Claim · model-written summary
Marine aquarium salt (MAS) treatment better maintained water content of Vicia faba.
- Taxon
- Vicia faba
Vicia fabat0 - Treatment
- MASe2
- Outcome
- water contente2
- Direction
- better maintainede2
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Verbatim
t0“Vicia faba”
e2“The MAS-treated plants better maintained their water content and exhibited higher root nodule weight and chlorophyll content”
Title
Comparing the effect of marine aquarium salts and sodium chloride on Vicia faba stress response
Bethany Smerdon The Plymouth student scientist 2025. doi:10.70156/1754-2383.1520
Other claims from this paper (5)
- Intervention effect NaCl treatment reduced shoot growth of Vicia faba compared with control and MAS-treated plants.
- Intervention effect NaCl treatment lowered relative water content of Vicia faba compared with control and MAS-treated plants.
- Intervention effect NaCl treatment increased proline accumulation in Vicia faba compared with control and MAS-treated plants.
- Intervention effect Marine aquarium salt (MAS) treatment gave higher root nodule weight in Vicia faba.
- Intervention effect Marine aquarium salt (MAS) treatment gave higher chlorophyll content in Vicia faba.