Claim · model-written summary
The authors encourage farmers to use citric acid as a low-cost antioxidant to reduce environmental stress damage.
- Taxon
- date palm
Phoenix dactyliferat0 - Outcome
- use it for its low cost as an antioxidante0
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Verbatim
e0“encouraging farmers to use it for its low cost as an antioxidant to reduce environmental stress damage”
t0“date palm offshoots”
Title
Hussein J. Shareef; Muayed F. Abbas; Abbas M. Jasim Folia oecologica 2022. doi:10.2478/foecol-2022-0015
Other claims from this paper (11)
- Intervention effect Plant height, leaf area and leaf numbers of date palm offshoots all decreased under salinity conditions.
- Intervention effect Antioxidant applications increased plant height and leaf area compared with the control.
- Intervention effect Antioxidant applications increased carbohydrates and relative water content compared with the control.
- Intervention effect Citric acid at 1,000 ppm decreased electrolyte leakage and malondialdehyde.
- Intervention effect Indoleacetic acid decreased under salinity.
- Intervention effect Abscisic acid increased under salinity.
- Intervention effect The antioxidant application increased indoleacetic acid.
- Intervention effect The antioxidant application decreased abscisic acid.
- Intervention effect Proline, protein content and peroxidase activity increased under antioxidants.
- Intervention effect Potassium and the K/Na ratio increased under antioxidant applications.
- Intervention effect Citric acid improved the measured characteristics more than salicylic acid.