Paper · 1940 · Botanical Gazette

Interrelations in the Effects of Boron and Indoleacetic Acid on Plant Growth

Frank M. Eaton

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Abstract

Experiments with young cotton plants show that indoleacetic acid will to some extent replace boron as an element essential to the growth of root, stem, leaf vein, and other leaf blade tissues. The results suggest that boron is essential to the formation of auxin in plants.

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Claims 3

Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultpositivemeasured

Claim · model-written summary

Indoleacetic acid to some extent replaced boron in supporting growth of root, stem and leaf vein in young cotton plants.

Organ / stage
root, stem, leaf veine0
Treatment
indoleacetic acide0
Outcome
growthe0
Direction
replacee0
Qualifier
to some extente0
Comparator
borone0

Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Gossypium hirsutum
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Verbatim

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“Experiments with young cotton plants show that indoleacetic acid will to some extent replace boron as an element essential to the growth of root, stem, leaf vein, and other leaf blade tissues”

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Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultpositivemeasured

Claim · model-written summary

Indoleacetic acid to some extent replaced boron in supporting growth of other leaf blade tissues in young cotton plants.

Organ / stage
other leaf blade tissuese0
Treatment
indoleacetic acide0
Outcome
growthe0
Direction
replacee0
Qualifier
to some extente0
Comparator
borone0

Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Gossypium hirsutum
Gossypium hirsutum · TaxonChriKo · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

Verbatim

e0

“Experiments with young cotton plants show that indoleacetic acid will to some extent replace boron as an element essential to the growth of root, stem, leaf vein, and other leaf blade tissues”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 0–191 · show in text ↑
Mechanismauthor interpretationoriginal resultmeasured

Claim · model-written summary

Boron is suggested to be essential to auxin formation in cotton plants.

Treatment
borone1
Compound
auxine1
Outcome
formation of auxine1

Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Gossypium hirsutum
Gossypium hirsutum · TaxonChriKo · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

Verbatim

e0

“Experiments with young cotton plants show that indoleacetic acid will to some extent replace boron as an element essential to the growth of root, stem, leaf vein, and other leaf blade tissues”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 0–191 · show in text ↑
e1

“The results suggest that boron is essential to the formation of auxin in plants”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 193–272 · show in text ↑

indole-3-acetic acid · growth · Gossypium hirsutum (cotton)Results differ

15 papers: 12 positive, 3 negative or no effect

11 papers in the same direction as this paper · 3 in the opposite direction

  1. no effect
  2. negative
  3. no effect

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