Claim · model-written summary
Proline alleviated drought-related reductions in growth parameters.
- Treatment
- proline supplementatione1
- Outcome
- growth parameterse0
- Direction
- alleviatede0
- Qualifier
- drought-inducede0
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Verbatim
e0“alleviated drought-induced reductions in growth parameters”
t0“Maize”
e1“proline supplementation enhanced shoot and root growth under normal conditions”
Title
Proline Promotes Drought Tolerance in Maize
Pirzada Khan; Ashraf M. M. Abdelbacki; Mohammed Albaqami; et al. Biology 2025. doi:10.3390/biology14010041
Other claims from this paper (19)
- Intervention effect Proline enhanced shoot and root growth under normal conditions.
- Intervention effect Under drought, proline increased shoot length by 40% versus untreated plants.
- Intervention effect Under drought, proline increased root length by 36% versus untreated plants.
- Intervention effect Under drought, proline increased shoot fresh weight by 97% versus untreated plants.
- Intervention effect Under drought, proline increased root fresh weight by 247% versus untreated plants.
- Intervention effect Under drought, proline increased shoot dry weight by 77% versus untreated plants.
- Intervention effect Under drought, proline increased root dry weight by 154% versus untreated plants.
- Observation Drought caused electrolyte leakage and reduced relative water content and leaf area.
- Observation Drought reduced relative water content and leaf area.
- Intervention effect Proline improved membrane stability, water retention and chlorophyll content under drought.
- Intervention effect Proline reduced hydrogen peroxide by 38% in drought-stressed maize.
- Intervention effect Proline reduced malondialdehyde by 67% in drought-stressed maize.
- Intervention effect Under drought, proline enhanced catalase (CAT) activity by 14%.
- Intervention effect Under drought, proline enhanced peroxidase (POD) activity by 69%.
- Intervention effect Under drought, proline enhanced superoxide dismutase (SOD) activity by 144%.
- Intervention effect Proline increased protein content in drought-stressed maize.
- Intervention effect Proline improved N retention by 30% in drought-stressed maize.
- Intervention effect Proline improved P retention by 40% in drought-stressed maize.
- Intervention effect Proline improved K retention by 28% in drought-stressed maize.