Claim · model-written summary
Melatonin increased wheat fluorescence yields by 1.09% relative to no melatonin.
- Taxon
- wheat
Triticum aestivumt0 - Treatment
- Melatonine0
- Outcome
- fluorescence yieldse0
- Direction
- enhancede0
- Value
- 1.09%e0
- Comparator
- control (no melatonin)e0
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Verbatim
e0“Melatonin enhanced the overall response ratio (ln RR ) for photosynthetic rates, stomatal conductance, transpiration rates, and fluorescence yields by 20.49, 22.39, 30.96, and 1.09%, respectively, compared to the control (no melatonin).”
t0“wheat”
Title
Ihsan Muhammad; Fahim Ullah; Shakeel Ahmad; et al. BMC Plant Biology 2024. doi:10.1186/s12870-024-05132-2
Other claims from this paper (9)
- Observation The included studies showed substantial heterogeneity and publication bias.
- Intervention effect Melatonin increased wheat photosynthetic rates by 20.49% relative to no melatonin.
- Intervention effect Melatonin increased wheat stomatal conductance by 22.39% relative to no melatonin.
- Intervention effect Melatonin increased wheat transpiration rates by 30.96% relative to no melatonin.
- Intervention effect Melatonin significantly improved wheat leaf water content, especially under hydroponic conditions and abiotic stress.
- Intervention effect Melatonin reduced wheat water potential, especially under hydroponic conditions and abiotic stress.
- Intervention effect Soil drenching with melatonin increased wheat chlorophyll pigments.
- Intervention effect Foliar spray with melatonin increased wheat chlorophyll pigments.
- Observation Melatonin influenced wheat chlorophyll SPAD and intercellular CO 2 concentrations.