Claim · model-written summary
The authors conclude that applied or water-shortage-induced abscisic acid participates in chilling resistance.
- Taxon
- cucumber seedlings
Cucumis sativuse0
- Treatment
- abscisic acid, either applied to the seedlings or induced to increase by exposure to water shortagee0
- Outcome
- development of chilling resistancee0
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Verbatim
e0“abscisic acid, either applied to the seedlings or induced to increase by exposure to water shortage, was involved in the development of chilling resistance in cucumber seedlings”
Title
Chilling Resistance as Affected by Stressing Environments and Abscisic Acid
Arnon Rikin; Amos Blumenfeld; Amos E. Richmond Botanical Gazette 1976. doi:10.1086/336876
Other claims from this paper (4)
- Intervention effect Chilling caused cotyledon necrosis and reduced root and shoot growth six days later.
- Intervention effect Abscisic acid pretreatment increased chilling resistance.
- Intervention effect Withholding water increased chilling resistance.
- Intervention effect Root-medium salinization increased chilling resistance.