Claim · model-written summary
Chitosan raised stomatal conductance and transpiration in water stressed sorghum.
- Treatment
- chitosane0
- Outcome
- stomatal conductance and transpiratione0
- Direction
- highere0
- Qualifier
- water deficite0
- Comparator
- untreated plantse0
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Verbatim
e0“Sorghum plants subjected to water deficit that were treated with chitosan exhibited higher stomatal conductance and transpiration than the untreated plants.”
Title
Roniel Geraldo Ávila; Paulo César Magalhães; Luciana Cristina Vitorino; et al. Journal of soil science and plant nutrition 2022. doi:10.1007/s42729-022-01111-4
Other claims from this paper (6)
- Intervention effect Water restriction reduced sorghum leaf nutrient contents.
- Intervention effect In irrigated sorghum, chitosan raised some tissue nutrient contents and leaf proteins and amino acids.
- Intervention effect Under water deficit, chitosan raised photosynthetic rate and carbohydrate accumulation in sorghum.
- Intervention effect Under water deficit, chitosan increased sorghum panicle and grain dry biomass relative to untreated plants.
- Intervention effect Chitosan raised catalase and ascorbate peroxidase activity in sorghum.
- Intervention effect Chitosan enhanced sorghum water deficit tolerance by 57%.