Claim · model-written summary
Drought reduced Jatropha seedling biomass.
- Taxon
- Jatropha curcas L.
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Jatropha curcase1 - Treatment
- drought stresse0
- Outcome
- biomass of seedlingse0
- Direction
- reductione0
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Verbatim
e0“An increased malondialdehyde activity (MDA) was reported with a reduction in relative water content (RWC) of the leaf and in the biomass of seedlings under drought stress.”
e1“Jatropha curcas L. under a simulated drought condition”
Title
Adewole Adebusola; Odjegba Victor; Iwuala Emmanuel; et al. Plant Science Today 2019. doi:10.14719/pst.2019.6.2.523
Other claims from this paper (8)
- Intervention effect Drought increased malondialdehyde activity in Jatropha seedlings.
- Intervention effect Drought reduced leaf relative water content in Jatropha.
- Intervention effect Drought significantly decreased alkaloids, phenol and flavonoids in Jatropha.
- Intervention effect Drought significantly decreased tannins in Jatropha.
- Intervention effect Drought increased saponins and terpenoids in Jatropha.
- Intervention effect Nitrogen before drought significantly increased alkaloids, tannins and flavonoids in Jatropha.
- Intervention effect Nitrogen before drought significantly increased phenols in Jatropha.
- Mechanism The authors attributed nitrogen protection during drought to phytochemical production that protects cell membranes.