Claim · model-written summary
Se alone improved wheat growth, water relations and photosynthetic attributes under stress.
- Taxon
- wheat
Triticum aestivume0 - Treatment
- See0
- Outcome
- growth, water relations, photosynthetic attributese0
- Direction
- improvede0
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Verbatim
e0“Nonetheless, the foliar application of Si and Se alone and in combination improved the growth, water relations, photosynthetic attributes, transpiration rate and chlorophyll contents of wheat seedlings under stressed conditions.”
Title
Separate and combined effects of silicon and selenium on salt tolerance of wheat plants
A. Sattar; M. A. Cheema; T. Abbas; et al. Russian Journal of Plant Physiology 2017. doi:10.1134/s1021443717030141
Other claims from this paper (11)
- Intervention effect Salt stress impaired wheat growth traits.
- Intervention effect Salt stress impaired water relations and photosynthetic attributes in wheat.
- Intervention effect Salt stress impaired transpiration and chlorophyll content in wheat.
- Intervention effect Si alone improved wheat growth, water relations and photosynthetic attributes under stress.
- Intervention effect Si alone improved wheat transpiration and chlorophyll content under stress.
- Intervention effect Se alone improved wheat transpiration and chlorophyll content under stress.
- Intervention effect Combined Si and Se improved wheat growth, water relations and photosynthetic attributes under stress.
- Intervention effect Combined Si and Se improved wheat transpiration and chlorophyll content under stress.
- Intervention effect Antioxidant enzyme activity increased under stress, most strongly with combined Si and Se.
- Intervention effect Proline, soluble protein and soluble sugar accumulated under stress, most strongly with combined Si and Se.
- Intervention effect Combined Si and Se alleviated salinity toxicity more effectively than Si alone.