Claim · model-written summary
Copper reduced PSII productivity, electron transport rate and photochemical quenching.
- Taxon
- wheat
Triticum aestivumt0 - Treatment
- Metal toxicitye0
- Outcome
- productivity of PSII, electron transport rate, and photochemical quenchinge0
- Direction
- maximum reductione0
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Verbatim
t0“wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) crop”
e0“Metal toxicity caused the maximum reduction in productivity of PSII, electron transport rate, and photochemical quenching”
Title
Sibgha Noreen; Muhammad Salim Akhter; Tayyaba Yaamin; et al. Journal of Plant Interactions 2018. doi:10.1080/17429145.2018.1437480
Other claims from this paper (14)
- Intervention effect Copper reduced wheat biomass accumulation.
- Intervention effect Copper reduced wheat chlorophyll a and b contents.
- Intervention effect Copper reduced wheat 100-grain weight.
- Intervention effect Copper significantly decreased stomatal conductance and internal CO2 concentration.
- Intervention effect Copper significantly decreased photosynthetic rate and water-use efficiency.
- Intervention effect Copper significantly decreased transpiration rate.
- Intervention effect Copper increased non-photochemical quenching.
- Intervention effect Copper accelerated superoxide dismutase, catalase and peroxidase activities.
- Intervention effect Copper increased proline, protein and calcium contents.
- Intervention effect Copper reduced calcium, magnesium and potassium uptake.
- Intervention effect Copper increased calcium assimilation.
- Intervention effect Foliar proline mitigated the adverse effects of copper stress.
- Intervention effect Foliar proline reduced reactive oxygen species generation under copper stress.
- Intervention effect Foliar proline enhanced proline and protein accumulation under copper stress.