Claim · model-written summary
By the third harvest, leaf area was significantly lower under salinity than in controls.
- Taxon
- Sugar beet
Beta vulgaris subsp. vulgarist0 - Treatment
- salinizede1
- Outcome
- leaf areae1
- Direction
- lowere0
- Qualifier
- 3rd harvest (100 days after treatment)e0
- Comparator
- control plantse0
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Verbatim
e0“at 3rd harvest (100 days after treatment) it was significantly lower compared with control plants without cultivar differences”
t0“Sugar beet (Beta vulgaris L.)”
e1“Production of greater leaf area in salinized plants occurred only transitionally in the early growth period”
Title
Mild salinity improves sugar beet (Beta vulgarisL.) quality
Roghieh Hajiboland; Arshad Joudmand; Keivan Fotouhi Acta Agriculturae Scandinavica Section B - Soil & Plant Science 2008. doi:10.1080/09064710802154714
Other claims from this paper (6)
- Intervention effect Salinity transiently increased leaf area early in growth.
- Intervention effect Leaf chlorophyll fluorescence, photosynthesis and stomatal conductance did not change significantly with salinity.
- Intervention effect Late-season leaf area and photosynthesizing components were significantly lower under salinity.
- Intervention effect Storage root weight was up to 90% higher under salinity.
- Intervention effect Sugar content was up to 37% higher under salinity.
- Mechanism The authors attribute higher yield under mild salinity to altered allocation toward roots rather than greater photosynthetic area.