Claim · model-written summary
Cencibel had reduced nitrate levels under salinity.
- Taxon
- Lactuca sativa L.
Lactuca sativat0 - Material
- ‘Cencibel’e0
- Treatment
- salinitye1
- Outcome
- nitrate levelse0
- Direction
- reducede0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Verbatim
e0“the ‘Limeira’ and ‘Cencibel’ cultivars had reduced nitrate levels”
t0“Lactuca sativa L.”
e1“nitrate level could be very different due to salinity”
Title
Noémi Kappel; Ildikó Fruzsina Boros; Francia Seconde Ravelombola; et al. Agriculture 2021. doi:10.3390/agriculture11040315
Other claims from this paper (9)
- Intervention effect Saline conditions lowered lettuce yield.
- Intervention effect Saline conditions raised lettuce chlorophyll content.
- Intervention effect Saline conditions raised lettuce nitrate level.
- Intervention effect Limeira had reduced nitrate levels under salinity.
- Observation Limeira had the lowest reported nitrate concentration, 684 µg/g fresh weight.
- Observation Cencibel had the highest reported nitrate concentration, 4396 µg/g FW.
- Association Chlorophyll and nitrate contents were negatively correlated at normal EC.
- Association The chlorophyll–nitrate relationship was not found under salinity.
- Observation All examined cultivars stayed below the permitted nitrate level under salinity.