Abstract
Zinc deficiency is a growing concern among the global population, and it can be attributed to the depletion of significant portions of agricultural land and the production of foods that are low in zinc. In the current study, an efficiency-centric method of maize cultivation with zinc oxide nanoparticles encapsulated in chitosan (Cs-ZnO NPs) is proposed and evaluated. In order to investigate, NPs were chemically synthesized using process improvement for better size and shape and characterized using Scanning electron microscope (SEM), Energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDS) and Transmission electron microscope (TEM). The NPs under characterization showed less than 100 nm diametric globular particles. A field experiment was conducted in randomized block design with six different treatments to study the impact of foliar applied Zn at various concentrations (50, 100, and 150 mg L-1) through Cs-ZnO NPs on plant growth, SPAD and grain yield in maize plant, with respect to foliar ZnSO4 @0.5 %, chitosan @150 mg L-1 and the control. The highest grain yield of 52.5 q ha-1 in maize was recorded with Zn supplied through Cs-ZnO NPs at 100 mg L-1, compare to other treatments. Similarly significant improvements in plant height and chlorophyll content were noted at 100 mg L-1 Zn through Cs-ZnO NPs. These results indicates that Cs-ZnO NPs can improve grain yield and plant growth performance of maize in a sustainable and efficiency centric manner.
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 4
Claim · model-written summary
Chitosan encapsulated ZnO nanoparticles had globular particles below 100 nm.
Zea maysOrganisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The NPs under characterization showed less than 100 nm diametric globular particles”
e1“maize cultivation with zinc oxide nanoparticles encapsulated in chitosan (Cs-ZnO NPs)”
Claim · model-written summary
Foliar Cs-ZnO at 100 mg L-1 gave the highest maize grain yield, 52.5 q ha-1.
- Treatment
- Zn supplied through Cs-ZnO NPs at 100 mg L-1e0
- Outcome
- grain yielde0
- Direction
- higheste0
- Value
- 52.5 q ha-1e0
- Comparator
- other treatmentse0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The highest grain yield of 52.5 q ha-1 in maize was recorded with Zn supplied through Cs-ZnO NPs at 100 mg L-1, compare to other treatments”
Claim · model-written summary
Foliar Cs-ZnO at 100 mg L-1 significantly improved maize plant height.
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Similarly significant improvements in plant height and chlorophyll content were noted at 100 mg L-1 Zn through Cs-ZnO NPs”
e1“maize plant”
Claim · model-written summary
Foliar Cs-ZnO at 100 mg L-1 significantly improved maize chlorophyll content.
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Similarly significant improvements in plant height and chlorophyll content were noted at 100 mg L-1 Zn through Cs-ZnO NPs”
e1“maize plant”
The same questions in other papers
zinc atom · physiology: pigments · Zea mays (maize)Results differ
30 papers in the same direction as this paper · 6 in the opposite direction
- negative
- negative
- negative
33 papers more in this group
See all 37 papers →zinc atom · growth · Zea mays (maize)Results differ
182 papers in the same direction as this paper · 41 in the opposite direction
- no effect
- no effect
- negative
220 papers more in this group
See all 224 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
- negative
- negative
- no effect
437 papers more in this group
See all 441 papers →nanoparticle · physiology: pigments · Zea mays (maize)Positive and negative results
43 papers in the same direction as this paper · 5 in the opposite direction · 1 reporting no difference from an alternative
- negative
- negative
- negative
46 papers more in this group
See all 50 papers →nanoparticle · growth · Zea mays (maize)Positive and negative results
160 papers in the same direction as this paper · 21 in the opposite direction
- negative
- negative
- negative
178 papers more in this group
See all 182 papers →nanoparticle · yield · Zea mays (maize)Positive and negative results
214 papers in the same direction as this paper · 11 in the opposite direction · 7 reporting no difference from an alternative
- negative
- no effect
- negative
229 papers more in this group
See all 233 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.