Claim · model-written summary
Selenium foliar application increased excised leaf water retention, proline and total soluble sugars relative to untreated wheat.
- Taxon
- Bread Wheat
Triticum aestivumt0 - Treatment
- Se foliar applicatione0
- Outcome
- excised leaf water retention, proline, total soluble sugarse0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Comparator
- untreated plantse0
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageInteractorInteractor roleSecond interactorSecond interactor roleSettingValueQualifier
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Se foliar application increased chlorophyll content, net photosynthetic rate, transpiration rate, stomatal conductance, relative water content, membrane stability index, excised leaf water retention, proline, total soluble sugars, Ca content, K content, antioxidant enzyme activities and non-enzymatic antioxidant compounds compared to untreated plants.”
t0“Bread Wheat”
Title
El-Sayed M. Desoky; Abdel-Rahman M. A. Merwad; Mohamed F. Abo El-Maati; et al. Agronomy 2021. doi:10.3390/agronomy11050926
Other claims from this paper (6)
- Intervention effect Selenium foliar application increased chlorophyll content, net photosynthetic rate and transpiration rate relative to untreated wheat.
- Intervention effect Selenium foliar application increased stomatal conductance, relative water content and membrane stability index relative to untreated wheat.
- Intervention effect Selenium foliar application increased Ca content, K content and antioxidant enzyme activities relative to untreated wheat.
- Intervention effect Selenium foliar application increased non-enzymatic antioxidant compounds relative to untreated wheat.
- Intervention effect Selenium application decreased Na, hydrogen peroxide and superoxide contents in wheat.
- Recommendation The authors recommend exogenous selenium, particularly 8 μM, to alleviate salinity damage and improve wheat yield attributes.