Claim · model-written summary
Zinc soil application without bacteria increased grain yield by 48% under drought.
- Taxon
- corn
Zea mays subsp. mayst0 - Treatment
- Soil application of ZnSO 4 without bacteriae0
- Outcome
- grain and biological yielde0
- Direction
- enhancede0
- Value
- 48 %e0
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Verbatim
e0“Soil application of ZnSO 4 without bacteria or foliar application of ZnSO 4 with P. aeruginosa enhanced grain and biological yield by 48 % and 8.9 % under drought stress, respectivly.”
t0“corn under drought stress”
Title
Fahimeh Khaledi; Hamidreza Balouchi; Mohsen Movahhedi Dehnavi; et al. Agricultural Water Management 2025. doi:10.1016/j.agwat.2025.109313
Other claims from this paper (11)
- Intervention effect Drought reduced corn relative water content by 11%.
- Intervention effect Drought reduced corn cobs per square meter by 9%.
- Intervention effect Drought increased corn water use efficiency by 5.7%.
- Intervention effect Zinc priming or foliar application with Pseudomonas increased corn cobs per square meter by 12.5%.
- Intervention effect The same combined treatment increased rows per cob by 15%.
- Intervention effect Foliar zinc with P. aeruginosa increased 100-grain weight by 48% under normal conditions.
- Intervention effect Foliar zinc with P. aeruginosa increased 100-grain weight by 52% under drought.
- Intervention effect Foliar zinc with P. aeruginosa increased biological yield by 8.9% under drought.
- Intervention effect Zinc seed priming with P. aeruginosa increased grain yield by 39.6% under sufficient irrigation.
- Intervention effect Zinc seed priming with P. aeruginosa increased biological yield by 14.9% under sufficient irrigation.
- Intervention effect Drought and foliar zinc with Pseudomonas increased leaf and grain zinc content.