Claim · model-written summary
Drought resistance was not significantly correlated with number of flower petals.
- Taxon
- Hemerocallis fulva
Hemerocallis fulvae0 - Organ / stage
- flower petalse0
- Outcome
- drought resistancee0
- Qualifier
- No significant correlatione0
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Verbatim
e0“No significant correlation was observed between drought resistance and either chromosome ploidy or the number of flower petals in wild Hemerocallis fulva.”
Title
Zheng Liang; Ke Pei; Hongliang Zhang; et al. Scientific Reports 2025. doi:10.1038/s41598-025-18700-9
Other claims from this paper (14)
- Intervention effect Drought reduced plant height, canopy width and leaf length.
- Intervention effect Drought reduced leaf width and area.
- Intervention effect Under drought, total chlorophyll, Chl a and Chl b contents generally increased.
- Intervention effect Under drought, carotenoid content and Chl a/b ratio generally increased, with genotype variation.
- Intervention effect Drought elevated electrolyte leakage and MDA content.
- Intervention effect Drought markedly decreased relative water content.
- Method / resource PCA reduced thirteen growth and physiology parameters to three principal components.
- Observation The 25 wild genotypes were classified into high, moderate and low drought resistance groups.
- Observation Taiyuan No.1, Taiyuan No.2 and Qinshui No.1 showed high drought resistance.
- Observation Taigu No.1, Jiaocheng No.1 and Datong No.1 showed high drought resistance.
- Association Drought resistance was not significantly correlated with chromosome ploidy.
- Association Drought resistance was positively correlated with Chl a/b ratio.
- Association Drought resistance was negatively correlated with leaf electrolyte leakage.
- Method / resource The authors provide a method for evaluating drought resistance across genotypes.