Claim · model-written summary
Kinetin and calcium pretreatment promoted earlier germination and greater seedling growth under salt stress.
- Taxon
- choysum (Brassica rapa var. parachinensis)
Brassica rapa var. parachinensist0 - Treatment
- Kn and Ca pretreatmente0
- Outcome
- early germination and enhanced seedling growthe0
- Direction
- enhancede0
- Comparator
- NaCl stresse0
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Verbatim
e0“Kn and Ca pretreatment partially mitigated the adverse effects of NaCl stress, evident by early germination and enhanced seedling growth”
t0“choysum (Brassica rapa var. parachinensis)”
Title
Muhammad Kamran; Dan Wang; Kaizhi Xie; et al. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety 2021. doi:10.1016/j.ecoenv.2021.112921
Other claims from this paper (19)
- Intervention effect NaCl stress reduced seed germination percentage by 42.6% relative to control.
- Intervention effect NaCl stress reduced germination potential by 42.0% relative to control.
- Intervention effect NaCl stress reduced germination index by 52.1% relative to control.
- Intervention effect NaCl stress reduced seedling vigor index by 65.2% relative to control.
- Intervention effect NaCl stress reduced fresh weight by 43.8% relative to control.
- Intervention effect NaCl stress reduced dry weight by 52.2% relative to control.
- Intervention effect NaCl stress reduced radicle length by 37.2% relative to control.
- Intervention effect NaCl stress reduced plumule length by 41.2% relative to control.
- Association Delayed germination and reduced seedling growth were positively correlated with hormonal imbalance, ion toxicity and oxidative stress under salinity.
- Intervention effect Kinetin and calcium increased proline, soluble protein and soluble sugars.
- Intervention effect Kinetin and calcium increased four antioxidant enzyme activities.
- Intervention effect Kinetin and calcium reduced malondialdehyde, hydrogen peroxide and superoxide anions.
- Intervention effect Kinetin and calcium decreased Na+ content in radicles and plumules.
- Intervention effect Kinetin and calcium increased K+ content in radicles and plumules.
- Intervention effect Kinetin and calcium maintained a balanced Na+/K+ ratio in radicles and plumules.
- Intervention effect Kinetin and calcium decreased ABA under NaCl stress.
- Intervention effect Kinetin and calcium increased GAs, especially GA4, under NaCl stress.
- Intervention effect Combined kinetin and calcium most effectively counteracted NaCl inhibition, maintaining germination, growth and biochemical parameters near stress-free control.
- Recommendation The authors propose kinetin and calcium seed supplementation to improve germination and growth under stress.