Abstract
Abstract Potassium (K) fertilizer management is beneficial for improving growth, yield and yield components of field crops under moisture stress condition in semiarid climates. Field experiments were conducted to study the response of maize ( Zea mays L., cv. Azam) to foliar and soil applied K during summer 2013 and 2014. The experiments were carried out at the Agronomy Research Farm of The University of Agriculture Peshawar, Northwest Pakistan under limited irrigation (moisture stress) condition. It was concluded from the results that application of foliar K at the rate of 1–3% and foliar Zn at the rate of 0.1–0.2% was more beneficial in terms of better growth, higher yield and yield components of maize under moisture stress condition. Early spray (vegetative stage) resulted in better growth and higher yield than late spray (reproductive stage). Soil K treated plots (rest) plots performed better than control (K not applied) in terms of improved growth, higher yield and yield components of maize crop. The results further demonstrated that increasing the rate of soil applied K up to 90 kg P ha −1 in two equal splits (50% each at sowing and knee height) improve growth and maize productivity under semiarid climates.
Abstract from the paper’s OpenAlex record; open copy licensed cc-by. 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 5
Claim · model-written summary
Foliar K at 1–3% improved maize growth, yield and yield components under moisture stress.
- Treatment
- foliar K at the rate of 1–3%e0
- Outcome
- growth, higher yield and yield componentse0
- Direction
- bettere0
- Qualifier
- under moisture stress conditione0
Zea maysNot reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“application of foliar K at the rate of 1–3% and foliar Zn at the rate of 0.1–0.2% was more beneficial in terms of better growth, higher yield and yield components of maize under moisture stress condition”
Claim · model-written summary
Foliar Zn at 0.1–0.2% improved maize growth, yield and yield components under moisture stress.
- Treatment
- foliar Zn at the rate of 0.1–0.2%e0
- Outcome
- growth, higher yield and yield componentse0
- Direction
- bettere0
- Qualifier
- under moisture stress conditione0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“application of foliar K at the rate of 1–3% and foliar Zn at the rate of 0.1–0.2% was more beneficial in terms of better growth, higher yield and yield components of maize under moisture stress condition”
Claim · model-written summary
Early vegetative-stage spray improved maize growth and yield relative to late reproductive-stage spray.
- Treatment
- Early spray (vegetative stage)e0
- Outcome
- growth and higher yielde0
- Direction
- bettere0
- Comparator
- late spray (reproductive stage)e0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Early spray (vegetative stage) resulted in better growth and higher yield than late spray (reproductive stage)”
e1“maize crop”
Claim · model-written summary
Soil K treated plots had improved maize growth, yield and yield components over untreated controls.
- Treatment
- Soil Ke0
- Outcome
- growth, higher yield and yield componentse0
- Direction
- improvede0
- Comparator
- control (K not applied)e0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Soil K treated plots (rest) plots performed better than control (K not applied) in terms of improved growth, higher yield and yield components of maize crop”
Claim · model-written summary
Increasing soil K application up to the stated rate in two splits improved maize growth and productivity.
- Treatment
- soil applied K up to 90 kg P ha −1 in two equal splits (50% each at sowing and knee height)e0
- Outcome
- growth and maize productivitye0
- Direction
- improvee0
- Qualifier
- under semiarid climatese0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“increasing the rate of soil applied K up to 90 kg P ha −1 in two equal splits (50% each at sowing and knee height) improve growth and maize productivity under semiarid climates”
The same questions in other papers
zinc atom · yield · Zea mays (maize)Results differ
390 papers in the same direction as this paper · 47 in the opposite direction · 3 reporting no difference from an alternative
- positive
- negative
- negative
437 papers more in this group
See all 441 papers →potassium · yield · Zea mays (maize)Positive and negative results
290 papers in the same direction as this paper · 28 in the opposite direction · 1 reporting no difference from an alternative
- positive
- positive
- positive
316 papers more in this group
See all 320 papers →application · yield · Zea mays (maize)Positive and negative results
574 papers in the same direction as this paper · 42 in the opposite direction · 12 reporting no difference from an alternative
- positive
- positive
- positive
625 papers more in this group
See all 629 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.