Claim · model-written summary
Water deficit reduced tomato biomass and fruit number.
- Taxon
- tomato plants
Solanum lycopersicume0 - Treatment
- Water deficite0
- Outcome
- biomass and fruit numbere0
- Direction
- negatively impactede0
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Verbatim
e0“Water deficit negatively impacted the biomass and fruit number of tomato plants.”
Title
Allan Klynger da Silva Lobato; Maria Antonia Machado Barbosa; Abdulaziz Abdullah Alsahli; et al. Physiologia Plantarum 2021. doi:10.1111/ppl.13329
Other claims from this paper (10)
- Intervention effect Salicylic acid pretreatment increased fruit number, weight, and biomass under water restriction.
- Intervention effect Salicylic acid increased superoxide dismutase activity by 27.07%.
- Intervention effect Salicylic acid increased catalase activity by 17.81%.
- Intervention effect Salicylic acid increased ascorbate peroxidase activity by 50.52%.
- Intervention effect Salicylic acid increased peroxidase activity by 10.81%.
- Intervention effect Salicylic acid reduced cell damage measured by malondialdehyde and electrolyte leakage.
- Intervention effect Salicylic acid improved net photosynthetic rate by 84.55% in stressed plants.
- Intervention effect Salicylic acid improved water-use efficiency by 65.00% in stressed plants.
- Observation Salicylic acid was associated with anatomical benefits in stomatal density and palisade and spongy parenchyma.
- Observation Salicylic acid was linked to improved photosystem II performance.