Claim · model-written summary
Combined Si + ML effectively boosted the activities of catalase and superoxide dismutase in wheat.
- Taxon
- wheat
Triticum aestivume1 - Treatment
- combined application of Si + MLe5
- Gene
- catalase (CAT), superoxide dismutase (SOD)e5
- Outcome
- activities of important antioxidant enzymese5
- Direction
- effectively boostede5
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Verbatim
e1“on wheat grown at two different water-holding capacity levels (80% well-water condition and 40% drought stress)”
e5“the activities of important antioxidant enzymes, including catalase (CAT), superoxide dismutase (SOD), peroxidase (POD) and ascorbate peroxidase (APX) were effectively boosted through the combined application of Si + ML”
Title
Abdul Sattar; Ahmad Sher; Muhammad Ijaz; et al. Sustainability 2023. doi:10.3390/su15097426
Other claims from this paper (10)
- Intervention effect Drought stress significantly decreased grain yield and yield attributes of wheat.
- Intervention effect Drought stress significantly decreased water content and photosynthetic efficiency of wheat.
- Intervention effect Combined Si + ML application significantly improved leaf pigments of drought-stressed wheat.
- Intervention effect Si + ML application significantly improved leaf relative water content and proline in wheat.
- Intervention effect Si + ML application significantly improved total soluble sugars and total soluble protein in wheat.
- Intervention effect Combined Si + ML effectively boosted the activities of peroxidase and ascorbate peroxidase in wheat.
- Association The combined Si + ML treatment was correlated with a decrease in MDA, H2O2 and electrolyte leakage in wheat.
- Association The combined Si + ML treatment was correlated with increased water use efficiency in wheat.
- Intervention effect The combination of Si + ML significantly enhanced wheat yield by 20.21% under drought.
- Recommendation The authors recommend Si + ML as a promising treatment to enhance wheat productivity in drought-affected regions.