Claim · model-written summary
Potash produced superior biomass and seed yield in sunflower.
- Taxon
- sunflower
Helianthus annuuse0 - Treatment
- potashe0
- Outcome
- total biomass and seed yielde0
- Direction
- superioritye0
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Verbatim
e0“total biomass and seed yield showed superiority in peanut and sunflower cultivated in soil incorporated with potash”
t0“Evaluation of the influence of nitrogen fixing, phosphate solubilizing and potash mobilizing biofertilizers on growth, yield, and fatty acid constituents of oil in peanut and sunflower”
Title
Hala F. S. Ahmed AFRICAN JOURNAL OF BIOTECHNOLOGY 2012. doi:10.5897/ajb11.3451
Other claims from this paper (19)
- Intervention effect Each biofertilizer enhanced growth parameters in 30-day-old peanut.
- Intervention effect Each biofertilizer enhanced growth parameters in 30-day-old sunflower.
- Association Dry matter generally correlated with chlorophyll a and b enhancement in both plants.
- Intervention effect Carotenoid contents were approximately comparable to controls.
- Intervention effect Potash produced superior biomass and seed yield in peanut.
- Observation Nitrobein produced the next greatest enhancement in peanut.
- Observation Phosphorein produced the next greatest enhancement in sunflower.
- Intervention effect Nitrobein increased peanut seed yield by 122.03%.
- Intervention effect Phosphorein increased peanut seed yield by 120.11%.
- Intervention effect Potash increased peanut seed yield by 176.62%.
- Intervention effect Nitrobein increased sunflower seed yield by 149.22%.
- Intervention effect Phosphorein increased sunflower seed yield by 168.75%.
- Intervention effect Potash increased sunflower seed yield by 173.44%.
- Intervention effect Biofertilizers increased oil content per plant.
- Intervention effect Biofertilizer amendments decreased saturated fatty acid levels.
- Intervention effect Biofertilizer amendments increased unsaturated fatty acids, particularly linoleic and linolenic.
- Intervention effect Phosphorein maximally increased linoleic acid in peanut oil.
- Intervention effect Nitrobein maximally increased linolenic acid in peanut oil.
- Intervention effect Potash and phosphorein maximally increased linoleic and linolenic acid, respectively, in sunflower oil.