Claim · model-written summary
Foliar H2O2 at 100 µM gave the maximum 12.2% improvement in 100-grain weight.
- Taxon
- bread wheat
Triticum aestivumt0 - Treatment
- H 2 O 2 was foliage‐applied at 100 μ me3
- Outcome
- 100‐grain weighte3
- Direction
- improvemente3
- Value
- 12.2%e3
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Verbatim
t0“bread wheat”
e3“Maximum improvement in 100‐grain weight (12.2%), grains per spike (19.7%), water‐use efficiency (WUE; 19.8%), chlorophyll content index (10.7%), total soluble phenolics (21.6%) and free leaf proline (34.3%), and highest reduction in leaf malondialdehyde contents (20.4%) was recorded when H 2 O 2 was foliage‐applied at 100 μ m”
Title
M. Farooq; A. Nawaz; M. A. M. Chaudhary; et al. Journal of Agronomy and Crop Science 2017. doi:10.1111/jac.12215
Other claims from this paper (17)
- Intervention effect Terminal drought significantly reduced grain yield of both bread wheat cultivars.
- Intervention effect Foliage application of H2O2 and SNP at either concentration improved the performance of both bread wheat cultivars under terminal drought.
- Intervention effect Foliar H2O2 at 100 µM gave the maximum 19.7% improvement in grains per spike.
- Intervention effect Foliar H2O2 at 100 µM gave the maximum 19.8% improvement in water-use efficiency.
- Intervention effect Foliar H2O2 at 100 µM gave the maximum 10.7% improvement in chlorophyll content index.
- Intervention effect Foliar H2O2 at 100 µM gave the maximum 21.6% improvement in total soluble phenolics.
- Intervention effect Foliar H2O2 at 100 µM gave the maximum 34.3% improvement in free leaf proline.
- Intervention effect Foliar H2O2 at 100 µM gave the highest 20.4% reduction in leaf malondialdehyde content.
- Intervention effect Foliar SNP enhanced grains per spike by 14.9% compared with control.
- Intervention effect Foliar SNP enhanced 100-grain weight by 11.3% compared with control.
- Intervention effect Foliar SNP enhanced grain yield by 20.1% compared with control.
- Intervention effect Foliar stress signalling molecules increased accumulation of soluble phenolics, proline and glycine betaine in bread wheat.
- Mechanism Reduced malondialdehyde let bread wheat sustain biological membranes under stress.
- Intervention effect Foliar stress signalling molecules gave better stay green under drought in bread wheat.
- Intervention effect Foliar stress signalling molecules improved grain number, grain weight and grain yield in bread wheat.
- Intervention effect Foliar stress signalling molecules improved water-use efficiency and transpiration efficiency in bread wheat.
- Recommendation Foliar H2O2 and SNP may lessen drought-induced yield losses in bread wheat under climate change.