Claim · model-written summary
Selenium at 4 and 6 mg/L enhanced fruiting in cucumber under stress and non-stress conditions.
- Taxon
- cucumber
Cucumis sativust0 - Treatment
- 4and 6mg/L seleniume6
- Outcome
- fruitinge6
- Direction
- enhancede6
- Setting
- stress and non-stress conditionse6
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Verbatim
t0“Protective role of selenium on cucumber (Cucumis sativusL.) exposed to cadmium and lead stress during reproductive stage”
e6“the application of 4and 6mg/L selenium in stress and non-stress conditions enhanced fruiting”
Title
Leila Shekari; Hosein Aroiee; Amin Mirshekari; et al. Journal of Plant Nutrition 2019. doi:10.1080/01904167.2018.1554075
Other claims from this paper (10)
- Intervention effect Cadmium and lead stress delayed flowering in cucumber.
- Intervention effect Cadmium and lead stress changed flower sex toward male flowers in cucumber.
- Intervention effect Cadmium and lead treatment delayed fruiting in cucumber.
- Intervention effect Cadmium and lead treatment significantly decreased fruit growth indices and total yield in cucumber.
- Intervention effect Adding selenium to the culture medium accelerated flowering in cucumber.
- Intervention effect Adding selenium to the culture medium led to the emergence of more male flowers in cucumber.
- Intervention effect Selenium increased the ratio of female to male flowers in cucumber plants under stress.
- Intervention effect Selenium at 6 mg/L had the highest effect among the tested selenium concentrations on cucumber.
- Intervention effect Selenium at 4 and 6 mg/L significantly increased fruit number, fruit length and fruit diameter in cucumber.
- Intervention effect Selenium at 4 and 6 mg/L significantly increased single fruit weight and total yield in cucumber.