Claim · model-written summary
Stressed sunflowers had higher antioxidant enzymes, phenol, flavonoid and proline.
- Taxon
- H. annuus
Helianthus annuuse0 - Treatment
- stresse0
- Outcome
- levels of antioxidative enzymes, phenol, flavonoid and proline contente0
- Direction
- highere0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Verbatim
e0“under stress, H. annuus plants exhibited higher levels of antioxidative enzymes, phenol, flavonoid and proline content.”
Title
Sidra Fatima; Waheed Ullah Khan; Rehana Sardar; et al. PeerJ 2025. doi:10.7717/peerj.19527
Other claims from this paper (16)
- Intervention effect Combined salt and Pb stress decreased root length by 49%.
- Intervention effect Combined stress decreased shoot length by 61%.
- Intervention effect Combined stress decreased root fresh weight by 48%.
- Intervention effect Combined stress decreased shoot fresh weight by 39%.
- Intervention effect Combined stress decreased chlorophyll a by 53%.
- Intervention effect Combined stress decreased chlorophyll b by 55%.
- Intervention effect Bacillus and thiamine increased shoot fresh weight 34% under combined stress.
- Intervention effect Bacillus and thiamine increased root fresh weight 38%.
- Intervention effect Bacillus and thiamine increased chlorophyll a 15%.
- Intervention effect Bacillus and thiamine increased chlorophyll b 18%.
- Intervention effect Bacillus and thiamine increased carotenoids 16%.
- Intervention effect Bacillus and thiamine increased antioxidant enzyme activity.
- Intervention effect Bacillus and thiamine increased non-enzymatic antioxidants.
- Intervention effect Bacillus inoculation accelerated Pb and Na translocation.
- Intervention effect Thiamine reduced uptake of Pb and Na.
- Recommendation The authors recommend single and combined PGPR and thiamine to improve stress tolerance.