Claim · model-written summary
NPK plus Zn increased wheat grain yield by 78% relative to control.
- Taxon
- Wheat
Triticum aestivume1 - Treatment
- NPK+Zn balanced nutritione0
- Outcome
- grain yielde0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Value
- 78%e0
- Comparator
- controle0
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Verbatim
e0“NPK+Zn balanced nutrition increased plant height, spike length, photosynthetic rate, water use efficiency, transpiration rate, stomatal conductance, and grain yield by 13%, 15%, 44%, 60%, 63%, 39%, and 78%, respectively, compared with the control”
e1“Wheat was used as a test crop”
Title
Abeer Nawaz; Muhammad Amjad Bashir; Wazir Ahmed; et al. Frontiers in Plant Science 2024. doi:10.3389/fpls.2024.1363248
Other claims from this paper (19)
- Intervention effect NPK plus Zn increased wheat plant height by 13% relative to control.
- Intervention effect NPK plus Zn increased wheat spike length by 15% relative to control.
- Intervention effect NPK plus Zn increased wheat photosynthetic rate by 44% relative to control.
- Intervention effect NPK plus Zn increased wheat water use efficiency by 60% relative to control.
- Intervention effect NPK plus Zn increased wheat transpiration rate by 63% relative to control.
- Intervention effect NPK plus Zn increased wheat stomatal conductance by 39% relative to control.
- Intervention effect Combined NP, K and Zn improved nitrogen recovery efficiency by 230% relative to NP alone.
- Intervention effect Combined NP, K and Zn improved phosphorus recovery efficiency by 136% relative to NP alone.
- Intervention effect Combined NP, K and Zn improved potassium recovery efficiency by 135% relative to NP alone.
- Intervention effect Combined NP, K and Zn improved zinc recovery efficiency by 136% relative to NP alone.
- Intervention effect Potassium agronomic use efficiency was 71% greater than with NP alone.
- Intervention effect Phosphorus agronomic use efficiency was 72% greater than with NP alone.
- Intervention effect Nitrogen agronomic use efficiency was 70% greater than with NP alone.
- Intervention effect Zinc agronomic use efficiency was 72% greater than with NP alone.
- Intervention effect NPUE was reduced by 5% relative to NP alone.
- Intervention effect PPUE was reduced by 3% relative to NP alone.
- Intervention effect A second NPUE entry was reduced by 3% relative to NP alone, as stated.
- Intervention effect ZnPUE was reduced by 5% relative to NP alone.
- Recommendation The authors recommend potassium and zinc in wheat nutrition management for higher yield and produce quality.