Claim · model-written summary
Melatonin increased seed flavonoid and phenolic contents under both salinity conditions.
- Taxon
- wheat
Triticum aestivumt0 - Treatment
- Melatonin treatments at different levelse0
- Outcome
- flavonoids, phenolic contentse0
- Direction
- increasese0
- Qualifier
- either in non stressed and salinity stressed plantse0
- Comparator
- their corresponding controlse0
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Verbatim
e0“Melatonin treatments at different levels caused significant increases in yield and yield attributes, carbohydrate, protein, nitrogen, phosphorous, potassium, flavonoids, phenolic contents, and antioxidant activity of the yielded seeds either in non stressed and salinity stressed plants relative to their corresponding controls”
t0“wheat”
Title
Mitigation of salinity adverse effects of on wheat by grain priming with melatonin
Mervat Sh 2016
Other claims from this paper (14)
- Intervention effect Salinity decreased wheat shoot height, leaf number, and shoot fresh and dry weights.
- Intervention effect Salinity significantly decreased photosynthetic pigments and IAA content.
- Intervention effect Salinity decreased wheat yield and yield attributes.
- Intervention effect Salinity decreased carbohydrate, protein, and nitrogen contents.
- Intervention effect Salinity decreased phosphorous and potassium contents.
- Intervention effect Salinity increased flavonoid and phenolic contents.
- Intervention effect Salinity significantly increased antioxidant activity at 50 and 100µg/l.
- Intervention effect Melatonin enhanced growth parameters in salinity-stressed wheat.
- Intervention effect Melatonin enhanced photosynthetic pigments and IAA content in salinity-stressed wheat.
- Intervention effect Melatonin increased yield and yield attributes under non-stressed and salinity-stressed conditions.
- Intervention effect Melatonin increased seed carbohydrate, protein, and nitrogen contents under both salinity conditions.
- Intervention effect Melatonin increased seed phosphorous and potassium contents under both salinity conditions.
- Intervention effect Melatonin increased seed antioxidant activity under both salinity conditions.
- Observation The authors found 500 µM melatonin most effective at alleviating salinity stress effects in wheat.