Claim · model-written summary
Sweet corn takes up and accumulates less toxic metals than other crops.
- Taxon
- sweet corne5
- Outcome
- uptake and accumulation of toxic metalse5
- Direction
- lesse5
- Comparator
- other cropse5
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageInteractorInteractor roleSecond interactorSecond interactor roleTreatmentSettingValueQualifier
Verbatim
e5“uptake and accumulation of toxic metals by sweet corn is generally less than other crops”
Title
Sharon B. Hornick American Journal of Alternative Agriculture 1988. doi:10.1017/s0889189300002435
Other claims from this paper (6)
- Intervention effect Organic amendments greatly increased the water content of sand and gravel spoils compared with fertilized controls.
- Intervention effect Manure-treated spoil plots had a higher water content than compost-treated spoils.
- Intervention effect Grain and stalk yields of sweet corn were highest for the manure-treated plots in a drought year.
- Observation Organic materials had a low heavy metal content, which the authors judge safe for use as soil conditioners.
- Association The kind and rate of organic amendment, rainfall and water content determined the final nutrient composition of sweet corn stalks, leaves and grain.
- Association The kind and rate of organic amendment, rainfall and water content determined grain and stalk yield of sweet corn.