Claim · model-written summary
Persistent drought modulated antioxidant enzyme activities.
- Taxon
- Watermelon
Citrullus lanatust0 - Treatment
- Persistent droughte0
- Gene
- SOD, POD, and CATe0
- Outcome
- activities of antioxidant enzymese0
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Verbatim
t0“Watermelon”
e0“Persistent drought also modulated the activities of antioxidant enzymes (SOD, POD, and CAT)”
Title
Response of Watermelon to Drought Stress and Its Drought-Resistance Evaluation
Kaili Ren; Taoxia Tang; Weiping Kong; et al. Plants 2025. doi:10.3390/plants14091289
Other claims from this paper (12)
- Intervention effect Drought reduced fresh and dry weights, root length, root area in watermelon seedlings.
- Intervention effect Drought reduced root volume, root tips, and forks in watermelon seedlings.
- Intervention effect Drought reduced leaf relative water content.
- Intervention effect Drought increased soluble sugars, soluble proteins and proline.
- Intervention effect Drought increased starch.
- Mechanism Persistent drought caused H2O2 accumulation and oxidative stress.
- Intervention effect Drought significantly increased MDA content and relative conductivity.
- Observation Watermelon phenotypic plasticity indicated strong drought adaptability.
- Observation 14X5 was classified as highly drought-resistant.
- Observation LK13, JLR, HXF1, 14X4, 14X1, and 14X6 was classified as drought-resistant.
- Observation 21F05, JH1, JR3, 14X7, and 16F02 was classified as low drought-resistant.
- Observation 16C07 was classified as drought-sensitive.