Claim · model-written summary
Longdong showed higher relative aboveground/underground biomass per plant than Algonquin under drought.
- Taxon
- Medicago sativa
Medicago sativae1 - Material
- Longdong varietye6
- Outcome
- relative aboveground/underground biomass per plante6
- Direction
- highere6
- Comparator
- Algonquin varietye6
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Verbatim
e6“Longdong variety was more drought-tolerant than Algonquin variety as evidenced by less leaf firing, more lateral root number, higher relative aboveground/underground biomass per plant and survival rate”
e1“Alfalfa (Medicago sativa) is a legume perennial forage crop”
Title
Wenli Quan; Xun Liu; Haiqing Wang; et al. Frontiers in Plant Science 2016. doi:10.3389/fpls.2015.01256
Other claims from this paper (12)
- Association Under control conditions, Longdong showed less water loss than Algonquin.
- Intervention effect After drought stress, Longdong showed less severe cell membrane damage than Algonquin.
- Intervention effect After drought stress, Longdong showed more proline than Algonquin.
- Intervention effect After drought stress, Longdong showed more ascorbate (ASC) contents than Algonquin.
- Intervention effect After drought stress, Longdong showed less H2O2 accumulation than Algonquin.
- Intervention effect After drought treatment, antioxidant enzyme activities were significantly higher in Longdong than in Algonquin.
- Association Longdong showed significantly higher transcripts of drought-responsive genes in leaf and root under drought stress.
- Association Longdong was more drought-tolerant than Algonquin.
- Association Longdong showed less leaf firing than Algonquin under drought.
- Association Longdong showed more lateral root number than Algonquin under drought.
- Association Longdong showed higher survival rate than Algonquin under drought.
- Association Longdong has lower stomata density than Algonquin.