Claim · model-written summary
The 0.18 mM salicylic acid treatment increased female flowers, stem diameter, and leaf number.
- Taxon
- cucumber
Cucumis sativust0 - Treatment
- SA concentrationse0
- Outcome
- number of female flowers per cucumber plant, the plant stem diameter and the leaf number per plante0
- Direction
- increasede0
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Verbatim
e0“these SA concentrations increased the number of female flowers per cucumber plant, the plant stem diameter and the leaf number per plant”
t0“CUCUMBER PLANTS”
Title
GROWTH AND YIELD OF CUCUMBER PLANTS DERIVED FROM SEEDS PRETREATED WITH SALICYLIC ACID
Journal of Biological Chemistry and Environmental Sciences 2017. doi:10.21608/bces.2017.470907
Other claims from this paper (8)
- Intervention effect Planting date did not affect leaf chlorophyll a content.
- Intervention effect Planting date did not affect the number of female flowers, stem diameter, or leaf number.
- Observation The effect of planting date on fruit yield was inconsistent across two years.
- Intervention effect Seed pretreatment with 0.07 mM salicylic acid elevated leaf chlorophyll content.
- Intervention effect Seed pretreatment with 0.18 mM salicylic acid elevated leaf chlorophyll content.
- Intervention effect The 0.07 mM salicylic acid treatment increased female flowers, stem diameter, and leaf number.
- Intervention effect Fruit yield was highest with 0.18 mM salicylic acid pretreatment, averaging 38.2% above control.
- Intervention effect Seed treatment with 0.29 mM salicylic acid did not affect fruit yield.