Claim · model-written summary
Ascorbic acid pool increased in both tolerance groups, more strongly in tolerant genotypes.
- Material
- tolerant genotypese0
- Outcome
- Ascorbic acid poole0
- Direction
- inducede0
- Comparator
- sensitive genotypese0
Zea maysNot reportedGeneCompoundOrgan / stageInteractorInteractor roleSecond interactorSecond interactor roleTreatmentSettingValueQualifier
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Verbatim
e0“Ascorbic acid pool was induced in both tolerant and sensitive genotypes, but induction was more pronounced in tolerant genotypes”
t0“maize (Zea mays L.)”
Title
Evaluation of oxidative stress tolerance in maize (Zea mays L.) seedlings in response to drought.
Vishal Chugh; Narinder Kaur; Anil K Gupta PubMed 2011
Other claims from this paper (9)
- Intervention effect Drought increased CAT and APX activities in tolerant maize genotypes.
- Intervention effect Drought significantly decreased SOD activity in sensitive genotypes.
- Intervention effect SOD activity remained unchanged under stress in tolerant genotypes.
- Intervention effect Drought significantly induced POX activity in both tolerant and sensitive genotypes.
- Intervention effect Stress increased H2O2 content in sensitive genotypes.
- Intervention effect Stress increased MDA content in sensitive genotypes.
- Intervention effect Stress caused no observed H2O2 or MDA change in tolerant genotypes.
- Intervention effect Glutathione content increased significantly in sensitive genotypes.
- Association Antioxidative defence activation correlated with drought tolerance in tolerant genotypes.