Claim · model-written summary
salinity had shoot dry weight change of −58.4%.
- Taxon
- Bambara Groundnut
Vigna subterraneat0 - Treatment
- salinitye0
- Outcome
- Shoot dry weighte0
- Direction
- reducede0
- Value
- −58.4%e0
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Verbatim
e0“Shoot dry weight increased significantly in primed plants (+83.5%, p < 0.05), while salinity reduced SDW (−58.4%); primed + salt plants maintained SDW near control levels (+2.6%).”
t0“Bambara Groundnut”
Title
Siyabonga Ntshalintshali; Mbukeni Andrew Nkomo; Lungelo Given Buthelezi Plants 2026. doi:10.3390/plants15040626
Other claims from this paper (16)
- Intervention effect In BGN-14, salinity changed shoot fresh weight by −49.5%.
- Intervention effect In BGN-14, Mg(NO3)2 priming changed shoot fresh weight by −0.4%.
- Intervention effect Root fresh weight declined numerically under salt stress.
- Intervention effect Root fresh weight declined numerically under primed + salt conditions.
- Intervention effect primed plants had shoot dry weight change of +83.5%.
- Intervention effect primed + salt plants had shoot dry weight change of +2.6%.
- Intervention effect BGN-25 root biomass was unaffected by treatments.
- Intervention effect Salinity significantly reduced BGN-25 shoot biomass relative to primed plants.
- Intervention effect Salinity increased Na+/K+ ratio, especially in roots.
- Observation BGN-14 root Na+/K+ ratio increased significantly from 1.07 to 4.49.
- Observation BGN-14 shoot ratios increased nonsignificantly.
- Observation BGN-25 showed increase in shoot ratios.
- Observation BGN-25 showed rise in root ratios.
- Association Na, Fe and Al loaded strongly under salinity in nutrient clustering.
- Association Ca, K, Mg and Cu aligned with improved physiological performance.
- Intervention effect Several ion ratios and nutrient relationships were numerically enhanced under priming, with differences often not significant.