Claim · model-written summary
Silicon improved cotton seedling growth under salt stress in both genotypes.
- Taxon
- Gossypium hirsutum L.
Gossypium hirsutumt0 - Treatment
- Sie0
- Outcome
- growth of cotton seedlinge0
- Direction
- improvede0
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Verbatim
t0“Ameliorative Effects of Silicon against Salt Stress in Gossypium hirsutum L.”
e0“Si significantly enhanced the net photosynthesis rate and improved the growth of cotton seedling under salt stress in both salt-sensitive and salt-tolerant genotypes”
Title
Ameliorative Effects of Silicon against Salt Stress in Gossypium hirsutum L.
Leilei Li; Qian Qi; Hengheng Zhang; et al. Antioxidants 2022. doi:10.3390/antiox11081520
Other claims from this paper (10)
- Intervention effect Silicon increased net photosynthesis under salt stress in both cotton genotypes.
- Intervention effect Exogenous silicon reduced reactive oxygen species accumulation in salt-stressed cotton.
- Intervention effect Exogenous silicon decreased malondialdehyde content in salt-stressed cotton.
- Intervention effect Silicon up-regulated CAT1, SODCC and POD expression in salt-stressed cotton.
- Intervention effect Silicon enhanced catalase and peroxidase activities in salt-stressed cotton seedlings.
- Intervention effect Silicon protected chloroplast ultrastructure under salt stress.
- Intervention effect Silicon protected photosynthetic enzymes under salt stress.
- Intervention effect Silicon protected PSII structure and function under salt stress.
- Intervention effect Silicon increased effective stomatal density in salt-stressed cotton seedlings.
- Intervention effect Silicon increased stomatal aperture in salt-stressed cotton seedlings.