Claim · model-written summary
Zinc reduced the inhibitory effect of boron on tomato growth.
- Taxon
- tomato
Solanum lycopersicume1 - Treatment
- Zn treatmentse0
- Outcome
- inhibitory effect of B on growthe0
- Direction
- reducede0
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Verbatim
e0“Zn treatments reduced the inhibitory effect of B on growth.”
e1“tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill., cv. ‘Lale')”
Title
Effect of zinc on the alleviation of boron toxicity in tomato
Aydin Güneş; Mehmet Alpaslan; Yakup Çikili; et al. Journal of Plant Nutrition 1999. doi:10.1080/01904169909365695
Other claims from this paper (6)
- Observation Boron toxicity symptoms occurred at 10 to 20 mg kg−1 boron.
- Intervention effect Applied zinc partially alleviated boron toxicity symptoms.
- Intervention effect Applied boron strongly depressed fresh and dry plant weights.
- Association Increasing boron raised tissue boron concentration more without applied zinc.
- Intervention effect Zinc treatments increased plant zinc concentration.
- Intervention effect Boron treatments increased plant zinc concentration.