Claim · model-written summary
Salinity increased alkaloid, anthocyanin and saponin production.
- Taxon
- milk thistle
Silybum marianumt0 - Treatment
- SSe0
- Outcome
- SM production, including alkaloids, anthocyanin, and saponinse0
- Direction
- increasede0
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Verbatim
e0“SS impaired plant growth and development and increased SM production, including alkaloids, anthocyanin, and saponins.”
t0“milk thistle”
Title
Noreen Zahra; Abdul Wahid; Muhammad Bilal Hafeez; et al. Life 2022. doi:10.3390/life12101530
Other claims from this paper (6)
- Intervention effect Salinity impaired milk thistle growth and development.
- Intervention effect Ascorbic acid was the most effective supplement for growth under salinity.
- Intervention effect Moringa leaf extract was next most effective for growth under salinity.
- Observation Milk thistle tolerated moderate salinity doses.
- Intervention effect Medium supplementation improved all growth parameters.
- Intervention effect Medium supplementation increased secondary metabolite accumulation.