Claim · model-written summary
Simulated acid rain inhibited maize seedling growth.
- Treatment
- simulated acid raine0
- Outcome
- Seedling growthe0
- Direction
- inhibitede0
- Comparator
- distilled water (control)e1
Zea maysNot reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageInteractorInteractor roleSecond interactorSecond interactor roleSettingValueQualifier
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Seedling growth of rice , wheat and maize was inhibited by simulated acid rain.”
e1“distilled water (control)”
Title
Effects of simulated acid rain on seed germination and seedling growth of three crops
Caixia Peng; Peng Changlian; Lin Guizhu; et al. Redai yaredai zhiwu xuebao 2003
Other claims from this paper (9)
- Intervention effect Simulated acid rain had no effect on rice seed germination.
- Intervention effect Simulated acid rain had no effect on wheat seed germination.
- Intervention effect Simulated acid rain significantly inhibited maize germination.
- Intervention effect Simulated acid rain inhibited rice seedling growth.
- Intervention effect Simulated acid rain inhibited wheat seedling growth.
- Intervention effect Biomass, chlorophyll and carotenoid content decreased in all three crops under simulated acid rain.
- Observation Chlorophyll a/b showed no obvious change in the three crops.
- Observation Maize Fv/Fm and photochemical quenching changed little at pH 4.5 or 5.6.
- Observation Maize nonphotochemical quenching decreased markedly.