Claim · model-written summary
Si-treated cucumber plants had more Si in leaves and fruits than untreated controls.
- Taxon
- Cucumis sativus L.
Cucumis sativust0 - Treatment
- Si-treatede0
- Outcome
- Si in the leaves and fruitse0
- Direction
- moree0
- Comparator
- untreated controlse0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“Cucumis sativus L.”
e0“Si-treated plants had more Si in the leaves and fruits (% dry wt.), and phosphorus and potassium (% dry wt.) in the leaves compared to untreated controls”
Title
Abd-Alkarim Emad; Bayoumi Yousry; Metwally Elmahdy; et al. African Journal of Agricultural Research 2017. doi:10.5897/ajar2017.12484
Other claims from this paper (6)
- Intervention effect All Si treatments produced higher early and marketable cucumber fruit yield (number and weight) in both years.
- Intervention effect Si application significantly increased cucumber fruit firmness at all growth stages.
- Intervention effect The effect of Si on total soluble solids of cucumber fruit varied with growth stage and Si concentration.
- Intervention effect Treatments differed significantly in cucumber fruit ascorbic acid content in 2013 but not in 2014.
- Intervention effect Si-treated cucumber plants had more phosphorus and potassium in the leaves than untreated controls.
- Recommendation The authors conclude that both foliar sprays and soil drenches of Si have the potential to increase cucumber yield and fruit quality in net house production.