as salinity increased.
- Intervention effect Without silicon, biomass decreased by 37% between 2.74 and 13.38 dSm-1 salinity.
- Intervention effect Without silicon, grain yield decreased by 30% between 2.74 and 13.38 dSm-1 salinity.
- Intervention effect Na concentration increased with salinity.
- Intervention effect Proline concentration increased with salinity.
- Intervention effect Silicon supply alleviated salinity stress.
- Intervention effect Silicon supply enhanced plant growth.
- Intervention effect At 5.96 dSm-1 salinity, increasing silicon from 0.0 to 6.3 mg Si/10 plants raised biomass by 32%.
- Intervention effect At 5.96 dSm-1 salinity, increasing silicon from 0.0 to 6.3 mg Si/10 plants raised grain yield by 54%.
- Intervention effect Under the same salinity and silicon comparison, proline concentration fell by 23%.