Claim · model-written summary
Glycine betaine was more effective than ascorbic acid in improving cotton plant growth and yield.
- Taxon
- cotton
Gossypium hirsutume0 - Treatment
- glycine betainee3
- Outcome
- plant growth and yielde3
- Direction
- more effectivee3
- Comparator
- ascorbic acide3
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Verbatim
e0“cotton production”
e3“Generally, glycine betaine was more effective than ascorbic acid in improving plant growth and yield”
Title
Rehab Abo El-Kasem; Esmat H.A. Noufal; Ihab M. Farid; et al. Environment, Biodiversity and Soil Security 2025. doi:10.21608/jenvbs.2025.362795.1265
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- Intervention effect Phosphogypsum and sulfur significantly reduced soil bulk density.
- Intervention effect Phosphogypsum and sulfur enhanced soil total porosity and hydraulic conductivity in both seasons.
- Intervention effect Phosphogypsum and sulfur enhanced soil field capacity and wilting point in both seasons.
- Intervention effect All the used materials increased soil available phosphorus and soluble calcium and magnesium ions.
- Intervention effect Phosphogypsum and sulfur reduced soil pH, exchangeable sodium percentage and electrical conductivity in both seasons compared with untreated salinized plots.
- Intervention effect Phosphogypsum and sulfur reduced the concentration of soluble sodium ion in both seasons compared with untreated salinized plots.
- Intervention effect Foliar treatments alone did not affect the soil characters relative to control in two seasons.
- Intervention effect All the used treatments increased cotton seed germination percentage and plant growth parameters.
- Intervention effect All the used treatments increased leaf chemical composition of cotton.
- Intervention effect All the used treatments increased cotton yield and its components.
- Intervention effect Glycine betaine or ascorbic acid significantly increased leaf chlorophyll a, chlorophyll b and total chlorophylls in cotton.
- Intervention effect Glycine betaine or ascorbic acid significantly increased leaf carotenoids in cotton.
- Intervention effect Glycine betaine or ascorbic acid improved number of fruiting branches per plant, plant height and leaf area per plant of cotton compared with control.
- Intervention effect Glycine betaine or ascorbic acid improved number of setting bolls, boll weight and number of open bolls of cotton compared with control.
- Intervention effect Glycine betaine or ascorbic acid improved seed cotton yield compared with control.
- Intervention effect Foliar spraying with glycine betaine and ascorbic acid positively mitigated the adverse effects of salt stress on cotton growth and yield.