Claim · model-written summary
NO improved photosynthetic efficiency, stomatal conductance, and chlorophyll content in normal and salt treated wheat.
- Taxon
- wheat
Triticum aestivume0 - Treatment
- NOe0
- Outcome
- photosynthetic efficiency, stomatal conductance, and chlorophyll contente0
- Direction
- improvinge0
- Qualifier
- normal and NaCl-treatede0
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Verbatim
e0“NO was beneficial in improving the photosynthetic efficiency, stomatal conductance, and chlorophyll content in normal and NaCl-treated wheat plants.”
Title
Ghalia S. H. Alnusairi; Yasser S. A. Mazrou; Sameer H. Qari; et al. Plants 2021. doi:10.3390/plants10081693
Other claims from this paper (11)
- Intervention effect NO ameliorated salinity effects on growth parameters.
- Intervention effect NO treated plants accumulated more proline and soluble sugars.
- Intervention effect NO treated plants maintained higher relative water content.
- Intervention effect NO at both concentrations upregulated antioxidant defenses against salt oxidative damage.
- Mechanism Increased antioxidant enzyme activity protected membrane integrity and photosynthetic efficiency.
- Intervention effect NO increased uptake of nitrogen, potassium and calcium.
- Intervention effect NO reduced sodium uptake.
- Intervention effect NO treated plants showed a lower Na/K ratio.
- Intervention effect NO enhanced salt tolerance.
- Intervention effect NO downregulated SOS1, NHX1, AQP, and OSM-34 expression.
- Intervention effect NO upregulated D2-protein.