Claim · model-written summary
Silver nanoparticles stimulated tomato root length in a hormetic manner.
- Taxon
- tomato
Solanum lycopersicume2 - Treatment
- AgNPse1
- Outcome
- lengthe0
- Direction
- stimulatede0
- Qualifier
- in a hormetic mannere0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Verbatim
e0“their application stimulated length and number of roots in a hormetic manner”
e1“AgNPs applied did not affect germination parameters”
e2“in tomato ( Solanum lycopersicum)”
Title
Gabriela Abigail Guzmán-Báez; Libia Iris Trejo-Téllez; Sara Monzerrat Ramírez-Olvera; et al. Dose-Response 2021. doi:10.1177/15593258211044576
Other claims from this paper (4)
- Intervention effect Silver nanoparticles did not affect tomato germination parameters.
- Intervention effect Silver nanoparticles stimulated tomato root number in a hormetic manner.
- Intervention effect Low silver nanoparticle applications increased leaf N, P, and K concentrations in 37-day-old tomato plants.
- Recommendation The authors identified 5 mg/L as especially effective for tomato root development.