Claim · model-written summary
The hydrogel increased soil field capacity, wilting point and maximum available content, from 23% to 42% of total soil moisture.
- Treatment
- Hydrogele1
- Outcome
- field capacity, wilting point and maximum available contente1
- Direction
- increasinge1
- Value
- from 23% to 42%e1
- Comparator
- untreated Controlse3
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Verbatim
e0“potted grapevines”
e1“The application of Hydrogel significantly affected soil hydrology, increasing field capacity, wilting point and maximum available content (from 23% to 42% of total soil moisture)”
e3“as compared to untreated Controls (CON)”
Title
Tommaso Frioni; Pier Giorgio Bonicelli; Clara Ripa; et al. Plant Physiology and Biochemistry 2025. doi:10.1016/j.plaphy.2025.109775
Other claims from this paper (6)
- Intervention effect Soil water potential decline was postponed by about two days in hydrogel-treated vines under reduced irrigation.
- Intervention effect In hydrogel-treated vines, leaf proline and hydrogen peroxide biosynthesis was reduced or prevented compared with CON.
- Intervention effect At re-watering, hydrogel-treated vines had higher photosynthetic rates by +8.95 μmol m -2 s -1.
- Intervention effect At re-watering, hydrogel-treated vines had higher Fv/Fm by +34%.
- Intervention effect At the end of the experiment, hydrogel-treated vines had a higher vine leaf area by +8.2%.
- Intervention effect At the end of the experiment, hydrogel-treated vines had a higher third internode diameter by +29.8%.