Claim · model-written summary
Full recovery of onion roots was observed only after treatment with cyanamide at low concentration (2-6 mM).
- Taxon
- onion
Allium cepae0 - Treatment
- low concentration (2-6 mM)e5
- Outcome
- full recoverye5
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Verbatim
e0“roots of onion (Allium cepa L.) bulbs”
e5“full recovery was observed only for tissue treated with this chemical at low concentration (2-6 mM)”
Title
Dorota Soltys; Anna Rudzińska-Langwald; Wojciech Kurek; et al. Planta 2011. doi:10.1007/s00425-011-1429-5
Other claims from this paper (8)
- Intervention effect Cyanamide restricted onion root growth in a dose-dependent manner.
- Intervention effect Cyanamide decreased the root growth rate of onion.
- Intervention effect Cyanamide decreased the accumulation of fresh and dry weight of onion roots.
- Intervention effect Removal of cyanamide from the environment reversed its inhibitory effect on onion roots.
- Mechanism Disturbances in cell division may explain the allelopathic activity of cyanamide on onion.
- Intervention effect Cyanamide reduced the number of mitotic cells in onion roots.
- Intervention effect Cyanamide inhibited proliferation of meristematic cells and the cell cycle in onion roots.
- Intervention effect Cyanamide modified the cytoskeleton arrangement in onion roots.