Intervention effectmodel-written summary

Twenty-minute treatment with 98% sulfuric acid efficiently broke sweet potato seed dormancy.

A claim from Dormancy and evaluation of the physical-physiological quality in sweet potato [Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam.] seeds by image analysis · 2022

Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultpositivemeasured

Claim · model-written summary

Twenty-minute treatment with 98% sulfuric acid efficiently broke sweet potato seed dormancy.

Taxon
sweet potatoIpomoea batatase0
Treatment
98% sulfuric acid, for an immersion period of 20 minutese0
Outcome
break dormancye0

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Ipomoea batatas
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“Treatments with mechanical scarification with grinder and 98% sulfuric acid, for an immersion period of 20 minutes, are efficient to break dormancy in sweet potato seeds.”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 891–1061

Title

Dormancy and evaluation of the physical-physiological quality in sweet potato [Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam.] seeds by image analysis

Soryana Gonçalves Ferreira de Melo; Valter Carvalho de Andrade Júnior; Raquel Maria de Oliveira Pires; et al. Journal of Seed Science 2022. doi:10.1590/2317-1545v44261490

Other claims from this paper (3)

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sulfuric acid · growth · Ipomoea batatas (sweet potato)Results agree

3 papers: 3 positive, 0 negative or no effect

2 papers in the same direction as this claim

  1. positive
    Seedling dry mass increased with soaking times up to 55.00 min.

    Soaking time in sulfuric acid to overcome sweet potato seeds dormancy · 2024

    Same directionCites this paper

  2. positive
    Exposure to sulfuric acid for 30 min broke sweet potato seed dormancy.

    Sulfuric acid effects in seed dormancy break of Ipomoea batatas evaluated by enzymatic, anatomic and physiological approaches · 2024

    Same direction

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application · growth · Ipomoea batatas (sweet potato)Positive and negative results

13 papers: 11 positive, 2 negative or no effect

10 papers in the same direction as this claim · 2 in the opposite direction

  1. positive
    Seed germination percentage rose with immersion time to 53.30 min, reaching an estimated maximum of 85.39%.

    Soaking time in sulfuric acid to overcome sweet potato seeds dormancy · 2024

    Same directionCites this paper

  2. no effect
    Mepiquat chloride sprays did not affect dry weight partitioning to vines or storage roots.

    Retardation of Vine Development of Pot-grown Sweet Potato Plants with Mepiquat Chloride · 1986

    Opposite direction

  3. negative
    Sugar spray alone retarded top growth.

    On the physiology and utilization of vitamin B1 in garden crops. V · 1956

    Opposite direction

  4. positive
    Foliar humic substance application significantly improved sweet potato growth parameters in normal growth scenarios.

    Chitosan combined with humic applications during sensitive growth stages to drought improves nutritional status and water relations of sweet potato · 2024

    Same direction

  5. positive
    Repeated spraying of 40 or 50 ppm boron increased leaf area index, absolute growth rate and net assimilation rate.

    Boron Foliar Application in Relation to Sweet Potato Productivity · 2019

    Same direction

  6. positive
    Combined cutting dip and foliar chitosan was best for increasing shoot dry weight.

    EFFECT OF APPLICATION METHODS AND CONCENTATION OF CHITOSAN ON GROWTH, YIELD, TUBER ROOTS QUALITY AND STORABILITY OF SWEET POTATO PLANTS GROWN UNDER SANDY SOIL CONDITIONS · 2015

    Same direction

  7. positive
    The triple treatment significantly increased tuber root diameter in sweet potato tubers.

    RESPONSE OF SWEET POTATO PLANTS TO SULPHUR, FARMYARD MANURE AND FOLIAR SPRAY WITH CHITOSAN 2. YIELD AND ITS COMPONENTS AS WELL AS TUBER ROOTS QUALITY · 2017

    Same direction

  8. positive
    Irrigation every 15 or 30 days with fulvic acid and potassium silicate increased vine length and shoot fresh and dry weights.

    RESPONSE OF YIELD AND QUALITY OF SWEET POTATO PLANTS TO IRRIGATION INTERVALS AND SOME SOIL AND FOLIAR APPLICATION TREATMENTS · 2021

    Same direction

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Claims are grouped by organism, treatment and what was measured or targeted. A paper counts as positive when any of its claims in the group is positive.