Claim · model-written summary
Foliar application of 50 mg per liter proline increased wheat grain yield.
- Taxon
- wheat
Triticum aestivumt0 - Treatment
- Foliar application of 50 mg L-1 proline (P3)e0
- Outcome
- grain yielde0
- Direction
- increasede0
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Verbatim
e0“Foliar application of 50 mg L-1 proline (P3) increased grain yield and improved water use efficiency to 1.61 kg grains m-3 water.”
t0“wheat”
Title
Effect of exogenous proline on drought stress tolerance in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) cultivars
H H A Alkhafagi; Y A Al-Janabi; K F H Al-Khafagi Plant Science Today 2025. doi:10.14719/pst.9266
Other claims from this paper (12)
- Intervention effect Severe drought reduced wheat plant height to 58.53 cm.
- Intervention effect Severe drought reduced wheat spikes per plant to 3.98.
- Intervention effect Severe drought reduced wheat seeds per spike to 37.86.
- Intervention effect Severe drought reduced wheat total yield to 3.47 tons per hectare.
- Intervention effect Severe drought reduced wheat flag leaf area to 25.75 square centimeters.
- Intervention effect Severe drought reduced wheat chlorophyll content.
- Intervention effect Severe drought reduced wheat water use efficiency to 1.6 kg grains per cubic meter water.
- Observation Wheat water use efficiency was highest under 30 % available water.
- Observation Wheat grain yield reached 6.07 tons per hectare under 50 % available water.
- Intervention effect Foliar proline improved wheat water use efficiency to 1.61 kg grains per cubic meter.
- Observation Drought by proline interaction was not statistically significant in wheat.
- Observation Sham 6 outperformed Ibaa 99 and Adnaniyah in most wheat growth and yield traits.