Claim · model-written summary
Nitrogen supply improved alfalfa shoot dry weight by 40%–45% in saline soil.
- Taxon
- alfalfa
Medicago sativae0 - Treatment
- N supplye0
- Outcome
- shoot dry weighte0
- Direction
- improvede0
- Value
- 40%–45%e0
- Setting
- salt-affected soile0
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Verbatim
e0“N supply significantly improved shoot dry weight by 40%–45%, root dry weight by 23%–29%, and shoot N content by 10%–28% for alfalfa grown in salt-affected soil”
Title
Weifan Wan; Qian Liu; Caihong Zhang; et al. Frontiers in Plant Science 2023. doi:10.3389/fpls.2023.1126017
Other claims from this paper (11)
- Intervention effect Salt stress significantly decreased alfalfa biomass by 43%–86%.
- Intervention effect Salt stress significantly decreased alfalfa nitrogen content by 58%–91%.
- Intervention effect Salt stress reduced alfalfa nitrogen fixation ability above the stated salt level.
- Intervention effect Salt stress reduced alfalfa atmospheric nitrogen contribution above the stated salt level.
- Intervention effect Salt stress inhibited alfalfa nodule formation and fixation efficiency.
- Intervention effect Salt stress decreased alfalfa crude protein by 31%–37%.
- Intervention effect Nitrogen supply improved alfalfa root dry weight by 23%–29% in saline soil.
- Intervention effect Nitrogen supply improved alfalfa shoot nitrogen content by 10%–28% in saline soil.
- Intervention effect Nitrogen supply increased alfalfa atmospheric nitrogen contribution by 47% under salt stress.
- Intervention effect Nitrogen supply increased alfalfa nitrogen fixation by 60% under salt stress.
- Recommendation The authors recommend optimal nitrogen fertilizer to alleviate growth and fixation losses in salt-affected alfalfa soils.