Claim · model-written summary
Combined cadmium and drought reduced stomatal conductance by 46%.
- Taxon
- wheat
Triticum aestivumt0 - Treatment
- dual stress of Cd and droughte0
- Outcome
- stomatal conductancee0
- Direction
- reductione0
- Value
- 46%e0
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Verbatim
e0“A significant reduction was observed in plant growth (44%), chlorophyll contents (47%), and stomatal conductance (46%) in plants under the dual stress of Cd and drought”
t0“wheat”
Title
Amnah M. Alamri; Hesham F. Alharby; Naqeeb ur Rahman; et al. International Journal of Phytoremediation 2025. doi:10.1080/15226514.2025.2594545
Other claims from this paper (13)
- Intervention effect Combined cadmium and drought reduced wheat growth by 44%.
- Intervention effect Combined cadmium and drought reduced chlorophyll contents by 47%.
- Intervention effect Combined cadmium and drought increased hydrogen peroxide and lipid peroxidation.
- Mechanism Combined cadmium and drought resulted in membrane damage.
- Intervention effect Zinc under combined stress increased wheat growth by 27%.
- Intervention effect Zinc under combined stress increased chlorophyll contents by 24%.
- Intervention effect Zinc under combined stress increased stomatal conductance by 27%.
- Intervention effect Zinc limited root-to-shoot cadmium transfer.
- Intervention effect Zinc lowered oxidative damage.
- Intervention effect Zinc increased catalase activity by 16%.
- Intervention effect Zinc increased superoxide dismutase activity by 18%.
- Intervention effect Zinc increased peroxidase activity by 17%.
- Recommendation The authors recommend exogenous zinc to mitigate cadmium phytotoxicity and improve phytostabilization under limited water.