Claim · model-written summary
K, Ca and Si nanoparticles, alone or combined, improved total yield and its components in cucumber.
- Taxon
- cucumber
Cucumis sativuse1 - Treatment
- K, Ca, and Si nanoparticles, either alone or in combinatione6
- Outcome
- total yield and its componentse6
- Direction
- improvede6
- Qualifier
- including fruit weight and the number of fruitse6
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Verbatim
e1“The combined application of Ca, K, and Si significantly improved the growth of drought-stressed cucumber plants compared to untreated plants”
e6“the use of K, Ca, and Si nanoparticles, either alone or in combination, notably improved total yield and its components, including fruit weight and the number of fruits”
Title
Mohamed EL-MOGY; Emad A. ABDELDAYM; Suzy M. ABDELAZIZ; et al. Notulae Botanicae Horti Agrobotanici Cluj-Napoca 2025. doi:10.15835/nbha53214470
Other claims from this paper (11)
- Intervention effect Combined Ca, K and Si nanoparticles improved growth of drought-stressed cucumber in a field experiment compared with untreated plants.
- Intervention effect Ca, K and Si nanoparticles enhanced total chlorophyll levels, chlorophyll fluorescence and photosynthetic rates in drought-stressed cucumber.
- Intervention effect Ca, K and Si nanoparticles enhanced water use efficiency in drought-stressed cucumber.
- Intervention effect Ca, K and Si nanoparticles increased leaf indole-acetic acid accumulation in drought-stressed cucumber.
- Intervention effect Ca, K and Si nanoparticles increased leaf magnesium, potassium and calcium in drought-stressed cucumber.
- Intervention effect Ca, K and Si nanoparticles increased leaf phosphorus and nitrogen in drought-stressed cucumber.
- Intervention effect Foliar K, Ca and Si nanoparticles increased antioxidant enzyme activity in drought-stressed cucumber.
- Intervention effect Combined Ca, K and Si nanoparticles significantly reduced malondialdehyde and abscisic acid levels in cucumber compared with the control treatment.
- Intervention effect Combined Ca, K and Si nanoparticles increased carbohydrates, total soluble solids and ascorbic acid in cucumber fruit compared with untreated plants.
- Intervention effect Combined Ca, K and Si nanoparticles increased total phenol content in cucumber fruit compared with untreated plants.
- Intervention effect Combined Ca, K and Si nanoparticles reduced cucurbitacin content in cucumber fruit compared with untreated plants.