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The authors recommend germination, seedling, and drought tolerance indices for stress studies.
- Taxon
- sesame
Sesamum indicume1 - Outcome
- they should be used in all kinds of stress related studiese0
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e0“germination indices, seedling traits, and drought tolerance indices have great potential to simulate drought stress impacts on different crop traits thus they should be used in all kinds of stress related studies.”
e1“of sesame”
Title
Changes in Germination and Seedling Traits of Sesame under Simulated Drought
Mukhtar Ahmed; Ahmed M. S. Kheir; Muhammad Zeeshan Mehmood; et al. Phyton 2022. doi:10.32604/phyton.2022.018552
Other claims from this paper (10)
- Intervention effect The maximum reduction in sesame parameters occurred at 20% PEG.
- Intervention effect Both PEG treatments decreased sesame germination percentage, coefficient of variation of germination time, and germination index versus control.
- Intervention effect Both PEG treatments decreased sesame seedling vigor index versus control.
- Intervention effect Both PEG treatments significantly decreased sesame root length, shoot length, and root shoot ratio versus control.
- Intervention effect Both PEG treatments significantly decreased sesame root fresh weight, shoot fresh weight, and root dry weight versus control.
- Intervention effect Both PEG treatments significantly decreased sesame shoot dry weight versus control.
- Intervention effect Both PEG treatments reduced sesame germination, root length, and shoot length drought tolerance indices versus control.
- Intervention effect Both PEG treatments reduced sesame total seedling length, root fresh weight, and shoot fresh weight drought tolerance indices versus control.
- Intervention effect Both PEG treatments reduced sesame total fresh weight, root dry weight, and shoot dry weight drought tolerance indices versus control.
- Intervention effect Both PEG treatments reduced sesame total dry weight drought tolerance index versus control.