Claim · model-written summary
The 2 mL per gallon potassium silicate treatment gave the highest phytolith formation in strawberry.
- Taxon
- strawberry
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Fragaria ×ananassae0 - Material
- Flavorfest and Rutgers Scarlet TMe0
- Treatment
- 2 mL per gallone1
- Outcome
- phytolith formatione2
- Direction
- higheste2
- Setting
- high-tunnel field conditionse0
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Verbatim
e0“Two strawberry cultivars (Flavorfest and Rutgers Scarlet TM) grown under high-tunnel field conditions were foliar-sprayed with different doses of potassium silicate (K 2 SiO 3 ) (0, 2, 3, and 4 mL per gallon of water)”
e1“The 2 mL per gallon treatment”
e2“showed the highest silicon concentration in leaves and phytolith formation”
Title
Amaranatha R. Vennapusa; Rosalyn Battle; Surya Krishna Sakthivel; et al. PeerJ 2026. doi:10.7717/peerj.21151
Other claims from this paper (6)
- Intervention effect The 2 mL per gallon potassium silicate treatment gave the highest silicon concentration in strawberry leaves.
- Observation Silicon showed limited translocation to the roots of strawberry plants treated with potassium silicate.
- Intervention effect The 2 mL per gallon treatment significantly increased strawberry plant width and marketable yield.
- Intervention effect The effective potassium silicate concentration (2 mL/gallon) reduced Botrytis cinerea growth under in vitro conditions.
- Intervention effect The effective potassium silicate concentration (2 mL/gallon) lowered infection on postharvest-treated strawberry fruits.
- Intervention effect The effective potassium silicate concentration coincided with enhanced expression of silicon transporter genes in strawberry.