Claim · model-written summary
Biochar application improved plant height of wheat by 15.74% compared with the control under drought.
- Taxon
- wheat
Triticum aestivume1 - Treatment
- Biochar applicatione4
- Outcome
- plant heighte4
- Direction
- improvinge4
- Value
- 15.74%e4
- Comparator
- control treatmente4
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Verbatim
e1“Drought stress is a major limitation in wheat production around the globe”
e4“Biochar application substantially reduced the detrimental effects of drought by improving plant height (15.74%), fertile tiller count (17.14%), spike length (16.61%), grains per spike (13.89%), thousand grain weight (10.4%), and biological yield (13.1%) when compared with the control treatment”
Title
Bilal Zulfiqar; Muhammad Aown Sammar Raza; Muhammad Farrukh Saleem; et al. PLoS ONE 2022. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0267819
Other claims from this paper (19)
- Intervention effect Drought stress significantly reduced the growth and yield of wheat at critical growth stages.
- Intervention effect Biochar application improved fertile tiller count of wheat by 17.14% compared with the control under drought.
- Intervention effect Biochar application improved spike length of wheat by 16.61% compared with the control under drought.
- Intervention effect Biochar application improved grains per spike of wheat by 13.89% compared with the control under drought.
- Intervention effect Biochar application improved thousand grain weight of wheat by 10.4% compared with the control under drought.
- Intervention effect Biochar application improved biological yield of wheat by 13.1% compared with the control under drought.
- Intervention effect Biochar application improved water use efficiency of wheat by 38.41%.
- Intervention effect Biochar application improved stomatal conductance of wheat by 42.76%.
- Intervention effect Biochar application improved chlorophyll a of wheat by 19.3%.
- Intervention effect Biochar application improved chlorophyll b of wheat by 22.24%.
- Intervention effect Biochar application improved transpiration rate of wheat by 39.17%.
- Intervention effect Biochar application improved photosynthetic rate of wheat by 24.86%.
- Intervention effect Biochar application improved electrolyte leakage of wheat (value -42.5%).
- Intervention effect Biochar application improved hydrogen peroxide of wheat (value -18.03%).
- Intervention effect Biochar application improved superoxide dismutase of wheat by 24.66%.
- Intervention effect Biochar application improved catalase of wheat by 24.11%.
- Intervention effect Biochar application improved peroxidase of wheat (value -13.14%).
- Recommendation Using biochar at a 5% rate could be a successful strategy to promote wheat grain production by reducing drought impacts.
- Intervention effect Yield loss under drought was significant at the grain filling stage (DGFS), the most susceptible stage.