Claim · model-written summary
Salinity significantly reduced leaf turgid weight and leaf relative water content.
- Taxon
- Cucurbita maxima
Cucurbita maximat1 - Treatment
- salinitye4
- Outcome
- leaf turgid weight (LTW), leaf relative water content (LRWC)e4
- Direction
- reducede4
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Verbatim
e4“Physiological parameters such as leaf turgid weight (LTW), leaf relative water content (LRWC), vigor index (VI), and salt tolerance index (STI) were significantly reduced by salinity”
t1“Cucurbita maxima and Telfairia occidentalis”
Title
Okon G. Okon; Abdulnabi A. Matrood; Abdelhak Rhouma; et al. Nova Biotechnologica et Chimica 2022. doi:10.36547/nbc.1170
Other claims from this paper (12)
- Association Saline soil had a higher pH than garden soil.
- Association Saline soil had a higher electrical conductivity than garden soil.
- Association Saline soil had higher exchangeable sodium than garden soil.
- Association Saline soil had lower organic carbon, total nitrogen and available phosphorus.
- Association Fiber, carbohydrate and caloric value of leaves were slightly reduced in saline soil treatments.
- Association Ash, protein and lipid contents of leaves were slightly increased in saline soil treatments.
- Association Caloric value was significantly increased in non-saline soil treatments.
- Intervention effect Salinity significantly reduced vigor index and salt tolerance index.
- Intervention effect Electrolyte leakage was higher in saline than in non-saline soil treatments.
- Intervention effect AMF with poultry manure significantly increased leaf turgid weight and leaf relative water content in saline and non-saline soil.
- Intervention effect AMF with poultry manure significantly increased vigor index and salt tolerance index in saline and non-saline soil.
- Intervention effect Mycorrhizal inoculation reduced electrolyte leakage.