Claim · model-written summary
Silica seed priming did not reduce cucumber yield.
- Taxon
- Cucumber
Cucumis sativust0 - Treatment
- silica seed priminge0
- Outcome
- yield penaltye0
- Direction
- does not generatee0
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageInteractorInteractor roleSecond interactorSecond interactor roleComparatorSettingValueQualifier
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“Cucumber Plant”
e0“The life cycle study shows that silica seed priming does not generate any yield penalty or compromise the nutritional quality of the fruits.”
Title
Nanoparticle-Elicited Eustress Intensifies Cucumber Plant Adaptation to Water Deficit
Daiwei Zhuang; Hong-Bo Li; Yiqing Wang; et al. Environmental Science & Technology 2025. doi:10.1021/acs.est.4c13531
Other claims from this paper (16)
- Intervention effect Fumed silica nanoparticle priming raised cucumber germination from 66.7 to 80.0% under PEG simulated drought.
- Intervention effect Silica nanoparticle priming enhanced cucumber seedling vigor by 59.3% under simulated drought.
- Intervention effect Silica nanoparticle priming improved cucumber root length by 24.4% under simulated drought.
- Intervention effect Silica nanoparticle priming improved cucumber shoot length by 74.1% under simulated drought.
- Intervention effect Silicic acid at the same dose did not show a cucumber seed priming effect.
- Intervention effect Traditional silicon fertilizers at the same dose did not show a cucumber seed priming effect.
- Intervention effect Silica seed priming accelerated mobilization of stored reserves in cucumber seeds.
- Intervention effect Silica primed cucumber vegetative tissues had enhanced drought resistance.
- Observation Silica priming was associated with 34.7-74.8% upregulation of cucumber sugars.
- Observation Silica priming was associated with a sixfold increase in cucumber methionine.
- Observation Silica priming was associated with a 2.5-fold increase in cucumber salicylic acid.
- Observation Silica priming was associated with 16.0-83.8% upregulation of cucumber antioxidants.
- Observation Several drought and desiccation tolerance associated genes showed more pronounced transcript changes in silica primed cucumber leaves.
- Intervention effect Silica seed priming did not compromise cucumber fruit nutritional quality.
- Observation Offspring seeds of silica primed cucumber showed enhanced vigor.
- Observation Offspring seeds of silica primed cucumber showed enhanced drought tolerance.