Claim · model-written summary
High zinc reduced maize chlorophyll, relative water content and biomass compared with control plants.
- Treatment
- high Zn alonee0
- Outcome
- chlorophyll (Chl.) content, leaf relative water content (RWC) and produced less biomasse0
- Direction
- lowere0
- Comparator
- the control plantse0
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Verbatim
e0“Plants growing with high Zn alone had a lower chlorophyll (Chl.) content, leaf relative water content (RWC) and produced less biomass than the control plants.”
Title
Mitigation Effects of Silicon on Maize Plants Grown at High Zinc
Cengiz Kaya; A. Levent Tuna; Osman Sonmez; et al. Journal of Plant Nutrition 2009. doi:10.1080/01904160903152624
Other claims from this paper (7)
- Intervention effect Zinc treatment increased maize proline content and membrane permeability against controls.
- Intervention effect Silicon increased maize growth, chlorophyll and relative water content versus high zinc alone.
- Intervention effect Silicon reduced membrane permeability and proline content versus high zinc alone.
- Intervention effect High zinc increased leaf and root zinc content.
- Intervention effect High zinc reduced leaf phosphorus and iron.
- Intervention effect Silicon reduced leaf zinc concentration in maize.
- Intervention effect Silicon increased leaf iron in maize.