Claim · model-written summary
Seed priming with 0.05 mM PNC increased epidermal cell length in cotton hypocotyl by 21%.
- Taxon
- cotton
Gossypium hirsutumt0 - Organ / stage
- epidermise0
- Treatment
- seed priming with 0.05 mM PNCe0
- Outcome
- cell lengthse0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Value
- 21%e0
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Verbatim
t0“promotes cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.)”
e0“the cell lengths of the epidermis, endodermis, xylem, and pith in cotton hypocotyl increased by 21%, 17%, 31%, and 21%, respectively upon seed priming with 0.05 mM PNC”
Title
Xianyuan Gao; Miaoyu Chen; Mingwei Du; et al. Plant Physiology and Biochemistry 2026. doi:10.1016/j.plaphy.2026.111067
Other claims from this paper (11)
- Intervention effect Seed priming with PNC significantly increased cotton hypocotyl elongation by 13%-37% in a pot experiment.
- Intervention effect PNC seed priming increased seedling emergence rate by 15%-16% in the field.
- Observation Transcriptome analysis identified PNC-induced differentially expressed genes related to auxin and brassinosteroid biosynthesis, including GhTAA1, GhYUCCA, GhALDH, GhGH3 and GhCYPs.
- Observation Transcriptome analysis identified PNC-induced differentially expressed genes in signal transduction, including GhSAUR and GhBZR1.
- Intervention effect PNC priming increased IAA accumulation in cotton hypocotyls by 10%-25%.
- Intervention effect PNC priming increased BR accumulation in cotton hypocotyls by 86%-100%.
- Intervention effect PNC enhanced the expression of XTH genes in cotton.
- Mechanism Cell elongation of cotton hypocotyl is critical and regulated by SAUR and BZR1 through IAA and BR signalling.
- Intervention effect Seed priming with 0.05 mM PNC increased endodermal cell length in cotton hypocotyl by 17%.
- Intervention effect Seed priming with 0.05 mM PNC increased xylem cell length in cotton hypocotyl by 31%.
- Intervention effect Seed priming with 0.05 mM PNC increased pith cell length in cotton hypocotyl by 21%.