Intervention effectmodel-written summary

Waterlogging for 14 and 21 days decreased shoot and root biomass and plant height of corn

A claim from Screening Corn Hybrids for Soil Waterlogging Tolerance at an Early Growth Stage · 2019

Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultnegativemeasured

Claim · model-written summary

Waterlogging for 14 and 21 days decreased shoot and root biomass and plant height of corn

Treatment
waterlogging for 14 days and 21 dayse0
Outcome
shoot and root biomass, plant heighte0
Direction
decreasede0

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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Zea mays subsp. mays
Zea mays subsp. mays · TaxonDominicus Johannes Bergsma · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

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“Screening Corn Hybrids”

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“The shoot and root biomass, plant height, stomatal conductance, and chlorophyll meter readings were decreased due to waterlogging for 14 days and 21 days”

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Title

Screening Corn Hybrids for Soil Waterlogging Tolerance at an Early Growth Stage

Gurpreet Kaur; Brendan Zurweller; Peter Motavalli; et al. Agriculture 2019. doi:10.3390/agriculture9020033

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flooding · growth · Zea mays (maize)Results differ

68 papers: 12 positive, 56 negative or no effect

56 papers in the same direction as this claim · 11 in the opposite direction

  1. positive
    Adventitious root number increased most at V11.

    Effects of Waterlogging at Different Developmental Stages on Growth, Yield and Physiological Responses of Forage Maize · 2025

    Opposite directionCites this paper

  2. negative
    Waterlogging reduced root length, density and tip number.

    Root and Shoot Responses of Summer Maize to Waterlogging at Different Stages · 2016 · compared with control (CK)

    Same directionCited by this paper

  3. negative
    Flooding reduced shoot biomass in both varieties by 20 to 50%.

    EARLY FLOODING OF TWO CULTIVARS OF TROPICAL MAIZE. I. SHOOT AND ROOT GROWTH · 2001

    Same directionCited by this paper

  4. negative
    Forty-eight hours of flooding reduced emergence in inbred and hybrid corn.

    Emergence of Inbred and Hybrid Corn Following Flooding1 · 1985

    Same directionCited by this paper

  5. negative
    Average belowground biomass was 52% higher in non-flooded than in flooded maize seedlings.

    Effects of soil flooding on photosynthesis and growth of Zea mays L. seedlings under different light intensities · 2012 · compared with non-flooded

    Same directionCited by this paper

  6. negative
    Waterlogging reduced corn biomass by 66 % during the vegetative stage.

    Quantifying resilience of major field crops to waterlogging during vegetative and reproductive stages · 2026 · compared with control (non-waterlogged)

    Same directionCites this paper

  7. positive
    Hypoxic pretreatment extended maize root-tip viability under anoxia to at least 96 hours, whereas roots not pretreated lost viability within about 24 hours

    Hypoxic Induction of Anoxia Tolerance in Root Tips of Zea mays · 1989 · compared with Roots that were not pretreated

    Opposite direction

  8. positive
    Ethylene priming and waterlogging induced early adventitious roots in maize.

    Comparative Physiological, Biochemical, and Genetic Responses to Prolonged Waterlogging Stress in Okra and Maize Given Exogenous Ethylene Priming · 2017

    Opposite direction

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