Claim · model-written summary
Foliar 10 mM zinc increased wheat grain yield under water stress compared with control.
- Taxon
- wheat
Triticum aestivume0 - Treatment
- 10 mM Zne0
- Outcome
- grain yielde0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Qualifier
- water stress conditione0
- Comparator
- controle0
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Verbatim
e0“wheat plant treated with 10 mM Zn under water stress condition increased the grain yield by improving number of grains per spike, 100 grain weight and biological yield compared with control.”
Title
Abdul Sattar; Xiukang Wang; Sami Ul-Allah; et al. Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences 2021. doi:10.1016/j.sjbs.2021.10.061
Other claims from this paper (12)
- Intervention effect Water stress significantly reduced wheat relative water content and gas exchange attributes.
- Intervention effect Water stress significantly reduced wheat plant height, yield, and yield-related attributes.
- Intervention effect Water stress markedly increased wheat hydrogen peroxide and free proline levels.
- Intervention effect Water stress markedly increased wheat malondialdehyde activity and soluble protein concentration.
- Intervention effect Zinc levels significantly improved CAT, SOD, and POD activities at 40% WHC.
- Intervention effect Zinc levels significantly improved ASP activity at 40% WHC.
- Intervention effect Foliar 10 mM zinc improved wheat plant height, relative water content, and gas exchange under water stress.
- Intervention effect Foliar 15 mM zinc improved wheat plant height, relative water content, and gas exchange under water stress.
- Intervention effect Foliar 10 mM zinc improved wheat grains per spike, 100 grain weight, and biological yield under water stress.
- Intervention effect Increasing zinc levels increased wheat grain zinc concentration.
- Intervention effect Increasing zinc levels increased wheat leaf zinc concentration.
- Recommendation The authors suggest 10 mM zinc to alleviate water-stress impacts and enhance grain biofortification.