Claim · model-written summary
Soil Zn application increased wheat grain yield by 22.6% under moderate drought.
- Taxon
- Wheat Plants
Triticum aestivumt0 - Treatment
- Soil Zn applicatione1
- Outcome
- grain yielde1
- Direction
- increasede1
- Value
- 22.6%e1
- Qualifier
- moderate droughte1
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Verbatim
e1“Soil Zn application increased grain yield and Zn concentration by 10.5% and 15.8%, 22.6% and 9.7%, and 28.2% and 32.8% under adequate water supply, moderate drought, and severe drought, respectively”
t0“Physiological Responses and Yield of Wheat Plants”
Title
Physiological Responses and Yield of Wheat Plants in Zinc-Mediated Alleviation of Drought Stress
Dongyun Ma; Dexiang Sun; Chenyang Wang; et al. Frontiers in Plant Science 2017. doi:10.3389/fpls.2017.00860
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- Intervention effect Zn application increased SPAD and Fv/Fm of wheat flag leaves.
- Intervention effect Zn application decreased lipid peroxidation levels and H2O2 content in wheat flag leaves.
- Intervention effect Zn application increased ascorbate and reduced glutathione content of wheat flag leaves.
- Intervention effect Zn application increased total phenolic and total flavonoid content of wheat flag leaves.
- Intervention effect Zn application enhanced expression of antioxidant enzyme genes in wheat flag leaves under drought stress.
- Intervention effect Zn application enhanced expression of ascorbate–glutathione cycle genes in wheat flag leaves under drought stress.
- Intervention effect Zn application enhanced expression of flavonoid biosynthesis pathway genes in wheat flag leaves under drought stress.
- Intervention effect Soil Zn application increased wheat grain yield by 10.5% under adequate water supply.
- Intervention effect Soil Zn application increased wheat grain Zn concentration by 15.8% under adequate water supply.
- Intervention effect Soil Zn application increased wheat grain Zn concentration by 9.7% under moderate drought.
- Intervention effect Soil Zn application increased wheat grain yield by 28.2% under severe drought.
- Intervention effect Soil Zn application increased wheat grain Zn concentration by 32.8% under severe drought.
- Intervention effect Foliar Zn application in the field increased wheat grain yield and grain Zn concentration under adequate water supply and rain-fed conditions.
- Mechanism Zn alleviates wheat drought stress by increasing photosynthesis pigment and active oxygen scavenging substances and reducing lipid peroxidation.
- Mechanism Zn fertilizer could regulate multiple antioxidant defense systems at the transcriptional level in response to drought.