Enhancing Micronutrient Availability Through Humic Substances and Vermicompost While Growing Artichoke Plants in Calcareous Soil: Insights from a Two-Year Field Study.

Mohamed Hafez, Zhao Zhang, Mahmoud Younis, Mahmoud A Abdelhamid, Mohamed Rashad

Abstract read

In one paragraph

Article in Plants (Basel, Switzerland), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

0numbers the graph read from it

0cells of the map it votes in

1citing papers in PubMed

–field-weighted citation impact

1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

Organic amendments boost maize yield (Frontiers in plant science · 2026
Article

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Mohamed HafezLand and Water Technologies Department, Arid Lands Cultivation Research Institute (ALCRI), City of Scientific Research and Technological Applications (SRTA-City), New Borg El-Arab 21934, Egypt.ORCID 0000-0001-9269-2128

Zhao ZhangKey Laboratory of Agricultural Information Acquisition Technology, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100083, China.ORCID 0000-0001-6353-4067

Mahmoud YounisChair of Dates Industry and Technology, Department of Agricultural Engineering, College of Food and Agricultural Sciences, King Saud University, P.O. Box 2460, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0001-9677-7882

Mahmoud A AbdelhamidAgricultural Engineering Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Ain Shams University, Cairo 11241, Egypt.ORCID 0000-0002-0709-1836

Mohamed RashadLand and Water Technologies Department, Arid Lands Cultivation Research Institute (ALCRI), City of Scientific Research and Technological Applications (SRTA-City), New Borg El-Arab 21934, Egypt.ORCID 0000-0003-0608-1916

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Calcareous soil poses challenges for crop production due to the limited availability of micronutrients in insoluble forms. This study evaluated various organic and biological treatments for managing deficiencies in iron, zinc, and manganese in artichoke (

Indexed as

artichokecalcareoushumic substancesiron chlorosisrecyclingvermicompost

Identifiers

PMID40284112

DOI10.3390/plants14081224

PMCPMC12030382

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata

LicenceCC BY

Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.