Claim · model-written summary
Foliar carbon dots at 100 mg/L increased grain yield by 18%.
- Taxon
- rice
Oryza sativat0 - Treatment
- 100 mg/L treatmente0
- Outcome
- grain yielde0
- Direction
- increasinge0
- Value
- 18%e0
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Verbatim
t0“rice”
e0“The 100 mg/L treatment performed best, increasing grain yield by 18% and reducing Cd accumulation in roots and grains by 40% and 46%, respectively”
Title
Meng Zhao; Cheng Zhang; Minggang Xu; et al. Carbon Research 2026. doi:10.1007/s44246-026-00286-0
Other claims from this paper (9)
- Intervention effect Foliar carbon dots at 100 mg/L reduced Cd accumulation in roots by 40%.
- Intervention effect Foliar carbon dots at 100 mg/L reduced grains by 46%.
- Intervention effect The treatment did not compromise grain nutritional quality.
- Intervention effect Carbon dots strengthened leaf antioxidant defenses.
- Intervention effect Carbon dots enriched metabolites in ascorbate–glutathione, zeatin, and triterpenoid saponin pathways.
- Intervention effect Carbon dots reshaped rhizosphere bacterial community composition.
- Intervention effect Carbon dots promoted rhizosphere iron cycling.
- Intervention effect The 100 mg/L carbon dot treatment increased Fe in root-surface iron plaques 1.8-fold.
- Intervention effect The 100 mg/L carbon dot treatment increased Cd sequestration in root-surface iron plaques 2.4-fold.