Claim · model-written summary
Drought stress significantly increased MDA in sunflower compared with control plants.
- Taxon
- Sunflower
Helianthus annuust0 - Treatment
- drought stresse0
- Outcome
- MDAe0
- Direction
- increasee0
- Comparator
- control plantse0
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Verbatim
t0“Sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.)”
e0“Plants under drought stress and potassium levels showed a significant increase and decrease, respectively, in SOD, CAT and GPX activity and MDA in compared to control plants”
Title
Soleimanzadeh American Journal of Agricultural and Biological Sciences 2010. doi:10.3844/ajabssp.2010.56.61
Other claims from this paper (7)
- Intervention effect Drought stress significantly increased SOD, CAT and GPX activity in sunflower compared with control plants.
- Intervention effect Higher potassium levels significantly decreased SOD, CAT and GPX activity in sunflower compared with control plants.
- Intervention effect Higher potassium levels significantly decreased MDA in sunflower compared with control plants.
- Intervention effect Sunflower plants with higher potassium levels showed higher resistance to drought stress.
- Intervention effect Sunflower plants with higher potassium levels had higher yield and higher dry matter allocation to grain filling (harvest index).
- Mechanism The authors suggest drought stress leads to production of oxygen radicals, which increases lipid peroxidation (MDA) and oxidative stress in the plant.
- Mechanism The authors conclude that the scavenging system, especially SOD, CAT and GPX, worked well and membrane damage (MDA) was controlled at higher potassium levels.