Claim · model-written summary
Zinc application significantly increased wheat grain yield.
- Taxon
- wheat
Triticum aestivumt0 - Treatment
- Application of Zne0
- Outcome
- grain yielde0
- Direction
- increasede0
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Verbatim
e0“Application of Zn significantly increased grain yield, grain Zn concentration and estimated Zn bioavailability, and significantly decreased grain phytate concentration and [phytate]:[Zn] ratio in wheat grains.”
t0“wheat grains”
Title
Zinc bioavailability response curvature in wheat grains under incremental zinc applications
Shahid Hussain; Muhammad Aamer Maqsood; Tariq Aziz; et al. Archives of Agronomy and Soil Science 2012. doi:10.1080/03650340.2012.701732
Other claims from this paper (12)
- Intervention effect Zinc application significantly increased grain Zn concentration.
- Intervention effect Zinc application significantly increased estimated Zn bioavailability.
- Intervention effect Zinc application significantly decreased grain phytate concentration.
- Intervention effect Zinc application significantly decreased the grain phytate to zinc ratio.
- Observation The grain yield response to zinc application was quadratic.
- Observation Maximum grain yield was estimated at 10.8 mg Zn kg−1 soil for Shafaq-2006.
- Observation Maximum grain yield was estimated at 7.4 mg Zn kg−1 soil for Auqab-2000.
- Intervention effect Further zinc application progressively reduced grain Fe concentration.
- Intervention effect Further zinc application increased the grain phytate to iron ratio.
- Intervention effect A medium zinc application rate increased grain Ca concentration.
- Intervention effect A medium zinc application rate decreased the grain phytate to calcium ratio.
- Recommendation The authors recommend selecting zinc fertilization rates using response curves to maximize yield and bioavailability.