Claim · model-written summary
Supplementary silicon significantly increased alfalfa biomass at 50% or 65% of field water capacity
- Taxon
- Medicago sativa
Medicago sativat0 - Treatment
- supplementary silicone1
- Outcome
- biomass of alfalfa plantse0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Qualifier
- soil moisture was 50% or 65% of field water capacitye0
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Verbatim
e0“but significantly increased the biomass of alfalfa plants when the soil moisture was 50% or 65% of field water capacity”
e1“supplementary silicon had no effect on the biomass of alfalfa plants when the soil moisture was 35% or 80% of field water capacity”
t0“Medicago sativa”
Title
Huixia Liu Chinese Journal of Appplied Environmental Biology 2011
Other claims from this paper (7)
- Intervention effect Supplementary silicon had no effect on alfalfa biomass at 35% or 80% of field water capacity
- Intervention effect Supplementary silicon did not affect total nitrogen content in alfalfa shoots
- Intervention effect Supplementary silicon significantly increased total potassium and phosphorus contents in alfalfa shoots
- Intervention effect Supplementary silicon had no effect on soil total nitrogen, available nitrogen and total phosphorus
- Intervention effect Supplementary silicon had no effect on soil total potassium
- Intervention effect Supplementary silicon significantly increased soil available phosphorus content
- Intervention effect Supplementary silicon significantly decreased soil available potassium content