Claim · model-written summary
Drought reduced root length by 65%.
- Taxon
- sunflower
Helianthus annuust0 - Treatment
- Drought stresse0
- Outcome
- rootse0
- Direction
- reducede0
- Value
- 65%e0
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Verbatim
e0“Drought stress resulted in an 85% reduction in shoot length, while roots were reduced by 65%”
t0“sunflower”
Title
Pınar Harmanci; Nurgül Ergin; Engin Gökhan Kulan; et al. Selcuk Journal of Agricultural and Food Sciences 2025. doi:10.15316/sjafs.2025.003
Other claims from this paper (8)
- Intervention effect Drought and low temperature impaired germination.
- Intervention effect Drought inhibited germination and seedling growth more than low temperature.
- Intervention effect Low temperature reduced shoot length by 63%.
- Intervention effect Low temperature reduced root length by 59%.
- Intervention effect Drought reduced shoot length by 85%.
- Intervention effect KNO3 priming gave the highest germination at the stated drought and temperature conditions.
- Intervention effect Hydration was superior at drought levels at 18 and 25 °C.
- Recommendation The authors recommend hydrated seed for improved germination and seedling growth under drought and cold.