Claim · model-written summary
Salicylic acid–melatonin suppressed onion growth through protein degradation.
- Taxon
- Allium cepa L.
Allium cepat0 - Treatment
- SA/MELe0
- Outcome
- growthe0
- Direction
- suppressede0
- Qualifier
- protein degradatione0
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Verbatim
e0“SA and SA/MEL suppressed the growth by causing protein degradation.”
t0“Allium cepa L.”
t1“Allium cepa L.”
Title
Ayse Gul Nasircilar; Taner Erkaymaz; Kamile Ulukapi South African Journal of Botany 2024. doi:10.1016/j.sajb.2024.01.013
Other claims from this paper (13)
- Intervention effect Drought suppressed onion bulb germination and development.
- Intervention effect Melatonin promoted onion germination and vegetative growth.
- Intervention effect Salicylic acid suppressed onion germination and vegetative growth.
- Intervention effect Melatonin–salicylic acid combinations suppressed onion germination and growth.
- Intervention effect Salicylic acid completely inhibited onion root formation.
- Intervention effect At 200 mM, melatonin increased onion germination to 88% under drought.
- Intervention effect At 200 mM, melatonin increased onion leaf number to 9.3.
- Intervention effect Melatonin increased onion Proteinogenic amino acids.
- Intervention effect Melatonin increased onion water soluble vitamins.
- Intervention effect Melatonin increased onion mineral content.
- Observation Organic acid content did not increase in onion.
- Mechanism Salicylic acid suppressed onion growth through protein degradation.
- Recommendation The authors recommend caution in using melatonin and salicylic acid combinations by plant species and dose.