Paper · 1959 · American Journal of Botany

INTERACTIVE EFFECTS OF GIBBERELLIC ACID AND SALINITY ON THE GROWTH OF BEANS

R. H. Nieman; Leon Bernstein

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Abstract

N ieman , R. H., and L eon B ernstein . (U. S. Salinity Laboratory, Riverside, Calif.) Interactive effects of gibberellic acid and salinity on the growth of beans. Amer. Jour. Bot. 46(9): 667–670. 1959.—Dwarf red kidney bean plants, grown from the primary leaf stage to maturity on a graded salt series (0, 1.5, 3.0 and 4.5 atm. O.P. NaCl added to a base nutrient solution), showed a progressive and highly significant growth depression with increasing concentration of NaCl. At low levels of salinity (0 and 1.5 atm. O.P.), gibberellic acid applied as a spray to primary leaves, in concentrations of 10 and 100 p.p.m. in distilled water, increased the stem length, fresh and dry wt. of both the top and the root, the yield of green beans, area per leaf, and the total leaf area per plant. At high levels of salinity (3.0 and 4.5 atm. O.P.) growth was so severely suppressed that the expression of all gibberellin effects, except the increase in stem length, was essentially prevented. Gibberellin was, therefore, ineffective in overcoming the salt‐induced suppression of growth. An increased rate of water use per unit leaf area was quite consistently observed with the gibberellin‐treated plants. This may be simply the result of the increased exposure to light and to air movement of leaves on an elongated stem.

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Claims 4

Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultnegativesignificant (as stated)measured

Claim · model-written summary

Increasing NaCl concentration caused a progressive and highly significant depression of growth in dwarf red kidney bean plants.

Taxon
Dwarf red kidney bean plantse1
Treatment
increasing concentration of NaCle2
Outcome
growthe2
Direction
depressione2

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Verbatim

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“Dwarf red kidney bean plants”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 203–231 · show in text ↑
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“showed a progressive and highly significant growth depression with increasing concentration of NaCl”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 375–474 · show in text ↑
Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultpositivemeasured

Claim · model-written summary

At low salinity, gibberellic acid sprayed on primary leaves increased stem length and the fresh and dry weight of top and root in kidney bean.

Taxon
Dwarf red kidney bean plantse1
Treatment
gibberellic acid applied as a spray to primary leavese2
Outcome
stem length, fresh and dry wt. of both the top and the roote2
Direction
increasede2
Qualifier
At low levels of salinity (0 and 1.5 atm. O.P.)e2

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Verbatim

e1

“Dwarf red kidney bean plants”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 203–231 · show in text ↑
e2

“At low levels of salinity (0 and 1.5 atm. O.P.), gibberellic acid applied as a spray to primary leaves, in concentrations of 10 and 100 p.p.m. in distilled water, increased the stem length, fresh and dry wt. of both the top and the root”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 476–712 · show in text ↑
Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultpositivemeasured

Claim · model-written summary

At low salinity, gibberellic acid increased the yield of green beans, area per leaf and total leaf area per plant.

Taxon
Dwarf red kidney bean plantse1
Treatment
gibberellic acid applied as a spray to primary leavese3
Outcome
the yield of green beans, area per leaf, and the total leaf area per plante3
Direction
increasede3
Qualifier
At low levels of salinity (0 and 1.5 atm. O.P.)e3

Not reportedComparator

Verbatim

e1

“Dwarf red kidney bean plants”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 203–231 · show in text ↑
e3

“At low levels of salinity (0 and 1.5 atm. O.P.), gibberellic acid applied as a spray to primary leaves, in concentrations of 10 and 100 p.p.m. in distilled water, increased the stem length, fresh and dry wt. of both the top and the root, the yield of green beans, area per leaf, and the total leaf area per plant”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 476–788 · show in text ↑
Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultnegativemeasured

Claim · model-written summary

At high salinity, growth suppression essentially prevented all gibberellin effects except the increase in stem length.

Taxon
Dwarf red kidney bean plantse1
Treatment
high levels of salinity (3.0 and 4.5 atm. O.P.)e4
Outcome
expression of all gibberellin effectse4
Direction
essentially preventede4
Qualifier
except the increase in stem lengthe4

Not reportedComparator

Verbatim

e1

“Dwarf red kidney bean plants”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 203–231 · show in text ↑
e4

“At high levels of salinity (3.0 and 4.5 atm. O.P.) growth was so severely suppressed that the expression of all gibberellin effects, except the increase in stem length, was essentially prevented”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 790–984 · show in text ↑

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