Abstract
ABSTRACT Cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) is often grown on calcareous soils where manganese (Mn) deficiency is quite common. Despite the fact that Mn deficiency can limit cotton productivity the effect of foliar application of Mn was not determined. A field study was conducted to determine if foliar Mn applications during anthesis affects the growth and yield of cotton. Manganese increased the chlorophyll content by up to 17% compared with the control treatment with no difference between the two rates of Mn. Moreover, Mn increased the seed yield by an average of 30%, the number of bolls per plant by 31%, the number of bolls per square meter by 31% and boll retention by 37% compared with the control, but it did not affect the mean boll weight and the quality of the fibers. Foliar application of Mn increased seed germination by an average of 14% and increased seed vigor (AA) by an average of 28% compared with the control treatment. The results obtained here suggest that foliar Mn application can improve the lint and seed yield and also the seed quality of cotton grown for seed production on calcareous soils.
Abstract from the paper’s OpenAlex record, shown for indexing and research. Copyright remains with the authors or the publisher. Read at the source ↗
The text the model read, with the source record’s inline markup (italics, sub- and superscripts) rendered and its character entities decoded; quote offsets refer to the raw text.
Claims 10
Claim · model-written summary
Manganese raised cotton chlorophyll content by up to 17% versus control.
- Treatment
- Manganesee0
- Outcome
- chlorophyll contente0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Value
- 17%e0
- Comparator
- control treatmente0
Not reportedTaxon
Verbatim
e0“Manganese increased the chlorophyll content by up to 17% compared with the control treatment with no difference between the two rates of Mn”
Claim · model-written summary
The two manganese rates did not differ in chlorophyll content.
- Taxon
- Cotton
Gossypium hirsutumt0 - Treatment
- two rates of Mne0
- Outcome
- chlorophyll contente1
- Direction
- no differencee0
- Comparator
- two rates of Mne0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“no difference between the two rates of Mn”
e1“Manganese increased the chlorophyll content by up to 17% compared with the control treatment with no difference between the two rates of Mn”
t0“Cotton”
Claim · model-written summary
Manganese increased cotton seed yield by an average of 30%.
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Mn increased the seed yield by an average of 30%”
t0“Cotton”
Claim · model-written summary
Manganese increased bolls per plant by 31%.
- Taxon
- CottonGossypium hirsutumt0
- Treatment
- Mne1
- Outcome
- number of bolls per plante0
- Value
- 31%e0
Not reportedComparatorDirection
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“the number of bolls per plant by 31%”
e1“Mn increased the seed yield”
t0“Cotton”
Claim · model-written summary
Manganese increased bolls per square meter by 31%.
- Taxon
- CottonGossypium hirsutumt0
- Treatment
- Mne1
- Outcome
- number of bolls per square metere0
- Value
- 31%e0
Not reportedComparatorDirection
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“the number of bolls per square meter by 31%”
e1“Mn increased the seed yield”
t0“Cotton”
Claim · model-written summary
Manganese increased boll retention by 37%.
- Taxon
- CottonGossypium hirsutumt0
- Treatment
- Mne1
- Outcome
- boll retentione0
- Value
- 37%e0
Not reportedComparatorDirection
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“boll retention by 37%”
e1“Mn increased the seed yield”
t0“Cotton”
Claim · model-written summary
Manganese did not affect mean boll weight or fiber quality.
- Taxon
- CottonGossypium hirsutumt0
- Treatment
- Mne1
- Outcome
- mean boll weight and the quality of the fiberse0
- Direction
- did not affecte0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“it did not affect the mean boll weight and the quality of the fibers”
e1“Mn increased the seed yield”
t0“Cotton”
Claim · model-written summary
Foliar manganese increased seed germination by an average of 14% versus control.
- Taxon
- CottonGossypium hirsutumt0
- Treatment
- Foliar application of Mne0
- Outcome
- seed germinatione0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Value
- 14%e0
- Comparator
- control treatmente0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Foliar application of Mn increased seed germination by an average of 14% and increased seed vigor (AA) by an average of 28% compared with the control treatment”
t0“Cotton”
Claim · model-written summary
Foliar manganese increased seed vigor by an average of 28% versus control.
- Taxon
- CottonGossypium hirsutumt0
- Treatment
- Foliar application of Mne0
- Outcome
- seed vigor (AA)e0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Value
- 28%e0
- Comparator
- control treatmente0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Foliar application of Mn increased seed germination by an average of 14% and increased seed vigor (AA) by an average of 28% compared with the control treatment”
t0“Cotton”
Claim · model-written summary
The authors conclude foliar manganese can improve lint and seed yield and seed quality on calcareous soils.
- Taxon
- cottonGossypium hirsutume0
- Outcome
- lint and seed yield and also the seed qualitye0
- Setting
- calcareous soilse0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“foliar Mn application can improve the lint and seed yield and also the seed quality of cotton grown for seed production on calcareous soils”
The same questions in other papers
manganese atom · growth · Gossypium hirsutum (cotton)Positive and negative results
3 papers in the same direction as this paper · 1 in the opposite direction
- negative
- positive
- positive
1 paper more in this group
See all 5 papers →manganese atom · physiology: pigments · Gossypium hirsutum (cotton)Results agree
2 papers in the same direction as this paper
- positive
- positive
manganese atom · yield · Gossypium hirsutum (cotton)Results agree
12 papers in the same direction as this paper
- positive
- positive
- positive
9 papers more in this group
See all 13 papers →application · growth · Gossypium hirsutum (cotton)Positive and negative results
95 papers in the same direction as this paper · 18 in the opposite direction · 1 reporting no difference from an alternative
- positive
- no effect
- no effect
111 papers more in this group
See all 115 papers →Claims are grouped by organism, treatment and what was measured or targeted. A paper counts as positive when any of its claims in the group is positive.