Claim · model-written summary
Several drought and desiccation tolerance associated genes showed more pronounced transcript changes in silica primed cucumber leaves.
- Taxon
- Cucumber
Cucumis sativust0 - Organ / stage
- leavese0
- Gene
- drought- and even desiccation-tolerant associated genese0
- Outcome
- transcript changese0
- Direction
- more pronouncede0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“Cucumber Plant”
e0“Transcriptomics analysis reveals that several drought- and even desiccation-tolerant associated genes exert more pronounced transcript changes in silica-primed leaves.”
Title
Nanoparticle-Elicited Eustress Intensifies Cucumber Plant Adaptation to Water Deficit
Daiwei Zhuang; Hong-Bo Li; Yiqing Wang; et al. Environmental Science & Technology 2025. doi:10.1021/acs.est.4c13531
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- Intervention effect Fumed silica nanoparticle priming raised cucumber germination from 66.7 to 80.0% under PEG simulated drought.
- Intervention effect Silica nanoparticle priming enhanced cucumber seedling vigor by 59.3% under simulated drought.
- Intervention effect Silica nanoparticle priming improved cucumber root length by 24.4% under simulated drought.
- Intervention effect Silica nanoparticle priming improved cucumber shoot length by 74.1% under simulated drought.
- Intervention effect Silicic acid at the same dose did not show a cucumber seed priming effect.
- Intervention effect Traditional silicon fertilizers at the same dose did not show a cucumber seed priming effect.
- Intervention effect Silica seed priming accelerated mobilization of stored reserves in cucumber seeds.
- Intervention effect Silica primed cucumber vegetative tissues had enhanced drought resistance.
- Observation Silica priming was associated with 34.7-74.8% upregulation of cucumber sugars.
- Observation Silica priming was associated with a sixfold increase in cucumber methionine.
- Observation Silica priming was associated with a 2.5-fold increase in cucumber salicylic acid.
- Observation Silica priming was associated with 16.0-83.8% upregulation of cucumber antioxidants.
- Intervention effect Silica seed priming did not reduce cucumber yield.
- Intervention effect Silica seed priming did not compromise cucumber fruit nutritional quality.
- Observation Offspring seeds of silica primed cucumber showed enhanced vigor.
- Observation Offspring seeds of silica primed cucumber showed enhanced drought tolerance.