Claim · model-written summary
PEG significantly lowered vigour index in wheat.
- Taxon
- wheat
Triticum aestivumt0 - Treatment
- PEG treatmente0
- Outcome
- vigour indexe0
- Direction
- lowere0
- Comparator
- control conditione0
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Verbatim
e0“Among the 100 genotypes the rate of germination percentage, final germination (%), root and shoot dry weight, amount of respiration and vigour index under PEG treatment was found significantly lower than that of control condition.”
t0“wheat”
Title
RR Saha; A Hannan; A Nessa; et al. SAARC Journal of Agriculture 2018. doi:10.3329/sja.v15i2.35147
Other claims from this paper (14)
- Intervention effect PEG significantly lowered rate of germination percentage in wheat.
- Intervention effect PEG significantly lowered final germination (%) in wheat.
- Intervention effect PEG significantly lowered root and shoot dry weight in wheat.
- Intervention effect PEG significantly lowered amount of respiration in wheat.
- Intervention effect The decrease in rate of germination was greater at 25% PEG than 15% PEG.
- Intervention effect The decrease in final germination was greater at 25% PEG than 15% PEG.
- Intervention effect The decrease in amount of respiration was greater at 25% PEG than 15% PEG.
- Intervention effect The decrease in vigour index was greater at 25% PEG than 15% PEG.
- Intervention effect Seed metabolic efficiency was significantly higher at 15% PEG than control.
- Intervention effect Seed metabolic efficiency was significantly higher at 25% PEG than control.
- Association Germination, shoot and root dry weight, and vigour index correlated positively.
- Observation BD-480, BD-498, BD- 501 were selected as drought tolerant.
- Observation BD-513, BD-514, BD-519 were selected as drought tolerant.
- Observation BD-592, BD-618 and BD- 633 were selected as drought tolerant.