Claim · model-written summary
Drought decreased sesame grain yield by 16–30%.
- Taxon
- Sesamum indicum L.
Sesamum indicume2 - Treatment
- Droughte1
- Outcome
- grain yielde0
- Direction
- decreasese0
- Value
- 16–30%e0
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageInteractorInteractor roleSecond interactorSecond interactor roleComparatorSettingQualifier
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“16–30% and 37–48% decreases in grain yield and dry mass, respectively”
e1“Drought led to”
e2“Sesame (Sesamum indicum L.)”
Title
Mina Hasani; Sedigheh Faryabi; Parviz Ehsanzadeh; et al. South African Journal of Botany 2023. doi:10.1016/j.sajb.2023.09.008
Other claims from this paper (9)
- Intervention effect Drought increased sesame proline, malondialdehyde and H2O2 concentrations by up to 55–60%.
- Intervention effect Drought decreased sesame chlorophyll concentration, photosynthesis and water content.
- Intervention effect Drought decreased sesame relative water content, plant height and branching.
- Intervention effect Drought decreased sesame dry mass by 37–48%.
- Intervention effect Foliar zinc enhanced sesame chlorophyll concentration, leaf area index and grain zinc.
- Intervention effect Foliar zinc enhanced sesame height, branching and photosynthetic rate.
- Intervention effect Foliar zinc increased sesame grain yield by 6–9%.
- Intervention effect Foliar zinc increased sesame oil concentration by 6%.
- Intervention effect Foliar zinc increased sesame dry mass by 10–30%.