Claim · model-written summary
SA at 0.2 and 0.3 mM was judged most effective for mitigating salt stress.
- Taxon
- sweet pepper
Capsicum annuume0 - Treatment
- 0.2 and 0.3 mM SAe0
- Outcome
- most effective concentrations of SAe0
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Verbatim
e0“Application of 0.2 and 0.3 mM SA emerged as the most effective concentrations of SA for mitigating 60 mM NaCl stress on different physiological and morphological characteristics of sweet pepper.”
Title
Wazir Ahmed; Muhammad Imran; Muhammad Yaseen; et al. PeerJ 2020. doi:10.7717/peerj.8475
Other claims from this paper (16)
- Association Seeds with greater electrolyte leakage evolved significantly more ethylene.
- Intervention effect Priming with 0.2 to 0.3 mM SA increased germination rate by 33%.
- Intervention effect SA priming lowered ethylene evolution from 3.19 to 2.23–2.70 mg plate −1.
- Intervention effect SA priming reduced seed electrolyte leakage to 20.8–21.3% from 39.9%.
- Intervention effect Seed priming with 0.3 mM SA increased TSS to 15.0 mg g −1 FW.
- Intervention effect Seed priming with 0.3 mM SA increased SOD activity to 5.38 activity h −1 100 mg −1.
- Intervention effect Seed priming with 0.3 mM SA increased chlorophyll content to 102 ug g −1.
- Intervention effect Foliar SA increased LAI by 5–13%.
- Intervention effect Foliar SA increased photosynthesis by 4–27%.
- Intervention effect Foliar SA increased WUE by 11–57%.
- Intervention effect Foliar SA increased dry weight by 5–20%.
- Intervention effect Foliar SA increased SOD activity by 4–20%.
- Intervention effect Foliar SA increased fruit yield by 4–20%.
- Intervention effect Foliar SA significantly increased nutrient use efficiency.
- Intervention effect SA suppressed seed ethylene evolution by up to 30% under 60 mM NaCl.
- Mechanism Foliar SA was inferred to raise SOD and lower POD to improve nutrient use efficiency.