Claim · model-written summary
Melatonin reduced cucumber susceptibility to nitrate damage.
- Taxon
- cucumber
Cucumis sativust0 - Treatment
- 0.1 mmol/L melatonine0
- Outcome
- susceptibility to damage due to high nitrate levelse0
- Direction
- reducede0
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Verbatim
e0“An application of 0.1 mmol/L melatonin significantly improved the growth of plants and reduced their susceptibility to damage due to high nitrate levels (0.6 mol/L) during the ensuing period of stress treatment.”
t0“cucumber”
Title
Ruimin Zhang; Yunkuo Sun; Yunkuo Sun; et al. Journal of Pineal Research 2017. doi:10.1111/jpi.12403
Other claims from this paper (11)
- Intervention effect Melatonin improved cucumber growth under high nitrate.
- Intervention effect Excess nitrate raised nitrogen, potassium and calcium concentrations.
- Intervention effect Excess nitrate lowered phosphorus and magnesium levels.
- Intervention effect Melatonin generally countered the nitrate driven mineral concentration changes other than calcium.
- Intervention effect Melatonin further raised calcium concentrations.
- Intervention effect Melatonin pretreatment reduced nitrate and ammonium nitrogen accumulation.
- Intervention effect Melatonin pretreatment enhanced nitrogen metabolism enzyme activities.
- Intervention effect Cs-NR expression was downregulated by nitrate.
- Intervention effect Cs-NR expression was upregulated after melatonin pretreatment.
- Intervention effect Cs-GOGAT expression was downregulated by nitrate.
- Intervention effect Cs-GOGAT expression was upregulated after melatonin pretreatment.