Claim · model-written summary
Combined priming of both salts gave maximum shoot length of 8.83 cm in HUW-234.
- Taxon
- wheat
Triticum aestivumt0 - Material
- HUW-234e1
- Treatment
- a combination of both salts (T5)e2
- Outcome
- length of shoote5
- Direction
- recorded maximume5
- Value
- 8.83e5
- Comparator
- nonprimed control seeds (T1)e3
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Verbatim
t0“in Wheat Varieties”
e1“in two wheat varieties: HUW-234 (V1) and BHU-3(V2)”
e2“seeds were primed with water (hydro; T2), Mg (NO3)2 (T3), ZnSO4 (T4), and a combination of both salts (T5)”
e3“All treatments were compared with the performance of nonprimed control seeds (T1)”
e5“length of shoot (8.83, 10.23 cm) and root (9.47, 10.73 cm) and their fresh (0.34, 0.45 g) and dry weights (0.05, 0.07 g) were recorded maximum in T5 for both varieties”
Title
Surendra Kumar Choudhary; Vivek Kumar; Rajesh Kumar Singhal; et al. Agronomy 2021. doi:10.3390/agronomy11112110
Other claims from this paper (15)
- Intervention effect Priming with Mg (NO3)2 gave maximum germination percentage of 98.33 in HUW-234.
- Intervention effect Priming with Mg (NO3)2 gave maximum germination percentage of 100% in BHU-3.
- Intervention effect Combined priming of both salts gave maximum shoot length of 10.23 cm in BHU-3.
- Intervention effect Combined priming of both salts gave maximum root length of 9.47 cm in HUW-234.
- Intervention effect Combined priming of both salts gave maximum root length of 10.73 cm in BHU-3.
- Intervention effect Combined priming of both salts gave maximum fresh weight of 0.34 g in HUW-234.
- Intervention effect Combined priming of both salts gave maximum fresh weight of 0.45 g in BHU-3.
- Intervention effect Combined priming of both salts gave maximum dry weight of 0.05 g in HUW-234.
- Intervention effect Combined priming of both salts gave maximum dry weight of 0.07 g in BHU-3.
- Intervention effect Combined use of both salts as priming agents gave the best performance in plant height, leaf number and area, and fresh and dry weights of leaves and stem.
- Intervention effect Combined priming increased protein content, with maximum increments of 63.77, 90.37 and 37.44% after 35, 45 and 60 days after sowing.
- Intervention effect Combined priming increased nitrate reductase activity of leaves, with increments of 12.81, 5.61 and 7.75%.
- Intervention effect Primed seeds were superior to nonprimed control seeds for vigor index I and II, although the vigor index differed between varieties.
- Intervention effect Chlorophyll, nitrogen, iron and zinc content were likely enhanced in combined priming treatments compared with nonpriming treatment.
- Intervention effect Priming seeds with Mg (NO3)2 and ZnSO4 worked synergistically at varietal level and improved growth attributes at field conditions.