Claim · model-written summary
Both treatments lowered sodium in shoots and roots.
- Taxon
- tomato seedlings
Solanum lycopersicumt0 - Organ / stage
- shoot and roote0
- Treatment
- these treatmentse0
- Outcome
- Na + concentrationse0
- Direction
- lowerede0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Verbatim
e0“these treatments caused significantly increased K + and lowered Na + concentrations in shoot and root under stress”
t0“tomato seedlings”
Title
Silicon and salicylic acid confer high-pH stress tolerance in tomato seedlings
Adil Khan; Muhammad Kamran; Muhammad Imran; et al. Scientific Reports 2019. doi:10.1038/s41598-019-55651-4
Other claims from this paper (8)
- Intervention effect Silicon treated seedlings had higher biomass, chlorophyll, leaf water and better roots under alkalinity.
- Intervention effect Salicylic acid treated seedlings had higher biomass, chlorophyll, leaf water and better roots under alkalinity.
- Intervention effect Silicon and salicylic acid lowered reactive oxygen species and lipid peroxidation under alkaline stress.
- Intervention effect Both treatments stimulated antioxidant enzyme activities.
- Intervention effect Both treatments increased potassium in shoots and roots.
- Intervention effect Both treatments modulated endogenous salicylic acid.
- Intervention effect Both treatments decreased abscisic acid in shoots and roots.
- Intervention effect Both treatments upregulated genes involved in silicon uptake, salicylic acid biosynthesis, antioxidant defense and rhizosphere acidification.