Intervention effectmodel-written summary

Drought stress significantly reduced radicle and plumule dry matter.

A claim from Effects of peg stress on corn cultivars (Zea mays L.) at germination stage. · 2010

Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultnegativesignificant (as stated)measured

Claim · model-written summary

Drought stress significantly reduced radicle and plumule dry matter.

Treatment
drought treatmente0
Outcome
radicle and plumule dry mattere1
Direction
decreasee1
Comparator
distilled water (0)e0

Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageInteractorInteractor roleSecond interactorSecond interactor roleSettingValueQualifier

Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Zea mays subsp. mays
Zea mays subsp. mays · TaxonDominicus Johannes Bergsma · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

Verbatim

e0

“five levels of drought treatment (distilled water (0), -2, -4 and -8 bars)”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 458–532
e1

“significant decrease was observed in percentage of germination, germination rate, length of radicle and plumule and radicle and plumule dry matter”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 753–899
e2

“four corn cultivars”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 420–439

Title

Effects of peg stress on corn cultivars (Zea mays L.) at germination stage.

Majid Khayatnezhad; Roza Gholamin; Shahzad Jamaati-e-Somarin; et al. World Applied Sciences Journal 2010

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drought · growth · Zea mays (maize)Positive and negative results

385 papers: 77 positive, 308 negative or no effect

307 papers in the same direction as this claim · 77 in the opposite direction

  1. no effect
    No significant differences in shoot and root fresh and dry weights among 60, 120 and 180 g/L PEG levels.

    Evaluation of highland maize (Zea mays L.) cultivars for polyethylene glycol (PEG) induced moisture stress tolerance at germination and seedling growth stages · 2014 · compared with 60, 120 and 180 g/L

    Same directionCites this paper

  2. negative
    Drought significantly decreased germination index and seedling vigour index.

    Evaluation of drought stress effects on germination and seedling growth of Zea mays L. · 2014 · compared with control

    Same directionCites this paper

  3. negative
    Root and shoot length and fresh and dry weights declined under water stress.

    GENERATION MEAN ANALYSIS FOR DIFFERENT MORPHO-PHYSIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS OF MAIZE SEEDLING UNDER DIFFERENT REGIMES OF WATER · 2024

    Same directionCites this paper

  4. negative
    Water stress reduced root and shoot lengths and fresh weights.

    GENERATION MEAN ANALYSIS FOR DIFFERENT MORPHO-PHYSIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS OF MAIZE SEEDLING UNDER DIFFERENT REGIMES OF WATER · 2024

    Same directionCites this paper

  5. positive
    Moderate water stress in the field significantly increased corn root length.

    Root Development and Nitrogen Influx of Corn Genotypes Grown under Combined Drought and Nitrogen Stresses · 1993

    Opposite direction

  6. positive
    Under water deficit, proton flux and segmental elongation were well maintained in the 0 to 3 mm region behind the root tip.

    The Spatially Variable Inhibition by Water Deficit of Maize Root Growth Correlates with Altered Profiles of Proton Flux and Cell Wall pH · 2004 · compared with control treatments

    Opposite direction

  7. positive
    Root elongation of maize was promoted by PEG and ABA over the long term.

    Family-Wide Survey of miR169s and NF-YAs and Their Expression Profiles Response to Abiotic Stress in Maize Roots · 2014

    Opposite direction

  8. positive
    Droughted maize seedlings had higher relative growth and net assimilation rates in recovery.

    Drought enhances chilling tolerance in a chilling‐sensitive maize (Zea mays) variety · 1996 · compared with non‐droughted seedlings

    Opposite direction

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