Claim · model-written summary
Zinc raised root dry weight 25% versus control under drought.
- Taxon
- Bread Wheat
Triticum aestivumt0 - Outcome
- Root dry weight (RDW)e0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Value
- 25e0
- Qualifier
- under drought conditionse0
- Comparator
- control treatmente0
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Verbatim
e0“Root dry weight (RDW) was increased by 25, 30, and 46% for these three treatments, respectively, under drought conditions compared to the control treatment.”
t0“Bread Wheat”
Title
Zn Fertilizer and Mycorrhizal Inoculation Effect on Bread Wheat Cultivar Grown under Water Deficit
Neila Abdi; Angeline Van Biljon; Chrisna Steyn; et al. Life 2023. doi:10.3390/life13051078
Other claims from this paper (15)
- Intervention effect Zinc application enhanced wheat growth and yield under drought.
- Intervention effect AMF inoculation enhanced wheat growth and yield under drought.
- Intervention effect Combined zinc and AMF enhanced wheat growth and yield under drought.
- Intervention effect AMF raised root dry weight 30% versus control under drought.
- Intervention effect Combined zinc and AMF raised root dry weight 46% versus control under drought.
- Intervention effect Zinc increased protein, relative water content and harvest index under drought.
- Intervention effect AMF increased protein, relative water content and harvest index under drought.
- Intervention effect Combined zinc and AMF increased protein, relative water content and harvest index under drought.
- Intervention effect AMF improved proline content more than zinc under drought.
- Intervention effect AMF increased glycine betaine 31.71% under drought versus well-watered conditions.
- Intervention effect Zinc increased glycine betaine 10.36% under drought versus well-watered conditions.
- Intervention effect Combined zinc and AMF increased glycine betaine 70.70% under drought versus well-watered conditions.
- Intervention effect AMF improved SOD activity by 58%.
- Intervention effect Zinc improved CAT activity by 56%.
- Observation Zinc and/or AMF increased antioxidant levels and ionic attributes under abiotic stress.