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Abstract
The nutritional and environmental parameters required for eliciting increases in the nitrogen content and growth of corn (Zea mays L.) by non-toxic levels of simazine have been established. Corn seedlings with the endosperm removed 10 days after germination, proved to be a suitable test species. The addition of simazine to the root-zone area of corn plants grown under both sub-optimal temperatures and low nitrate levels, increased the nitrogen content and dry weight of the plants by 20 to 25%. This increase was found to be associated with an effect on nitrate reductase.Entities:
Year: 1967 PMID: 16656504 PMCID: PMC1086525 DOI: 10.1104/pp.42.2.280
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Plant Physiol ISSN: 0032-0889 Impact factor: 8.340