Claim · model-written summary
Straw and silicon appeared to increase resistance to all diseases only under high disease pressure.
- Taxon
- winter wheat
Triticum aestivumt0 - Treatment
- straw and silicon treatmentse0
- Outcome
- plant resistance to all diseasese0
- Direction
- increasee0
- Qualifier
- only under high disease pressuree0
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Verbatim
t0“winter wheat”
e0“Both straw and silicon treatments appeared to increase plant resistance to all diseases only under high disease pressure”
Title
B. S. Rodgers‐Gray; M. W. Shaw Plant Pathology 2004. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3059.2004.01102.x
Other claims from this paper (11)
- Intervention effect Silicon treatment increased wheat silica concentrations in all experiments.
- Association Straw incorporation was not associated with raised wheat silica concentrations.
- Intervention effect Silicon reduced powdery mildew substantially in sand and vermiculite and two soils.
- Intervention effect Silicon had no effect on slight brown rust infection.
- Intervention effect Silicon reduced P. nodorum leaf spot in sand and vermiculite.
- Intervention effect Silicon reduced septoria leaf blotch symptoms in a severely infected sand and vermiculite experiment.
- Intervention effect Silicon did not reduce septoria leaf blotch symptoms in soil or a slightly infected sand and vermiculite experiment.
- Intervention effect Silicon reduced eyespot severity in two soils but not sand and vermiculite.
- Intervention effect Silicon did not affect brown foot rot symptoms.
- Intervention effect Straw reduced powdery mildew severity.
- Intervention effect Straw did not detectably affect the other pathogens.