Claim · model-written summary
Waterlogging reduced root dry matter of tall fescue by 38%.
- Taxon
- tall fescue
Lolium arundinaceume0 - Treatment
- waterlogginge3
- Outcome
- root dry mattere3
- Direction
- reducede3
- Value
- 38%e3
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Verbatim
e0“two summer-active cocksfoot (Dactylis glomerata L.) cultivars, Lazuly and Porto, and two summer-active tall fescue (Lolium arundinaceum Schreb., syn. Festuca arundinacea Schreb.) cultivars, Hummer and Quantum II MaxP”
e3“waterlogging significantly reduced root dry matter in all cultivars, with greater reduction in cocksfoot (56%) than in tall fescue (38%)”
Title
Aerenchyma Formation in Adventitious Roots of Tall Fescue and Cocksfoot under Waterlogged Conditions
Nguyen Thi Mui; Meixue Zhou; David Parsons; et al. Agronomy 2021. doi:10.3390/agronomy11122487
Other claims from this paper (13)
- Intervention effect Waterlogging did not change shoot biomass of cocksfoot cultivars.
- Intervention effect Waterlogging did not change shoot biomass of tall fescue cultivars.
- Intervention effect Waterlogging reduced root dry matter of cocksfoot by 56%.
- Intervention effect Waterlogging increased adventitious root and aerenchyma formation in cocksfoot.
- Intervention effect Waterlogging increased adventitious root and aerenchyma formation in tall fescue.
- Association Cocksfoot cultivars showed a greater increase in adventitious roots than tall fescue cultivars.
- Association Tall fescue cultivars had a greater proportion of aerenchyma than cocksfoot cultivars.
- Observation Both cocksfoot cultivars showed similar responses to waterlogging.
- Observation Both tall fescue cultivars showed similar responses to waterlogging.
- Observation Plants of cocksfoot began to show signs of waterlogging stress 14–21 days after the onset of waterlogging.
- Observation Plants of tall fescue began to show signs of waterlogging stress 14–21 days after the onset of waterlogging.
- Recommendation An extended screening program is needed to find varietal differences in cocksfoot that could be used in breeding for waterlogging tolerance.
- Recommendation An extended screening program is needed to find varietal differences in tall fescue that could be used in breeding for waterlogging tolerance.