Claim · model-written summary
Nitrogen deficiency most reduced shoot and root dry weight and their ratio.
- Taxon
- Castor Bean
Ricinus communist0 - Treatment
- N deficiencye0
- Outcome
- shoot, root dry weight and root shoot ratioe0
- Direction
- decreasee0
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Verbatim
e0“shoot, root dry weight and root shoot ratio had the greatest decrease under N deficiency”
t0“Urea Fertilization: Effects on Growth, Nutrient Uptake and Root Development of the Biodiesel Plant, Castor Bean (Ricinus communis L.)”
Title
K. Nahar; W. Pan American Journal of Experimental Agriculture 2014. doi:10.9734/ajea/2015/12729
Other claims from this paper (7)
- Intervention effect Higher nitrogen increased castor vegetative growth and biomass.
- Intervention effect Elevated nitrogen increased height, organ dimensions and root numbers.
- Intervention effect Elevated nitrogen increased root and shoot dry weight and root to shoot ratio.
- Intervention effect Elevated nitrogen increased nitrogen and crude protein content.
- Intervention effect Nitrogen deficiency increased root to shoot carbon ratio.
- Intervention effect Shoot and root nitrogen percentage and shoot carbon percentage did not differ statistically by treatment.
- Intervention effect Root carbon content was significantly higher at the lowest nitrogen level.