Claim · model-written summary
Water stress decreased thickness of mesophyll tissue.
- Taxon
- cowpea
Vigna unguiculatat0 - Treatment
- water stresse0
- Outcome
- thickness of mesophyll tissuee0
- Direction
- decreasede0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Anatomically, water stress decreased thickness of leaf blade at midrib region, thickness of mesophyll tissue, thickness of midrib vascular bundle.”
t0“cowpea”
Title
Improving growth and yield of cowpea by foliar application of chitosan under water stress
S Farouk; AR Amany Egyptian Journal of Biology 2012. doi:10.4314/ejb.v14i1.2
Other claims from this paper (11)
- Intervention effect Water stress impaired cowpea plant growth.
- Intervention effect Water stress decreased ion percentage.
- Intervention effect Water stress decreased chlorophyll and carbohydrate concentration.
- Intervention effect Water stress decreased yield and its quality.
- Intervention effect Foliar chitosan increased plant growth under stressed and nonstressed conditions.
- Intervention effect Foliar chitosan increased yield and its quality under stressed and nonstressed conditions.
- Intervention effect Foliar chitosan increased physiological constituents in plant shoot under stressed and nonstressed conditions.
- Intervention effect Water stress decreased thickness of leaf blade at midrib region.
- Intervention effect Water stress decreased thickness of midrib vascular bundle.
- Intervention effect Chitosan increased the leaf and midrib anatomical measures in stressed and nonstressed plants.
- Recommendation The authors suggest 250 mg/l chitosan to reduce water-stress damage in cowpea.