Claim · model-written summary
Putrescine increased floral retention by 30% when applied at flowering.
- Taxon
- Chickpea
Cicer arietinume1 - Treatment
- PUT application at flowering stagee0
- Outcome
- floral retentione0
- Direction
- increasee0
- Value
- 30e0
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Verbatim
e0“PUT application at flowering stage resulted in increase of 30, 31, 23 and 25 % in floral retention, pod set, pod retention and fertile pods respectively”
e1“Chickpea ( Cicer arietinum L.)”
Title
Putrescine Increases Floral Retention, Pod Set and Seed Yield in Cold Stressed Chickpea
H. Nayyar Journal of Agronomy and Crop Science 2005. doi:10.1111/j.1439-037x.2005.00158.x
Other claims from this paper (16)
- Intervention effect Cold stress increased polyamine levels six to ninefold in chickpea.
- Observation Putrescine rose the most under cold stress but its elevation was short lived.
- Association The decline in putrescine appeared to coincide with flower and pod abscission under stress.
- Intervention effect Chilling increased electrolyte leakage by 60% versus controls.
- Intervention effect Chilling reduced cellular respiration by 68% versus controls.
- Intervention effect Putrescine application reduced electrolyte leakage by 29% in stressed plants.
- Intervention effect Putrescine application increased cellular respiration by 40% in stressed plants.
- Intervention effect Putrescine increased pod set by 31% when applied at flowering.
- Intervention effect Putrescine increased pod retention by 23% when applied at flowering.
- Intervention effect Putrescine increased fertile pods by 25% when applied at flowering.
- Intervention effect Putrescine at early podding increased seed yield per plant by 50%.
- Intervention effect Putrescine at early podding increased seed number per 100 pods by 17%.
- Intervention effect Putrescine at early podding increased individual seed weight by 19%.
- Intervention effect Putrescine increased single-seeded pods from 4.4 to 12.2 per plant.
- Intervention effect Putrescine reduced double-seeded pods from 6.2 to 4.3 per plant.
- Intervention effect Putrescine reduced infertile pods from 8.2 to 3.1 per plant.