Abstract
Climate variability presents a significant challenge to global food security in arid and semi-arid regions. A field experiment was conducted at the Experimental Farm of the Faculty of Environmental Agricultural Sciences, Arish University at North Sinai in Egypt. The aim of this study was to test and evaluate the effect of the applied foliar application of seaweed extract (SWE) and selenium-nanoparticles (Se-NPs), individually and in combination, on improvement of vegetative growth and yield of quinoa cultivar (Masr3) across two successive growing winter seasons. A randomized complete block design in a split-plot arrangement was followed with two levels of SWE (0 and 3000 mg/L) and four Se-NPs concentrations (0, 0.5, 1.0, and 2.0 ppm). The results indicated that both SWE and Se-NPs significantly enhanced vegetative and yield traits, with the combined application producing the highest performance across all parameters. Also, the foliar co-application of seaweed extract (3000 mg/L) and nano-selenium (2 ppm) appeared a highly significant enhancement in both vegetative growth parameters and yield components, highlighting a synergistic effect that increased physiological activity, nutrient uptake, and plant productivity. Therefore, integrating bio-stimulants, such as seaweed extract, with low-dose nano-selenium offers a sustainable strategy for improving quinoa productivity under climate stress is suggested. The combined use of natural and nano-based foliar sprays holds potential for broader application in climate-smart agriculture.
Abstract from the paper’s OpenAlex record; open copy licensed cc-by-nc-sa. 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 6
Claim · model-written summary
Seaweed extract significantly enhanced vegetative and yield traits.
- Taxon
- quinoa
Chenopodium quinoat0 - Treatment
- SWEe0
- Outcome
- vegetative and yield traitse0
- Direction
- enhancede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“both SWE and Se-NPs significantly enhanced vegetative and yield traits”
t0“Quinoa Plant”
Claim · model-written summary
Selenium nanoparticles significantly enhanced vegetative and yield traits.
- Taxon
- quinoaChenopodium quinoat0
- Treatment
- Se-NPse0
- Outcome
- vegetative and yield traitse0
- Direction
- enhancede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“both SWE and Se-NPs significantly enhanced vegetative and yield traits”
t0“Quinoa Plant”
Claim · model-written summary
Combined application produced the highest performance across parameters.
- Taxon
- quinoaChenopodium quinoat0
- Treatment
- combined applicatione0
- Outcome
- performance across all parameterse0
- Direction
- higheste0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“the combined application producing the highest performance across all parameters”
t0“Quinoa Plant”
Claim · model-written summary
The specified combined spray significantly enhanced growth and yield components.
- Taxon
- quinoaChenopodium quinoat0
- Treatment
- foliar co-application of seaweed extract (3000 mg/L) and nano-selenium (2 ppm)e0
- Outcome
- vegetative growth parameters and yield componentse0
- Direction
- enhancemente0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“the foliar co-application of seaweed extract (3000 mg/L) and nano-selenium (2 ppm) appeared a highly significant enhancement in both vegetative growth parameters and yield components”
t0“Quinoa Plant”
Claim · model-written summary
The combined spray was interpreted as increasing physiological activity and nutrient uptake.
- Taxon
- quinoaChenopodium quinoat0
- Treatment
- foliar co-applicatione1
- Outcome
- physiological activity, nutrient uptakee0
- Direction
- increasede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“highlighting a synergistic effect that increased physiological activity, nutrient uptake, and plant productivity”
t0“Quinoa Plant”
e1“the foliar co-application of seaweed extract (3000 mg/L) and nano-selenium (2 ppm) appeared a highly significant enhancement in both vegetative growth parameters and yield components”
Claim · model-written summary
Authors suggest integrating seaweed extract with low-dose nano-selenium for quinoa productivity.
- Taxon
- quinoaChenopodium quinoat0
- Outcome
- integrating bio-stimulants, such as seaweed extract, with low-dose nano-seleniume0
Not reportedDirection
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“integrating bio-stimulants, such as seaweed extract, with low-dose nano-selenium offers a sustainable strategy for improving quinoa productivity under climate stress is suggested”
t0“Quinoa Plant”
The same questions in other papers
other · yield · Chenopodium quinoa (quinoa)Positive and negative results
2 papers in the same direction as this paper · 1 in the opposite direction
- no effect
- positive
- positive
application · yield · Chenopodium quinoa (quinoa)Positive and negative results
7 papers in the same direction as this paper · 1 in the opposite direction
- no effect
- positive
- positive
5 papers more in this group
See all 9 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.