Claim · model-written summary
Salicylic acid reduced chlorophyll ratio and lipid peroxidation in copper stressed plants.
- Taxon
- Sunflower
Helianthus annuust0 - Treatment
- Salicylic acid (SA)e0
- Outcome
- Chl a/b ratio and the level of lipid peroxidatione0
- Direction
- reducede0
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Verbatim
e0“Salicylic acid (SA) significantly reduced the Chl a/b ratio and the level of lipid peroxidation in Cu-stressed plants.”
t0“Sunflower”
Title
Salicylic Acid-induced Adaptive Response to Copper Stress in Sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.)
M.A. El-tayeb; A.E. El-Enany; N.l. Ahmed International Journal of Botany 2006. doi:10.3923/ijb.2006.372.379
Other claims from this paper (5)
- Intervention effect Excess copper reduced organ weights and pigments.
- Intervention effect Copper increased chlorophyll ratio and lipid peroxidation.
- Intervention effect Copper decreased root sugars and amino acids.
- Intervention effect Copper increased leaf sugars, stem and leaf amino acids and proline in all organs.
- Intervention effect Salicylic acid increased soluble sugars, proteins, amino acids and proline under copper stress.