Claim · model-written summary
Silicon decreased superoxide anion concentrations under stress.
- Taxon
- Solanum lycopersicum L.
Solanum lycopersicumt0 - Treatment
- Sie0
- Outcome
- concentrations of superoxide anionse0
- Direction
- decreasinge0
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Verbatim
e0“Si induced stress tolerance by decreasing the concentrations of superoxide anions and malondialdehyde”
t0“Solanum lycopersicum L.”
Title
Adil Khan; Abdul Latif Khan; Muhammad Imran; et al. BMC Plant Biology 2020. doi:10.1186/s12870-020-02456-7
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- Intervention effect Silicon decreased malondialdehyde concentrations under stress.
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- Intervention effect Silicon increased shoot silicon uptake under heat stress.
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- Intervention effect Silicon stimulated heat shock protein expression and transcript accumulation.
- Intervention effect Silicon upregulated named heat transcription factors under heat stress.
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- Intervention effect Silicon lowered abscisic acid concentration and biosynthesis.
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