Paper · 2016 · Journal of Plant Nutrition

Foliar-applied trehalose modulates growth, mineral nutrition, photosynthetic ability, and oxidative defense system of rice (Oryza sativa L.) under saline stress

Muhammad Shahbaz; Abida Abid; Atifa Masood; et al.

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Abstract

A tub experiment was conducted to assess the effect of exogenously applied trehalose (0, 10, and 20 mM) on various attributes of two rice cultivars (Bas-385 and Bas-2000) under salt stress (0, 50, 100, and 150 mM). Salinity decreased growth, gas exchange characteristics, shoot and root potassium (K+) ions, hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), total soluble proteins, activity of catalase (CAT), and yield attributes, while it increased chlorophyll contents, shoot and root sodium (Na+) and calcium (Ca2+), malondialdehyde (MDA), glycinebetain (GB), free proline, and peroxidase (POD) activity. Foliar-applied trehalose improved growth attributes, net photosynthetic rate, GB, total soluble proteins, superoxide dismutase (SOD) and yield. Yield was not obtained at 150 mM salt stress. The rice cultivar Bas-2000 showed better performance with respect to gas exchange attributes and activities of enzymatic antioxidants. Overall, varying levels of foliar-applied trehalose proved to be effective in ameliorating adverse effects of salt stress on rice.

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Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultnegativemeasured

Claim · model-written summary

Salinity decreased growth.

Taxon
rice (Oryza sativa L.)Oryza sativat0
Treatment
Salinitye0
Outcome
growthe0
Direction
decreasede0

Not reportedComparator

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

Oryza sativa
Oryza sativa · Taxon · picture from its Wikimedia Commons categoryDesmanthus4food · CC BY-SA 3.0 us · Wikimedia Commons ↗

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“Salinity decreased growth, gas exchange characteristics, shoot and root potassium (K+) ions, hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), total soluble proteins, activity of catalase (CAT), and yield attributes, while it increased chlorophyll contents, shoot and root sodium (Na+) and calcium (Ca2+), malondialdehyde (MDA), glycinebetain (GB), free proline, and peroxidase (POD) activity.”

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“rice (Oryza sativa L.)”

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Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultnegativemeasured

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Salinity decreased gas exchange characteristics.

Taxon
rice (Oryza sativa L.)Oryza sativat0
Treatment
Salinitye0
Outcome
gas exchange characteristicse0
Direction
decreasede0

Not reportedComparator

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

Oryza sativa
Oryza sativa · Taxon · picture from its Wikimedia Commons categoryDesmanthus4food · CC BY-SA 3.0 us · Wikimedia Commons ↗

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“Salinity decreased growth, gas exchange characteristics, shoot and root potassium (K+) ions, hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), total soluble proteins, activity of catalase (CAT), and yield attributes, while it increased chlorophyll contents, shoot and root sodium (Na+) and calcium (Ca2+), malondialdehyde (MDA), glycinebetain (GB), free proline, and peroxidase (POD) activity.”

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“rice (Oryza sativa L.)”

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Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultnegativemeasured

Claim · model-written summary

Salinity decreased shoot and root potassium (K+) ions.

Taxon
rice (Oryza sativa L.)Oryza sativat0
Treatment
Salinitye0
Outcome
shoot and root potassium (K+) ionse0
Direction
decreasede0

Not reportedComparator

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

Oryza sativa
Oryza sativa · Taxon · picture from its Wikimedia Commons categoryDesmanthus4food · CC BY-SA 3.0 us · Wikimedia Commons ↗

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“Salinity decreased growth, gas exchange characteristics, shoot and root potassium (K+) ions, hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), total soluble proteins, activity of catalase (CAT), and yield attributes, while it increased chlorophyll contents, shoot and root sodium (Na+) and calcium (Ca2+), malondialdehyde (MDA), glycinebetain (GB), free proline, and peroxidase (POD) activity.”

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“rice (Oryza sativa L.)”

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Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultnegativemeasured

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Salinity decreased hydrogen peroxide (H2O2).

Taxon
rice (Oryza sativa L.)Oryza sativat0
Treatment
Salinitye0
Outcome
hydrogen peroxide (H2O2)e0
Direction
decreasede0

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

Oryza sativa
Oryza sativa · Taxon · picture from its Wikimedia Commons categoryDesmanthus4food · CC BY-SA 3.0 us · Wikimedia Commons ↗

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“Salinity decreased growth, gas exchange characteristics, shoot and root potassium (K+) ions, hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), total soluble proteins, activity of catalase (CAT), and yield attributes, while it increased chlorophyll contents, shoot and root sodium (Na+) and calcium (Ca2+), malondialdehyde (MDA), glycinebetain (GB), free proline, and peroxidase (POD) activity.”

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“rice (Oryza sativa L.)”

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Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultnegativemeasured

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Salinity decreased total soluble proteins.

Taxon
rice (Oryza sativa L.)Oryza sativat0
Treatment
Salinitye0
Outcome
total soluble proteinse0
Direction
decreasede0

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

Oryza sativa
Oryza sativa · Taxon · picture from its Wikimedia Commons categoryDesmanthus4food · CC BY-SA 3.0 us · Wikimedia Commons ↗

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“Salinity decreased growth, gas exchange characteristics, shoot and root potassium (K+) ions, hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), total soluble proteins, activity of catalase (CAT), and yield attributes, while it increased chlorophyll contents, shoot and root sodium (Na+) and calcium (Ca2+), malondialdehyde (MDA), glycinebetain (GB), free proline, and peroxidase (POD) activity.”

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“rice (Oryza sativa L.)”

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Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultnegativemeasured

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Salinity decreased activity of catalase (CAT).

Taxon
rice (Oryza sativa L.)Oryza sativat0
Treatment
Salinitye0
Outcome
activity of catalase (CAT)e0
Direction
decreasede0

Not reportedComparator

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

Oryza sativa
Oryza sativa · Taxon · picture from its Wikimedia Commons categoryDesmanthus4food · CC BY-SA 3.0 us · Wikimedia Commons ↗

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“Salinity decreased growth, gas exchange characteristics, shoot and root potassium (K+) ions, hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), total soluble proteins, activity of catalase (CAT), and yield attributes, while it increased chlorophyll contents, shoot and root sodium (Na+) and calcium (Ca2+), malondialdehyde (MDA), glycinebetain (GB), free proline, and peroxidase (POD) activity.”

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“rice (Oryza sativa L.)”

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Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultnegativemeasured

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Salinity decreased yield attributes.

Taxon
rice (Oryza sativa L.)Oryza sativat0
Treatment
Salinitye0
Outcome
yield attributese0
Direction
decreasede0

Not reportedComparator

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

Oryza sativa
Oryza sativa · Taxon · picture from its Wikimedia Commons categoryDesmanthus4food · CC BY-SA 3.0 us · Wikimedia Commons ↗

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“Salinity decreased growth, gas exchange characteristics, shoot and root potassium (K+) ions, hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), total soluble proteins, activity of catalase (CAT), and yield attributes, while it increased chlorophyll contents, shoot and root sodium (Na+) and calcium (Ca2+), malondialdehyde (MDA), glycinebetain (GB), free proline, and peroxidase (POD) activity.”

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“rice (Oryza sativa L.)”

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Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultnegativemeasured

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Salinity increased chlorophyll contents.

Taxon
rice (Oryza sativa L.)Oryza sativat0
Treatment
Salinitye0
Outcome
chlorophyll contentse0
Direction
increasede0

Not reportedComparator

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

Oryza sativa
Oryza sativa · Taxon · picture from its Wikimedia Commons categoryDesmanthus4food · CC BY-SA 3.0 us · Wikimedia Commons ↗

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e0

“Salinity decreased growth, gas exchange characteristics, shoot and root potassium (K+) ions, hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), total soluble proteins, activity of catalase (CAT), and yield attributes, while it increased chlorophyll contents, shoot and root sodium (Na+) and calcium (Ca2+), malondialdehyde (MDA), glycinebetain (GB), free proline, and peroxidase (POD) activity.”

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“rice (Oryza sativa L.)”

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Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultnegativemeasured

Claim · model-written summary

Salinity increased shoot and root sodium (Na+) and calcium (Ca2+).

Taxon
rice (Oryza sativa L.)Oryza sativat0
Treatment
Salinitye0
Outcome
shoot and root sodium (Na+) and calcium (Ca2+)e0
Direction
increasede0

Not reportedComparator

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

Oryza sativa
Oryza sativa · Taxon · picture from its Wikimedia Commons categoryDesmanthus4food · CC BY-SA 3.0 us · Wikimedia Commons ↗

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e0

“Salinity decreased growth, gas exchange characteristics, shoot and root potassium (K+) ions, hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), total soluble proteins, activity of catalase (CAT), and yield attributes, while it increased chlorophyll contents, shoot and root sodium (Na+) and calcium (Ca2+), malondialdehyde (MDA), glycinebetain (GB), free proline, and peroxidase (POD) activity.”

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“rice (Oryza sativa L.)”

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Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultnegativemeasured

Claim · model-written summary

Salinity increased malondialdehyde (MDA).

Taxon
rice (Oryza sativa L.)Oryza sativat0
Treatment
Salinitye0
Outcome
malondialdehyde (MDA)e0
Direction
increasede0

Not reportedComparator

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

Oryza sativa
Oryza sativa · Taxon · picture from its Wikimedia Commons categoryDesmanthus4food · CC BY-SA 3.0 us · Wikimedia Commons ↗

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“Salinity decreased growth, gas exchange characteristics, shoot and root potassium (K+) ions, hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), total soluble proteins, activity of catalase (CAT), and yield attributes, while it increased chlorophyll contents, shoot and root sodium (Na+) and calcium (Ca2+), malondialdehyde (MDA), glycinebetain (GB), free proline, and peroxidase (POD) activity.”

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“rice (Oryza sativa L.)”

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Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultnegativemeasured

Claim · model-written summary

Salinity increased glycinebetain (GB).

Taxon
rice (Oryza sativa L.)Oryza sativat0
Treatment
Salinitye0
Outcome
glycinebetain (GB)e0
Direction
increasede0

Not reportedComparator

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

Oryza sativa
Oryza sativa · Taxon · picture from its Wikimedia Commons categoryDesmanthus4food · CC BY-SA 3.0 us · Wikimedia Commons ↗

Verbatim

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“Salinity decreased growth, gas exchange characteristics, shoot and root potassium (K+) ions, hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), total soluble proteins, activity of catalase (CAT), and yield attributes, while it increased chlorophyll contents, shoot and root sodium (Na+) and calcium (Ca2+), malondialdehyde (MDA), glycinebetain (GB), free proline, and peroxidase (POD) activity.”

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“rice (Oryza sativa L.)”

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Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultnegativemeasured

Claim · model-written summary

Salinity increased free proline.

Taxon
rice (Oryza sativa L.)Oryza sativat0
Treatment
Salinitye0
Outcome
free prolinee0
Direction
increasede0

Not reportedComparator

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

Oryza sativa
Oryza sativa · Taxon · picture from its Wikimedia Commons categoryDesmanthus4food · CC BY-SA 3.0 us · Wikimedia Commons ↗

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“Salinity decreased growth, gas exchange characteristics, shoot and root potassium (K+) ions, hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), total soluble proteins, activity of catalase (CAT), and yield attributes, while it increased chlorophyll contents, shoot and root sodium (Na+) and calcium (Ca2+), malondialdehyde (MDA), glycinebetain (GB), free proline, and peroxidase (POD) activity.”

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“rice (Oryza sativa L.)”

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Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultnegativemeasured

Claim · model-written summary

Salinity increased peroxidase (POD) activity.

Taxon
rice (Oryza sativa L.)Oryza sativat0
Treatment
Salinitye0
Outcome
peroxidase (POD) activitye0
Direction
increasede0

Not reportedComparator

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

Oryza sativa
Oryza sativa · Taxon · picture from its Wikimedia Commons categoryDesmanthus4food · CC BY-SA 3.0 us · Wikimedia Commons ↗

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e0

“Salinity decreased growth, gas exchange characteristics, shoot and root potassium (K+) ions, hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), total soluble proteins, activity of catalase (CAT), and yield attributes, while it increased chlorophyll contents, shoot and root sodium (Na+) and calcium (Ca2+), malondialdehyde (MDA), glycinebetain (GB), free proline, and peroxidase (POD) activity.”

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“rice (Oryza sativa L.)”

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Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultpositivemeasured

Claim · model-written summary

Foliar-applied trehalose improved growth attributes.

Taxon
rice (Oryza sativa L.)Oryza sativat0
Treatment
Foliar-applied trehalosee0
Outcome
growth attributese0
Direction
improvede0

Not reportedComparator

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

Oryza sativa
Oryza sativa · Taxon · picture from its Wikimedia Commons categoryDesmanthus4food · CC BY-SA 3.0 us · Wikimedia Commons ↗

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“Foliar-applied trehalose improved growth attributes, net photosynthetic rate, GB, total soluble proteins, superoxide dismutase (SOD) and yield.”

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“rice (Oryza sativa L.)”

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Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultpositivemeasured

Claim · model-written summary

Foliar-applied trehalose improved net photosynthetic rate.

Taxon
rice (Oryza sativa L.)Oryza sativat0
Treatment
Foliar-applied trehalosee0
Outcome
net photosynthetic ratee0
Direction
improvede0

Not reportedComparator

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

Oryza sativa
Oryza sativa · Taxon · picture from its Wikimedia Commons categoryDesmanthus4food · CC BY-SA 3.0 us · Wikimedia Commons ↗

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“Foliar-applied trehalose improved growth attributes, net photosynthetic rate, GB, total soluble proteins, superoxide dismutase (SOD) and yield.”

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“rice (Oryza sativa L.)”

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Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultpositivemeasured

Claim · model-written summary

Foliar-applied trehalose improved GB.

Taxon
rice (Oryza sativa L.)Oryza sativat0
Treatment
Foliar-applied trehalosee0
Outcome
GBe0
Direction
improvede0

Not reportedComparator

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

Oryza sativa
Oryza sativa · Taxon · picture from its Wikimedia Commons categoryDesmanthus4food · CC BY-SA 3.0 us · Wikimedia Commons ↗

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e0

“Foliar-applied trehalose improved growth attributes, net photosynthetic rate, GB, total soluble proteins, superoxide dismutase (SOD) and yield.”

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“rice (Oryza sativa L.)”

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Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultpositivemeasured

Claim · model-written summary

Foliar-applied trehalose improved total soluble proteins.

Taxon
rice (Oryza sativa L.)Oryza sativat0
Treatment
Foliar-applied trehalosee0
Outcome
total soluble proteinse0
Direction
improvede0

Not reportedComparator

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

Oryza sativa
Oryza sativa · Taxon · picture from its Wikimedia Commons categoryDesmanthus4food · CC BY-SA 3.0 us · Wikimedia Commons ↗

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e0

“Foliar-applied trehalose improved growth attributes, net photosynthetic rate, GB, total soluble proteins, superoxide dismutase (SOD) and yield.”

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“rice (Oryza sativa L.)”

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Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultpositivemeasured

Claim · model-written summary

Foliar-applied trehalose improved superoxide dismutase (SOD).

Taxon
rice (Oryza sativa L.)Oryza sativat0
Treatment
Foliar-applied trehalosee0
Outcome
superoxide dismutase (SOD)e0
Direction
improvede0

Not reportedComparator

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

Oryza sativa
Oryza sativa · Taxon · picture from its Wikimedia Commons categoryDesmanthus4food · CC BY-SA 3.0 us · Wikimedia Commons ↗

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e0

“Foliar-applied trehalose improved growth attributes, net photosynthetic rate, GB, total soluble proteins, superoxide dismutase (SOD) and yield.”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 585–728 · show in text ↑
t0

“rice (Oryza sativa L.)”

✓ located verbatim in the source · title, characters 118–140 · show in text ↑
Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultpositivemeasured

Claim · model-written summary

Foliar-applied trehalose improved yield.

Taxon
rice (Oryza sativa L.)Oryza sativat0
Treatment
Foliar-applied trehalosee0
Outcome
yielde0
Direction
improvede0

Not reportedComparator

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

Oryza sativa
Oryza sativa · Taxon · picture from its Wikimedia Commons categoryDesmanthus4food · CC BY-SA 3.0 us · Wikimedia Commons ↗

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e0

“Foliar-applied trehalose improved growth attributes, net photosynthetic rate, GB, total soluble proteins, superoxide dismutase (SOD) and yield.”

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“rice (Oryza sativa L.)”

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Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultnegativemeasured

Claim · model-written summary

No rice yield was obtained under 150 mM salt stress.

Taxon
rice (Oryza sativa L.)Oryza sativat0
Treatment
150 mM salt stresse0
Outcome
Yielde0
Direction
not obtainede0

Not reportedComparator

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

Oryza sativa
Oryza sativa · Taxon · picture from its Wikimedia Commons categoryDesmanthus4food · CC BY-SA 3.0 us · Wikimedia Commons ↗

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“Yield was not obtained at 150 mM salt stress.”

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“rice (Oryza sativa L.)”

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trehalose · yield · Oryza sativa (rice)Positive and negative results

3 papers: 2 positive, 1 negative or no effect

1 paper in the same direction as this paper · 1 in the opposite direction

  1. no effect
  2. positive
See all 3 papers →

trehalose · physiology: photosynthesis · Oryza sativa (rice)Results agree

2 papers: 2 positive, 0 negative or no effect

1 paper in the same direction as this paper

  1. positive
See all 2 papers →

trehalose · molecular: metabolites · Oryza sativa (rice)Results agree

2 papers: 2 positive, 0 negative or no effect

1 paper in the same direction as this paper

  1. positive
See all 2 papers →

trehalose · growth · Oryza sativa (rice)Results agree

2 papers: 2 positive, 0 negative or no effect

1 paper in the same direction as this paper

  1. positive
See all 2 papers →

salinity · physiology: gas exchange · Oryza sativa (rice)Results differ

14 papers: 2 positive, 12 negative or no effect

11 papers in the same direction as this paper · 2 in the opposite direction

  1. positive
  2. positive
  3. negative

10 papers more in this group

See all 14 papers →

salinity · physiology: osmolytes · Oryza sativa (rice)Results differ

29 papers: 19 positive, 10 negative or no effect

9 papers in the same direction as this paper · 19 in the opposite direction

  1. positive
  2. positive
  3. positive

25 papers more in this group

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salinity · physiology: antioxidant enzymes · Oryza sativa (rice)Results differ

43 papers: 18 positive, 25 negative or no effect

24 papers in the same direction as this paper · 18 in the opposite direction

  1. positive
  2. positive
  3. positive

39 papers more in this group

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salinity · physiology: oxidative · Oryza sativa (rice)Results differ

66 papers: 7 positive, 59 negative or no effect

58 papers in the same direction as this paper · 7 in the opposite direction

  1. positive
  2. positive
  3. positive

62 papers more in this group

See all 66 papers →

8 of 19 groups shown: named compounds and organisms first, then groups whose results differ (checked claim by claim), then those with positive and negative results, then the smaller groups.

Claims are grouped by organism, treatment and what was measured or targeted. A paper counts as positive when any of its claims in the group is positive.