Claim · model-written summary
ABA content in inferior seeds was positively correlated with maximum and mean filling rate.
- Organ / stage
- inferior seedse0
- Compound
- ABAe0
- Outcome
- maximum and mean seed filling ratee0
- Direction
- positively correlatede0
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Verbatim
e0“The ABA content in inferior seeds was positively correlated with the maximum and mean seed filling rate”
t0“summer maize”
Title
Melatonin improves the seed filling rate and endogenous hormonal mechanism in grains of summer maize
Shakeel Ahmad; Muhammad Kamran; Xunbo Zhou; et al. Physiologia Plantarum 2021. doi:10.1111/ppl.13282
Other claims from this paper (12)
- Intervention effect Seed soaking with melatonin increased single seed weight relative to foliar application.
- Intervention effect Seed soaking with melatonin increased seed filling rate in superior, medium and inferior seeds relative to foliar application.
- Intervention effect Melatonin increased Z+ZR, IAA, and GA contents.
- Intervention effect Melatonin decreased ABA content during seed filling.
- Association Z+ZR, IAA, and GA content correlated positively with filling rate and seed weight across seed classes.
- Association ABA was negatively correlated with filling rate and seed weight in middle, superior and lower seeds.
- Intervention effect SM2 increased dry matter per plant, 100-grain weight, and seed filling rate in semiarid regions.
- Intervention effect FM2 increased dry matter per plant, 100-grain weight, and seed filling rate in semiarid regions.
- Intervention effect SM2 increased IAA, Z+ZR, and GA contents.
- Intervention effect FM2 increased IAA, Z+ZR, and GA contents.
- Intervention effect SM2 increased ear characteristics and maize yield.
- Intervention effect FM2 increased ear characteristics and maize yield.