Claim · model-written summary
Both PEG treatments reduced sesame total fresh weight, root dry weight, and shoot dry weight drought tolerance indices versus control.
- Taxon
- sesame
Sesamum indicume1 - Treatment
- 10% and 20% PEG treatmentse0
- Outcome
- total fresh weight drought tolerance index, root dry weight drought tolerance index, shoot dry weight drought tolerance indexe0
- Direction
- reducede0
- Comparator
- controle0
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Verbatim
e0“relative to control, the values for drought tolerance indices, such as germination drought tolerance index, root length drought tolerance index, shoot length drought tolerance index, total seedling length drought tolerance index, root fresh weight drought tolerance index, shoot fresh weight drought tolerance index, total fresh weight drought tolerance index, root dry weight drought tolerance index, shoot dry weight drought tolerance index and total dry weight drought tolerance index were also reduced under 10% and 20% PEG treatments”
e1“of sesame”
Title
Changes in Germination and Seedling Traits of Sesame under Simulated Drought
Mukhtar Ahmed; Ahmed M. S. Kheir; Muhammad Zeeshan Mehmood; et al. Phyton 2022. doi:10.32604/phyton.2022.018552
Other claims from this paper (10)
- Intervention effect The maximum reduction in sesame parameters occurred at 20% PEG.
- Intervention effect Both PEG treatments decreased sesame germination percentage, coefficient of variation of germination time, and germination index versus control.
- Intervention effect Both PEG treatments decreased sesame seedling vigor index versus control.
- Intervention effect Both PEG treatments significantly decreased sesame root length, shoot length, and root shoot ratio versus control.
- Intervention effect Both PEG treatments significantly decreased sesame root fresh weight, shoot fresh weight, and root dry weight versus control.
- Intervention effect Both PEG treatments significantly decreased sesame shoot dry weight versus control.
- Intervention effect Both PEG treatments reduced sesame germination, root length, and shoot length drought tolerance indices versus control.
- Intervention effect Both PEG treatments reduced sesame total seedling length, root fresh weight, and shoot fresh weight drought tolerance indices versus control.
- Intervention effect Both PEG treatments reduced sesame total dry weight drought tolerance index versus control.
- Recommendation The authors recommend germination, seedling, and drought tolerance indices for stress studies.