Claim · model-written summary
Water stress reduced shoot and flag leaf biomass.
- Taxon
- bread wheat
Triticum aestivumt0 - Treatment
- Water stresse0
- Outcome
- shoot and flag leaf biomasse0
- Direction
- negative impacte0
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Verbatim
e0“Water stress was found to have a negative impact on shoot and flag leaf biomass, chlorophyll and carotenoids content, water relations and membrane characteristics”
t0“bread wheat”
Title
Hanan E. Ghanem; Doaa A. Hamza; A. A. Zain El-Abdeen; et al. Scientific Reports 2025. doi:10.1038/s41598-025-94728-1
Other claims from this paper (9)
- Intervention effect Water stress adversely affected chlorophyll and carotenoid content.
- Intervention effect Water stress adversely affected water relations and membrane characteristics.
- Intervention effect Drought significantly reduced wheat yield and yield components.
- Intervention effect Increasing zinc to 500 ppm increased shoot and flag leaf fresh and dry mass under water stress.
- Intervention effect Increasing zinc to 500 ppm increased chlorophyll and carotenoids under water stress.
- Intervention effect Increasing zinc to 500 ppm increased RWC, MSI, and nutrient uptake.
- Intervention effect Zinc increased wheat grain yield under control and drought treatments.
- Intervention effect Zinc increased yield attributes under control and drought treatments.
- Intervention effect Zinc increased wheat grain protein, gluten, and nutrient content.