Claim · model-written summary
Soil drying limited shoot growth of maize seedlings compared with control plants.
- Treatment
- soil drying treatmente3
- Outcome
- shoot growthe3
- Direction
- limitatione3
- Comparator
- Control plantse4
Zea maysNot reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageInteractorInteractor roleSecond interactorSecond interactor roleSettingValueQualifier
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Verbatim
e1“Maize seedlings ( Zea mays L. John Innes F1 hybrid)”
e3“The soil drying treatment resulted in a substantial restriction of stomatal conductance and a limitation in shoot growth”
e4“Control plants were watered every day during the 20‐d experimental period”
Title
J. ZHANG; W. J. DAVIES Plant Cell & Environment 1990. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3040.1990.tb01312.x
Other claims from this paper (5)
- Intervention effect Soil drying substantially restricted stomatal conductance in greenhouse-grown maize seedlings compared with daily watering.
- Intervention effect Soil drying produced no detectable difference in the water relations of maize seedlings.
- Intervention effect Xylem ABA concentrations were substantially increased by soil drying from day 7 onward.
- Intervention effect Leaf ABA content showed no significant difference between well-watered and unwatered maize plants.
- Mechanism Increased xylem ABA concentration caused by soil drying is adequate to explain the observed variation in stomatal conductance of maize.