Claim · model-written summary
Calcium silicate increased rice silicon content versus untreated plants.
- Taxon
- rice
Oryza sativae0 - Treatment
- calcium silicatee0
- Outcome
- Si contente0
- Direction
- increasee0
- Comparator
- non-treated plantse0
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Verbatim
e0“There was a significant increase in the Si content of rice plants supplemented with calcium silicate as compared to non-treated plants”
Title
J.K. Sidhu; M.J. Stout; D.C. Blouin; et al. Bulletin of Entomological Research 2013. doi:10.1017/s0007485313000369
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