Claim · model-written summary
Selenium fertilizer decreased alfalfa drought relief ability.
- Taxon
- alfalfa
Medicago sativae0 - Treatment
- Selenium fertilizere0
- Outcome
- drought-relief abilitye0
- Direction
- decreasede0
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Verbatim
e0“Selenium fertilizer and selenium and cobalt combining fertilizer affected the growth of underground biomass in 30~50cm soil layer obviously and decreased drought-relief ability of alfalfa”
Title
Dangling Hua Zhongguo caodi xuebao 2008
Other claims from this paper (12)
- Intervention effect Selenium spray increased the stem to leaf ratio.
- Intervention effect Combined selenium and cobalt spray increased the stem to leaf ratio.
- Intervention effect Selenium spray decreased the fresh to dry weight ratio.
- Intervention effect Combined selenium and cobalt spray decreased the fresh to dry weight ratio.
- Intervention effect Combined selenium and cobalt promoted aboveground biomass throughout growth.
- Intervention effect Selenium alone promoted aboveground biomass only during vegetative growth.
- Intervention effect Selenium fertilizer significantly increased underground biomass in the 10 to 20 cm soil layer by 7.5% relative to control.
- Intervention effect Combined selenium and cobalt significantly increased underground biomass in the 10 to 20 cm soil layer by 18.9% relative to control.
- Intervention effect Combined fertilizer stimulated underground biomass more than selenium alone.
- Intervention effect Selenium fertilizer affected underground biomass growth in the 30 to 50 cm soil layer.
- Intervention effect Combined selenium and cobalt affected underground biomass growth in the 30 to 50 cm soil layer.
- Intervention effect Combined selenium and cobalt fertilizer decreased alfalfa drought relief ability, with a greater effect than selenium alone.