Claim · model-written summary
Silicon under salt stress reduced sodium content.
- Taxon
- alfalfa
Medicago sativat0 - Treatment
- exogenously applying Si under salt stresse0
- Outcome
- Na contente0
- Direction
- droppede0
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Verbatim
e0“After exogenously applying Si under salt stress, the EL, MDA, proline and Na content, except SOD activity, were observed to be dropped”
t0“alfalfa”
e1“Seedlings were treated with 200 mM NaCl plus three silicon levels (0, 0.75 and 1.5 mM) for 1 week”
Title
Amelioration of salt‐induced damage on alfalfa by exogenous application of silicon
Weihong Zhang; Yan Xie; Ya Wu; et al. Grassland Science 2021. doi:10.1111/grs.12336
Other claims from this paper (11)
- Intervention effect Salt stress impaired alfalfa growth, including height, root length and biomass.
- Intervention effect Salt stress affected chlorophyll and fluorescence.
- Intervention effect Salt stress affected potassium concentration and potassium to sodium ratio.
- Intervention effect Salt stress significantly raised electrolyte leakage and SOD activity.
- Intervention effect Salt stress significantly raised sodium, proline and malondialdehyde.
- Intervention effect Salt stress significantly raised soluble sugar and protein content.
- Intervention effect Silicon under salt stress reduced electrolyte leakage, malondialdehyde and proline.
- Intervention effect SOD activity was the exception to the silicon-related decreases.
- Intervention effect Silicon under salt stress increased chlorophyll a, b and total chlorophyll.
- Intervention effect Silicon under salt stress increased soluble sugar and chlorophyll fluorescence.
- Intervention effect Silicon was more protective at 0.75 than 1.5 mM.