Claim · model-written summary
Boron deficiency inhibited mitosis without completely stopping it.
- Taxon
- SUNFLOWER
Helianthus annuust0 - Treatment
- ‐Be0
- Outcome
- mitosise0
- Direction
- inhibitede0
- Qualifier
- does not completely ceasee0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“mitosis in inhibited in ‐B roots but does not completely cease”
t0“SUNFLOWER ROOT TIPS”
Title
Helen M. Moore; Ann M. Hirsch American Journal of Botany 1983. doi:10.1002/j.1537-2197.1983.tb07855.x
Other claims from this paper (4)
- Intervention effect Boron deprivation inhibited root elongation within six hours.
- Intervention effect Label distribution did not differ between boron treatments.
- Intervention effect Boron-deficient root tips incorporated radioactive label comparably to controls through 72 hours.
- Mechanism The authors propose membrane alterations as the primary event and DNA synthesis and mitosis effects as secondary.