Claim · model-written summary
Salicylic acid spray significantly increased lettuce fresh head weight and head diameter under water deficit.
- Taxon
- lettuce
Lactuca sativat0 - Treatment
- foliar spraying with salicylic acide1
- Outcome
- fresh head weight, head diametere1
- Direction
- increasede1
- Comparator
- treatment that under water deficite1
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Verbatim
e1“foliar spraying with salicylic acid significantly protected against the stress and increased root length, root weight, fresh head weight, head diameter,photosynthetic pigments compared to treatment that under water deficit.”
t0“Lettuce”
Title
S. Shehata; M. Mohamed; Shreen Attallah Journal of Plant Production 2020. doi:10.21608/jpp.2020.149831
Other claims from this paper (9)
- Intervention effect Water stress adversely affected growth and productivity parameters of lettuce Big Bell.
- Intervention effect Water stress at 20 days inhibited lettuce more than stress at 30 days.
- Intervention effect Salicylic acid spray significantly increased lettuce root length and root weight under water deficit.
- Intervention effect Salicylic acid spray increased lettuce photosynthetic pigments under water deficit.
- Intervention effect Proline content increased under drought.
- Intervention effect Proline content increased under salicylic acid treatments.
- Intervention effect Salicylic acid at 200 ppm at 30 days significantly increased first-season yield by 18.31% relative to control.
- Intervention effect Salicylic acid at 200 ppm at 30 days significantly increased second-season yield by 26.9% relative to control.
- Mechanism The authors conclude that salicylic acid increases drought tolerance in lettuce.