Claim · model-written summary
NaCl salt stress increased phenolic acid and flavonoid derivative concentrations.
- Taxon
- Basil
Ocimum basilicumt0 - Treatment
- NaCl salt stresse0
- Outcome
- phenolic acids, and flavonoid derivativese0
- Direction
- increasede0
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Verbatim
e0“NaCl salt stress increased the concentrations of key bioactive molecules, notably carotenoids (lutein and β-carotene), phenolic acids, and flavonoid derivatives”
t0“Basil”
Title
Michele Ciriello; Luigi Formisano; Marios C. Kyriacou; et al. Antioxidants 2022. doi:10.3390/antiox11112207
Other claims from this paper (8)
- Intervention effect Salt stress reduced fresh yield by 51.54% on average across basil cultivars.
- Intervention effect Salt stress reduced photosynthetic parameters in all cultivars.
- Intervention effect Salt stress raised tissue Na+ and Cl− concentrations.
- Intervention effect NaCl salt stress reduced nitrate concentration by 77.21%.
- Intervention effect NaCl salt stress increased carotenoid concentrations.
- Intervention effect Salt-treated basil had higher antioxidant activity than untreated basil.
- Observation Cichoric acid was the most abundant polyphenolic compound in all basil cultivars.
- Observation Cinnamon had the highest cichoric acid values.