Claim · model-written summary
Root growth was less affected by salinity than leaf and stem growth.
- Taxon
- Mexican oreganoe1
- Treatment
- salinitye0
- Outcome
- Root growthe0
- Direction
- less affectede0
- Comparator
- leaf and stem growthe0
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageInteractorInteractor roleSecond interactorSecond interactor roleSettingValueQualifier
Verbatim
e0“Root growth was less affected by salinity than leaf and stem growth.”
e1“Mexican oregano (Lippia berlandieri)”
Title
GROWTH CHARACTERISTICS OF MEXICAN OREGANO (LIPPIA BERLANDIERI SCHAUER) UNDER SALT STRESS
Ricardo Mata-González; Rubén Meléndez-González The Southwestern Naturalist 2005. doi:10.1894/0038-4909(2005)050<0001:gcomol>2.0.co;2
Other claims from this paper (5)
- Intervention effect Relative growth rate decreased linearly as osmotic potential declined from control to −1.20 MPa.
- Intervention effect Leaf weight decreased ninefold from control to −1.20 MPa.
- Observation Mexican oregano was concluded to be moderately salt tolerant compared with other non-halophytes.
- Observation Relative growth rate ranged from 0.01 to 0.08 g/g/d.
- Observation The low relative growth rates suggest slow recovery in native stands under continuous harvesting.