Claim · model-written summary
Wheat ascorbic acid increased under drought.
- Taxon
- wheat
Triticum aestivume0 - Treatment
- droughte0
- Outcome
- ascorbic acide0
- Direction
- moree0
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Verbatim
e0“As part of protective mechanism against drought, wheat plants produced more of ascorbic acid and glutathione with a concomitant decrease in carotenoid content.”
Title
Dommalapati Sudhakara Rao; Midathala Raghavendra; Parveen Gill; et al. International Journal of Chemical Studies 2020. doi:10.22271/chemi.2020.v8.i5ak.10734
Other claims from this paper (6)
- Intervention effect Wheat glutathione increased under drought.
- Intervention effect Wheat carotenoid content decreased under drought.
- Association Ascorbic acid increased more in WH 1025 than WH 1105.
- Association Glutathione increased more in WH 1025 than WH 1105.
- Association Carotenoid content fell more in drought-sensitive WH 1105 than in WH 1025.
- Mechanism Authors attribute drought tolerance in WH 1025 to antioxidant protection and redox buffering.