Abstract
Cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) is an important vegetable and its demand remains around the year. High quality and yield are desired quality for both grower and consumers. Therefore, influence of seed priming and foliar application of zinc nano particles was checked on yield and quality of cucumber. ZnO nano particles are non-toxic and recently listed as “Generally Recognized as Safe (GRAS)” safe material by food and drug administration and use as food additive. Due to interaction of nano particles with plant, many physiological and morphological changes take place depending on the characteristic of Nanoparticles. By the exploitation of new application of nanotechnology crop yield can be increased. In plants, nano particles as a zinc fertilizer with small size and large surface area are predicted to be an ideal material to use. Zinc is one of the vital nutrients required for plant growth Result indicate that zinc nano particles at 20 ppm concentration increased seed germination as well as physical parameters plant height, number of leaves, leaf area, number of flower, yield, fruit weight, fruit length, fruit diameter, average single fruit weight, fruit firmness and fruit color was increased. Furthermore, chemical parameters like total soluble solids, ascorbic acid and titratable acidity was increased at 20 ppm zinc nano particles as compared to control and other treatments. Present research proves that seed priming and foliar application of zinc nano particles are effective for improving fruit physical and chemical characteristics. The finding of this research work will be helpful in future research on utilization of nano particles for vegetable crops.
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Claim · model-written summary
Twenty ppm zinc nanoparticles increased cucumber seed germination.
- Taxon
- cucumber
Cucumis sativust0 - Treatment
- zinc nano particles at 20 ppm concentratione2
- Outcome
- seed germinatione0
- Direction
- increasede0
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e0“zinc nano particles at 20 ppm concentration increased seed germination”
t0“Cucumber”
e2“zinc nano particles at 20 ppm concentration increased seed germination”
Claim · model-written summary
Twenty ppm zinc nanoparticles increased cucumber height, leaf number and leaf area.
- Taxon
- cucumberCucumis sativust0
- Treatment
- zinc nano particles at 20 ppm concentratione2
- Outcome
- plant height, number of leaves, leaf areae0
- Direction
- increasede0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“zinc nano particles at 20 ppm concentration increased seed germination as well as physical parameters plant height, number of leaves, leaf area”
t0“Cucumber”
e2“zinc nano particles at 20 ppm concentration increased seed germination”
Claim · model-written summary
Twenty ppm zinc nanoparticles increased cucumber flower number, yield and fruit weight.
- Taxon
- cucumberCucumis sativust0
- Treatment
- zinc nano particles at 20 ppm concentratione2
- Outcome
- number of flower, yield, fruit weighte0
- Direction
- increasede0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“zinc nano particles at 20 ppm concentration increased seed germination as well as physical parameters plant height, number of leaves, leaf area, number of flower, yield, fruit weight”
t0“Cucumber”
e2“zinc nano particles at 20 ppm concentration increased seed germination”
Claim · model-written summary
Twenty ppm zinc nanoparticles increased fruit length, diameter and mean single-fruit weight.
- Taxon
- cucumberCucumis sativust0
- Treatment
- zinc nano particles at 20 ppm concentratione2
- Outcome
- fruit length, fruit diameter, average single fruit weighte0
- Direction
- increasede0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“fruit length, fruit diameter, average single fruit weight, fruit firmness and fruit color was increased”
t0“Cucumber”
e2“zinc nano particles at 20 ppm concentration increased seed germination”
Claim · model-written summary
Twenty ppm zinc nanoparticles increased fruit firmness and color.
- Taxon
- cucumberCucumis sativust0
- Treatment
- zinc nano particles at 20 ppm concentratione2
- Outcome
- fruit firmness and fruit colore0
- Direction
- increasede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“fruit firmness and fruit color was increased”
t0“Cucumber”
e2“zinc nano particles at 20 ppm concentration increased seed germination”
Claim · model-written summary
Twenty ppm zinc nanoparticles increased soluble solids, ascorbic acid and titratable acidity versus control and other treatments.
- Taxon
- cucumberCucumis sativust0
- Treatment
- 20 ppm zinc nano particlese2
- Outcome
- total soluble solids, ascorbic acid and titratable aciditye0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Comparator
- control and other treatmentse0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“total soluble solids, ascorbic acid and titratable acidity was increased at 20 ppm zinc nano particles as compared to control and other treatments”
t0“Cucumber”
e2“total soluble solids, ascorbic acid and titratable acidity was increased at 20 ppm zinc nano particles as compared to control and other treatments”
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