Claim · model-written summary
Tomato root growth fell 55% under lead exposure.
- Taxon
- tomato (Solanum lycopersicum)
Solanum lycopersicume1 - Treatment
- 60 and 120 μM PbCl2 without H. filicina extracte0
- Outcome
- root growthe0
- Direction
- reductione0
- Value
- 55%e0
- Comparator
- controle0
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Verbatim
e0“Seedlings that had been treated with 60 and 120 μM PbCl2 without H. filicina extract showed root growth reduction of 55% and 68.6%, respectively, relative to the control”
e1“seeds of tomato (Solanum lycopersicum)”
Title
Dilek Unal; Gulcin Sevim; Gokay Varis; et al. Crop and Pasture Science 2022. doi:10.1071/cp21455
Other claims from this paper (11)
- Intervention effect Tomato root growth fell 68.6% under lead exposure.
- Intervention effect Tomato root growth fell 27.44% with lead and extract.
- Intervention effect Tomato root growth fell 50.51% with lead and extract.
- Intervention effect Seedling viability index fell 68.14% under 120 μM PbCl2 application without H. filicina extract.
- Intervention effect Seedling viability index fell 42.48% under 120 μM PbCl2-treated seedlings with H. filicina extract applied.
- Association Lead accumulation decreased tomato leaf pigment content.
- Intervention effect Leaf pigment content was high with extract.
- Intervention effect Extract reduced lead-induced lipid peroxidation.
- Association DNA stability decreased as lead accumulated.
- Intervention effect Extract alleviated the decline in DNA stability.
- Mechanism The authors interpret extract protection as reduced cellular metal accumulation.