Claim · model-written summary
Increasing boric acid concentration increased pollen germination and tube growth without injury.
- Taxon
- date palm
Phoenix dactyliferat0 - Treatment
- boric acide0
- Outcome
- germination and tube growthe0
- Direction
- increasede0
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Verbatim
e0“Both germination and tube growth increased with increasing concentration of boric acid, GA, and IAA without injurious effects”
t0“The Effects of Some Chemicals and Growth Substances on Pollen Germination and Tube Growth of Date Palm”
Title
Mir I. Asif; Osman A. AI-Tahir; A. F. Farah HortScience 1983. doi:10.21273/hortsci.18.4.479
Other claims from this paper (9)
- Intervention effect Boric acid stimulated pollen germination and tube growth.
- Intervention effect Fumaric acid stimulated pollen germination and tube growth.
- Intervention effect Gibberellic acid stimulated pollen germination and tube growth.
- Intervention effect Indoleacetic acid stimulated pollen germination and tube growth.
- Intervention effect Succinic acid stimulated pollen germination and tube growth.
- Association Increasing GA concentration increased germination and tube growth without injury.
- Association Increasing IAA concentration increased germination and tube growth without injury.
- Observation Pollen germination was greatest at 0.05 ppm succinic acid.
- Observation Pollen germination was greatest at 0.5 fumaric acid.