Intervention effectmodel-written summary

MT spraying increased grains per spike by 19.72% in Zhoumai 22 compared with drought stress treatments.

A claim from Exogenous melatonin alleviates drought stress in wheat by enhancing photosynthesis and carbon metabolism to promote floret development and grain yield · 2025

Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultpositivemeasured

Claim · model-written summary

MT spraying increased grains per spike by 19.72% in Zhoumai 22 compared with drought stress treatments.

Material
Zhoumai 22e2
Treatment
MT sprayinge1
Outcome
number of grains per spikee2
Direction
increasee2
Value
19.72%e2
Comparator
drought stress treatmentse1

Not reportedGeneCompoundOrgan / stageInteractorInteractor roleSecond interactorSecond interactor roleSettingQualifier

Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Triticum aestivum
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Verbatim

t0

“drought stress in wheat”

✓ located verbatim in the source · title, characters 31–54
e1

“compared with the drought stress treatments, MT spraying increased the total number of florets, number of fertile florets, and grain setting rate at different spikelet positions in the two types of wheat varieties”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 1056–1269
e2

“with an increase in the number of grains per spike of 19.72% for Zhoumai 22 and 18.65% for Yumai 49-198”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 1271–1374

Title

Exogenous melatonin alleviates drought stress in wheat by enhancing photosynthesis and carbon metabolism to promote floret development and grain yield

Yanyan Zhang; Yahui Li; Jiahao Liu; et al. Plant Stress 2025. doi:10.1016/j.stress.2025.100885

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