Claim · model-written summary
Salt stress decreased photosystem II activity.
- Taxon
- Phaseolus vulgaris L.
Phaseolus vulgarist0 - Treatment
- Salt stresse0
- Outcome
- photosystem II (PSII) activitye0
- Direction
- decreasede0
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Verbatim
e0“Salt stress led to a lower chlorophyll content, a reduced photosynthetic activity, increased reactive oxygen species (ROS) contents, and decreased photosystem II (PSII) activity.”
t0“Phaseolus vulgaris L.”
Title
Abdelaleim Ismail ElSayed; Mohammed Suhail Rafudeen; Ayman M. Gomaa; et al. Physiologia Plantarum 2021. doi:10.1111/ppl.13372
Other claims from this paper (13)
- Intervention effect Salt stress lowered chlorophyll content and photosynthetic activity in green bean seedlings.
- Intervention effect Salt stress increased reactive oxygen species content.
- Intervention effect Melatonin improved photosynthetic activity of salt stressed green bean seedlings.
- Intervention effect Melatonin alleviated oxidative damage under salt stress.
- Intervention effect Melatonin enhanced antioxidant enzyme activity under salt stress.
- Observation Salt stress significantly increased expression of six antioxidant defense genes relative to untreated plants.
- Intervention effect Melatonin plus NaCl raised CuZnSOD transcript levels by 28.8% versus NaCl alone.
- Intervention effect Melatonin plus NaCl raised CAT1 transcript levels by 21.1% versus NaCl alone.
- Intervention effect Melatonin plus NaCl raised APX transcript levels by 26.1% versus NaCl alone.
- Intervention effect Melatonin plus NaCl raised GR transcript levels by 20% versus NaCl alone.
- Intervention effect Melatonin plus NaCl raised PrxQ transcript levels by 26.2% versus NaCl alone.
- Intervention effect Melatonin plus NaCl raised 2-Cys-Prx transcript levels by 22.4% versus NaCl alone.
- Recommendation The findings were proposed for management of green bean in saline soils.