Claim · model-written summary
Brassinosteroids increased sugar beet root diameter.
- Taxon
- Sugar beet
Beta vulgaris subsp. vulgarise1 - Organ / stage
- roote1
- Treatment
- BRse0
- Outcome
- root diametere0
- Direction
- increasinge0
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundInteractorInteractor roleSecond interactorSecond interactor roleComparatorSettingValueQualifier
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“BRs increased the spacing between the cambial rings by increasing the size of parenchyma cells between the rings and ultimately increasing root diameter.”
e1“Sugar beet ( Beta vulgaris L.) is a root crop”
Title
Wei Wang; Yaqing Sun; Guolong Li; et al. Plant Direct 2021. doi:10.1002/pld3.340
Other claims from this paper (4)
- Intervention effect Brassinosteroids increased spacing between cambial rings in sugar beet roots.
- Intervention effect Brassinosteroids increased parenchyma cell size between cambial rings in sugar beet roots.
- Intervention effect Brassinosteroids promoted secondary xylem differentiation in sugar beet.
- Mechanism Gene expression analysis suggested brassinosteroids promote sugar beet cell wall growth.