Claim · model-written summary
Rice straw-derived biochar increased photosynthetic activity in cowpea.
- Taxon
- cowpea
Vigna unguiculatae1 - Treatment
- rice straw-derived biochare2
- Outcome
- photosynthetic activitye2
- Direction
- increasede2
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Verbatim
e1“salt-stressed cowpea (Vigna unguiculata L.)”
e2“In addition, rice straw-derived biochar increased the photosynthetic activity and photosynthetic pigments (Chl. a, Chl. b and carotenoids) and decreased the biosynthesis of MDA and ascorbic acid”
Title
Mohamed Osman; Awatef Mohsen; Afaf Nessim; et al. Egyptian Journal of Botany 2019. doi:10.21608/ejbo.2019.6709.1267
Other claims from this paper (13)
- Intervention effect Salinity (200mM NaCl) significantly reduced all measured growth parameters of cowpea seedlings compared with control.
- Intervention effect Salinity stress reduced germination percentage of cowpea by 54% compared with control.
- Intervention effect Salinity stress reduced cowpea shoot length by 14% compared with control.
- Intervention effect Salinity stress reduced cowpea root length by 17% compared with control.
- Intervention effect Salinity stress reduced cowpea leaf area by 22% compared with control.
- Intervention effect Salinity stress increased the activities of antioxidant enzymes in cowpea.
- Intervention effect Salinity stress increased malondialdehyde and ascorbic acid content in cowpea.
- Intervention effect Salinity stress increased osmolytes in cowpea.
- Intervention effect Rice straw-derived biochar increased germination percentage and all studied growth criteria of cowpea under salinity stress.
- Intervention effect Rice straw-derived biochar increased photosynthetic pigments in cowpea.
- Intervention effect Rice straw-derived biochar decreased the biosynthesis of MDA and ascorbic acid in cowpea.
- Intervention effect The highest growth and physiological values in cowpea were recorded at 75% NPK combined with biochar.
- Intervention effect Rice straw-derived biochar reduced the additional chemical fertilizer rate by 25% in cowpea.