Claim · model-written summary
Water stress considerably increased leaf malondialdehyde (MDA) contents in maize.
- Treatment
- water stresse4
- Outcome
- leaf malondialdehyde (MDA) contentse4
- Direction
- increasede4
- Setting
- field water deficit conditionse0
Zea maysNot reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageInteractorInteractor roleSecond interactorSecond interactor roleComparatorValueQualifier
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Verbatim
t0“Maize (Zea mays L.)”
e0“in two maize cultivars under field water deficit conditions”
e4“In contrast, water stress considerably increased the leaf malondialdehyde (MDA) contents”
Title
Q. Ali; M. Ashraf Journal of Agronomy and Crop Science 2011. doi:10.1111/j.1439-037x.2010.00463.x
Other claims from this paper (7)
- Intervention effect Water stress significantly reduced plant biomass production, photosynthetic attributes and water relation parameters in both maize cultivars.
- Intervention effect Water stress considerably increased the activities of peroxidase (POD), superoxide dismutase (SOD) and catalase (CAT) in maize.
- Intervention effect Water stress considerably increased the levels of non-enzymatic compounds such as ascorbic acid and tocopherols in maize.
- Intervention effect Water stress markedly reduced leaf phenolic contents in maize.
- Intervention effect Foliar-applied trehalose significantly increased plant biomass production in maize under water deficit.
- Intervention effect Foliar-applied trehalose improved some key photosynthetic attributes of maize under water deficit.
- Intervention effect Exogenous trehalose increased the activities of some key antioxidant enzymes (POD and CAT) in maize.