Claim · model-written summary
Slow drying sharply reduced viability at about 0.26 g g¹ dm.
- Taxon
- Pisum sativum
Lathyrus oleraceust0 - Treatment
- slow (c. 5 days) dryinge0
- Outcome
- Viabilitye0
- Direction
- declined sharplye0
- Value
- c. 0.26 g g¹ dme0
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Verbatim
e0“Viability, as assessed by germination capacity and tetrazolium staining, remained at 100% during rapid (< 24 h) desiccation. However, it declined sharply at c. 0.26 g g¹ dm following slow (c. 5 days) drying.”
t0“Pisum sativum”
Title
Tobias M Ntuli; Norman W Pammenter; Patricia Berjak Biological Research 2013. doi:10.4067/s0716-97602013000200002
Other claims from this paper (7)
- Observation Rapid desiccation retained full radicle viability.
- Association Faster dehydration lowered critical water content for survival.
- Intervention effect Rapid desiccation increased malate dehydrogenase activity and levels of oxidized NAD.
- Intervention effect Rapid desiccation was accompanied by lower hydroperoxide levels and membrane damage.
- Intervention effect Glutathione reductase activity was greater during rapid drying.
- Observation Radicle viability declined after two weeks of wet storage.
- Method / resource Radicles were a useful model for desiccation sensitivity in plant tissues.