Abstract
Nanotechnology has become a solution to most of the problems facing humans nowadays. In agriculture, nanofertilizers play a pioneer role to enrich crop productivity and minimize environmental pollution problems. In this paper we investigate the possible effects of using two engineered nanomaterials nanochitosan (Cs) or carbon nanotubes (CNTs) either alone or loaded with NPK as fertilizers on French bean plants. The new approach used was to compare between two different methods of application: seed priming and foliar application. From the obtained results, it is apparent that foliar application is better than seed priming. This is evident from the improvement of growth, yield, and antioxidant system of plants and biochemical content of yielded seeds of foliar application than in seed priming as compared with control. In addition, foliar treatment shortened the days to harvest without reducing yield by 37.5% (80 days) as compared with control and seed priming treatment (110 days). Of interest, Cs nanoparticles appeared to improve growth and yield parameters more than CNTs in foliar application treatment. In conclusion, foliar application of nanofertilizers holds tremendous potential to improve crop productivity and we recommend the use of nanofertilizers as foliar application.
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Claim · model-written summary
Foliar application improved plant growth and yield more than seed priming relative to control.
- Taxon
- French bean plants
Phaseolus vulgarist0 - Treatment
- foliar applicatione0
- Outcome
- growth, yielde0
- Direction
- improvemente0
- Comparator
- seed priminge0
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Verbatim
e0“foliar application is better than seed priming. This is evident from the improvement of growth, yield, and antioxidant system of plants and biochemical content of yielded seeds of foliar application than in seed priming as compared with control.”
t0“French bean plants”
Claim · model-written summary
Foliar application improved antioxidant system and seed biochemical content relative to seed priming.
- Taxon
- French bean plantsPhaseolus vulgarist0
- Treatment
- foliar applicatione0
- Outcome
- antioxidant system of plants and biochemical content of yielded seedse0
- Direction
- improvemente0
- Comparator
- seed priminge0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“improvement of growth, yield, and antioxidant system of plants and biochemical content of yielded seeds of foliar application than in seed priming as compared with control.”
t0“French bean plants”
Claim · model-written summary
Foliar treatment shortened time to harvest by 37.5%, to 80 days, versus 110 days for control and seed priming.
- Taxon
- French bean plantsPhaseolus vulgarist0
- Treatment
- foliar treatmente0
- Outcome
- days to harveste0
- Direction
- shortenede0
- Value
- 37.5%e0
- Qualifier
- 80 dayse0
- Comparator
- control and seed priming treatmente0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“foliar treatment shortened the days to harvest without reducing yield by 37.5% (80 days) as compared with control and seed priming treatment (110 days).”
t0“French bean plants”
Claim · model-written summary
Foliar treatment did not reduce yield compared with control and seed priming.
- Taxon
- French bean plantsPhaseolus vulgarist0
- Treatment
- foliar treatmente0
- Outcome
- yielde0
- Direction
- without reducinge0
- Comparator
- control and seed priming treatmente0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“foliar treatment shortened the days to harvest without reducing yield by 37.5% (80 days) as compared with control and seed priming treatment (110 days).”
t0“French bean plants”
Claim · model-written summary
Foliar Cs nanoparticles improved growth and yield more than CNTs.
- Taxon
- French bean plantsPhaseolus vulgarist0
- Treatment
- Cs nanoparticlese0
- Outcome
- growth and yield parameterse0
- Direction
- improvee0
- Comparator
- CNTse0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Cs nanoparticles appeared to improve growth and yield parameters more than CNTs in foliar application treatment.”
t0“French bean plants”
Claim · model-written summary
The authors recommend foliar application of nanofertilizers to improve crop productivity.
- Taxon
- French bean plantsPhaseolus vulgarist0
- Outcome
- use of nanofertilizers as foliar applicatione0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“foliar application of nanofertilizers holds tremendous potential to improve crop productivity and we recommend the use of nanofertilizers as foliar application.”
t0“French bean plants”
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