Claim · model-written summary
Hydrogel increased plant-available water significantly in both soils.
- Taxon
- barley, wheat and chickpea
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Hordeum vulgare
Triticum aestivumt0 - Treatment
- 0.1, 0.2 and 0.3% hydrogele0
- Outcome
- plant available watere0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Comparator
- untreated soilse0
- Setting
- sandy loam and loam soilse0
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Verbatim
e0“The addition of 0.1, 0.2 and 0.3% hydrogel increased the moisture retention (θr) at field capacity linearly (r = 0.988) and thus the amount of plant available water significantly in both sandy loam and loam soils compared to the untreated soils”
t0“barley, wheat and chickpea”
Title
J. Akhter; K. Mahmood; K.A. Malik; et al. Plant Soil and Environment 2004. doi:10.17221/4059-pse
Other claims from this paper (10)
- Observation Hydrogel absorbed water most rapidly and strongly in distilled water, while salinity inhibited absorption.
- Intervention effect Adding 0.1–0.3% hydrogel increased field-capacity moisture retention linearly in both soils versus untreated soil.
- Intervention effect Hydrogel did not affect wheat seed germination.
- Intervention effect Hydrogel did not affect barley seed germination.
- Intervention effect Hydrogel improved wheat seedling growth.
- Intervention effect Hydrogel improved barley seedling growth.
- Intervention effect In loam soil, 0.2% gel increased chickpea seed germination.
- Association In loam soil, chickpea seedling growth increased with gel level.
- Intervention effect Hydrogel delayed seedling wilting by 4-5 days in both soils versus control.
- Intervention effect Hydrogel increased plant establishment.