Claim · model-written summary
Low rate ZnO nanoparticles gave no or negligible grain Zn increase over water.
- Treatment
- ZnO-NPse0
- Outcome
- grain Zn concentratione0
- Direction
- no increasee0
- Qualifier
- 45.2 mg Zn L –1e0
- Comparator
- deionized watere0
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Verbatim
t0“maize cultivars”
e0“Applying ten-fold less Zn (at rate of 45.2 mg Zn L –1 ) plus urea in the form of ZnO-NPs, Zn-CNPs, or ZnSO 4 resulted in no increase, or a negligible increase, in grain Zn concentration compared with deionized water.”
Title
Yan-Fang Xue; Xiao-Jing Li; Wei Yan; et al. Frontiers in Plant Science 2023. doi:10.3389/fpls.2023.1144514
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- Intervention effect Foliar cocktail increased grain Zn concentration from 13.8 to 22.1 mg kg –1.
- Intervention effect Foliar cocktail increased grain Fe concentration from 17.2 to 22.1 mg kg –1.
- Intervention effect Foliar cocktail increased grain Se concentration from 21.4 to 413.5 ug kg –1.
- Intervention effect Foliar cocktail increased grain N concentration from 13.8 to 14.7 g kg –1.
- Intervention effect Foliar cocktail caused no grain yield trade-off.
- Association Grain yield was significantly negatively correlated with grain nutrient concentrations.
- Association Grain Zn and Fe increases were greatest in low yielding Zhengdan958 grown in Linyi.
- Intervention effect Foliar cocktail significantly decreased grain phytic acid and its Fe and Zn ratios.
- Recommendation The authors call for maize varieties combining high yield and grain nutritional quality.