Claim · model-written summary
Foliar spray of 50 ppm cytokinin increased sunflower head diameter over no cytokinin
- Taxon
- sunflower
Helianthus annuust0 - Treatment
- foliar spray of 50 ppm cytokinine3
- Outcome
- head diametere3
- Direction
- increasee3
- Value
- 14.44 cme3
- Comparator
- no application of cytokinine3
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Verbatim
t0“yields of sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.)”
e3“The foliar spray of 50 ppm cytokinin resulted in increase in head diameter (14.44 cm), number of seeds/capitulam (890.0), test weight (43.06 g), seed yield (2.36 t/ha) and stalk yield (3.353 t/ha) and harvest index (41.25%) over no application of cytokinin”
Title
B. B. Supriya; GC Mishra; Sagar Maitra; et al. Journal of Pharmacognosy and Phytochemistry 2020
Other claims from this paper (13)
- Intervention effect Fertilization with 125% RDF + Azotobacter + S gave the highest capitulum diameter in sunflower
- Intervention effect Fertilization with 125% RDF + Azotobacter + S gave the highest number of seeds per capitulum in sunflower
- Intervention effect Fertilization with 125% RDF + Azotobacter + S gave the highest head diameter in sunflower
- Intervention effect Fertilization with 125% RDF + Azotobacter + S gave the highest test weight in sunflower
- Intervention effect Fertilization with 125% RDF + Azotobacter + S gave the highest seed yield in sunflower
- Intervention effect Fertilization with 125% RDF + Azotobacter + S gave the highest stalk yield in sunflower
- Intervention effect Foliar spray of 50 ppm cytokinin increased sunflower number of seeds per capitulum over no cytokinin
- Intervention effect Foliar spray of 50 ppm cytokinin increased sunflower test weight over no cytokinin
- Intervention effect Foliar spray of 50 ppm cytokinin increased sunflower seed yield over no cytokinin
- Intervention effect Foliar spray of 50 ppm cytokinin increased sunflower stalk yield over no cytokinin
- Intervention effect Foliar spray of 50 ppm cytokinin increased sunflower harvest index over no cytokinin
- Intervention effect The interaction of 125% RDF + Azotobacter + S with 50 ppm cytokinin positively increased sunflower seed yield
- Recommendation The authors recommend the combined nutrient and cytokinin practice as production technology for sunflower in South Odisha