Claim · model-written summary
Uniconazole alleviated the drought-induced reduction in starch content of wheat seedlings.
- Taxon
- wheat
Triticum aestivume6 - Treatment
- uniconazole treatmente3
- Outcome
- starch contente3
- Direction
- alleviated the reductione3
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Verbatim
e6“restricting the growth of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)”
e3“uniconazole treatment increased chlorophyll (Chl) and carotenoid (Car) contents, inhibited the increase in sucrose concentration, and alleviated the reduction in starch content due to increased sucrose synthase (SS) activity under drought stress”
Title
Ying Jiang; Hao Rong; Qiang Wang; et al. Agronomy 2023. doi:10.3390/agronomy14010022
Other claims from this paper (12)
- Intervention effect Uniconazole significantly increased leaf relative water content of wheat seedlings under drought stress.
- Intervention effect Uniconazole reduced plant height of wheat seedlings under drought stress.
- Intervention effect Uniconazole counteracted the drought-induced reduction in fresh weight and root length of wheat seedlings.
- Intervention effect Uniconazole inhibited the excessive accumulation of reactive oxygen species in drought-stressed wheat seedlings.
- Intervention effect Uniconazole protected drought-stressed wheat seedlings against membrane lipid peroxidation.
- Intervention effect Uniconazole enhanced antioxidant enzyme activities in drought-stressed wheat seedlings.
- Intervention effect Uniconazole regulated superoxide dismutase gene expression in drought-stressed wheat seedlings.
- Intervention effect Uniconazole treatment increased chlorophyll and carotenoid contents in drought-stressed wheat seedlings.
- Intervention effect Uniconazole inhibited the increase in sucrose concentration of drought-stressed wheat seedlings.
- Intervention effect Uniconazole increased sucrose synthase activity in drought-stressed wheat seedlings.
- Intervention effect Uniconazole regulated expression of genes for starch and sucrose metabolism, porphyrin and chlorophyll metabolism, and photosynthetic antenna proteins in wheat seedlings.
- Intervention effect Uniconazole regulated expression of genes for carotenoid biosynthesis and carbon fixation in wheat seedlings.