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Untreated municipal wastewater irrigation increased plant height of Allium sativum by 12.9% relative to freshwater irrigation.
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e1“plant height, stem length, leaf size, and root length increased by 2.0%, 111.8%, 95.2%, and 57.4%, respectively, whereas in A. sativum the corresponding increases were 12.9%, 9.5%, 21.1%, and 73.5%”
e2“untreated municipal wastewater irrigation compared with freshwater irrigation in a pot experiment conducted in Sialkot, Pakistan”
Title
Mehmooda Munazir; Naheed Kausar; Rahmatullah Qureshi; et al. Scientific Reports 2026. doi:10.1038/s41598-026-50486-2
Other claims from this paper (14)
- Intervention effect Untreated municipal wastewater irrigation increased plant height of Allium cepa by 2.0% relative to freshwater irrigation.
- Intervention effect Untreated municipal wastewater irrigation increased stem length of Allium cepa by 111.8% relative to freshwater irrigation.
- Intervention effect Untreated municipal wastewater irrigation increased leaf size of Allium cepa by 95.2% relative to freshwater irrigation.
- Intervention effect Untreated municipal wastewater irrigation increased root length of Allium cepa by 57.4% relative to freshwater irrigation.
- Intervention effect Untreated municipal wastewater irrigation increased stem length of Allium sativum by 9.5% relative to freshwater irrigation.
- Intervention effect Untreated municipal wastewater irrigation increased leaf size of Allium sativum by 21.1% relative to freshwater irrigation.
- Intervention effect Untreated municipal wastewater irrigation increased root length of Allium sativum by 73.5% relative to freshwater irrigation.
- Intervention effect Reproductive traits of the Allium plants also increased under wastewater irrigation, but some large proportional changes, particularly garlic flower number, should be interpreted cautiously.
- Intervention effect Untreated municipal wastewater irrigation reduced total chlorophyll in A. cepa by 33.7% relative to freshwater irrigation.
- Intervention effect Untreated municipal wastewater irrigation reduced total chlorophyll in A. sativum by 22.4% relative to freshwater irrigation.
- Intervention effect Antioxidant activity decreased across leaves, roots and stems under wastewater irrigation, with the strongest reduction in garlic stems.
- Observation Qualitative phytochemical profiles shifted between wastewater and control treatments, but this was descriptive only and not interpreted as a statistically robust effect.
- Observation The wastewater had higher pH, electrical conductivity and suspended solids than control water.
- Observation The wastewater had higher organic load than control water.
