Claim · model-written summary
Foliar silicon increased capitulum dry matter by 19%.
- Taxon
- Helianthus annuus
Helianthus annuust0 - Treatment
- Foliar Si application up to the dose of 3.36 g L−1e0
- Outcome
- capitulume0
- Direction
- increasese0
- Value
- 19%e0
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Verbatim
e0“Foliar Si application up to the dose of 3.36 g L−1 promotes linear increases in the dry matter production of shoots (32%), capitulum (19%) and the whole plant of sunflower (27%).”
t0“Helianthus annuus”
Title
Nutrition and production ofHelianthus annuusin a function of application of leaf silicon
Rilner Alves Flores; Everton Martins Arruda; Jonas Pereira de Souza Junior; et al. Journal of Plant Nutrition 2018. doi:10.1080/01904167.2018.1549678
Other claims from this paper (5)
- Intervention effect Foliar silicon did not significantly affect relative chlorophyll index.
- Intervention effect Foliar silicon increased plant height by 8.3%.
- Intervention effect Foliar silicon increased leaf area by 25.4%.
- Intervention effect Foliar silicon increased shoot dry matter by 32%.
- Intervention effect Foliar silicon increased whole-plant dry matter by 27%.