Claim · model-written summary
MT spraying increased grains per spike by 19.72% in Zhoumai 22 compared with drought stress treatments.
- Taxon
- wheat
Triticum aestivumt0 - Material
- Zhoumai 22e2
- Treatment
- MT sprayinge1
- Outcome
- number of grains per spikee2
- Direction
- increasee2
- Value
- 19.72%e2
- Comparator
- drought stress treatmentse1
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Verbatim
t0“drought stress in wheat”
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”
e2“with an increase in the number of grains per spike of 19.72% for Zhoumai 22 and 18.65% for Yumai 49-198”
Title
Yanyan Zhang; Yahui Li; Jiahao Liu; et al. Plant Stress 2025. doi:10.1016/j.stress.2025.100885
Other claims from this paper (8)
- Intervention effect MT spraying increased total florets, fertile florets and grain setting rate compared with drought stress treatments in two wheat varieties.
- Intervention effect MT spraying increased grains per spike by 18.65% in Yumai 49-198 compared with drought stress treatments.
- Intervention effect MT application enhanced photosynthetic productivity of wheat under drought.
- Association Structural equation modeling indicated that irrigation and MT application under drought both promote spike floret development.
- Mechanism Irrigation affected the number of fertile spikelets mainly through soluble sugars.
- Association Irrigation promoted an increase in the number of fertile florets in wheat under drought.
- Mechanism MT spraying influenced grain number per spikelet mainly by regulating Rubisco activity and soluble sugars.
- Intervention effect Exogenous melatonin reduced floret degeneration and abortion in wheat.