Abstract
This report discusses water stress-induced changes and their amelioration by added potassium in Sorghum bicolor L. Chlorophylls, carotenoids, and the activity of nitrogen metabolizing enzymes viz., nitrate reductase, alanine aminotransferase and aspartate aminotransferase were adversely affected under water stress and restricted irrigation. Osmotic as well as water stress trigger ROS production while potassium ameliorated these changes to some extent and increased the activity of SOD, CAT, APX, and GR and the contents of GSH and AsA. Water stress-induced changes ultimately reflecting on growth and yield parameters like plant height, biomass yield, grain yield, days to flowering, and days to maturity. Added potassium affected these parameters positively, both under normal and stress conditions, indicating the use of potassium as a tool for mitigating the water stress induced deleterious changes in sorghum to some extent by enhancing the nitrogen use efficiency and strengthening the enzymatic and non-enzymatic antioxidant components. The results obtained here exhibited similar trends in seedlings and plants raised in sand cultures and field conditions, making them more meaningful and comprehensible.
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Claims 8
Claim · model-written summary
Water stress and restricted irrigation adversely affected chlorophylls, carotenoids and nitrogen-metabolising enzyme activity in sorghum.
- Taxon
- Sorghum bicolor L.
Sorghum bicolort0 - Treatment
- water stress and restricted irrigatione1
- Outcome
- Chlorophylls, carotenoids, and the activity of nitrogen metabolizing enzymese1
- Direction
- adversely affectede1
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Verbatim
t0“Sorghum bicolor L.”
e1“Chlorophylls, carotenoids, and the activity of nitrogen metabolizing enzymes viz., nitrate reductase, alanine aminotransferase and aspartate aminotransferase were adversely affected under water stress and restricted irrigation”
Claim · model-written summary
Water stress increased ROS production in sorghum.
- Taxon
- Sorghum bicolor L.Sorghum bicolort0
- Treatment
- water stresse2
- Outcome
- ROS productione2
- Direction
- increaseinferrede2
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t0“Sorghum bicolor L.”
e2“Osmotic as well as water stress trigger ROS production”
Claim · model-written summary
Potassium ameliorated the water-stress-induced ROS production to some extent.
- Taxon
- Sorghum bicolor L.Sorghum bicolort0
- Treatment
- potassiume3
- Outcome
- ROS productione2
- Direction
- amelioratede3
- Qualifier
- to some extente3
- Comparator
- water stresse2
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Verbatim
t0“Sorghum bicolor L.”
e2“Osmotic as well as water stress trigger ROS production”
e3“potassium ameliorated these changes to some extent”
Claim · model-written summary
Potassium increased the activity of SOD, CAT, APX and GR in sorghum.
- Taxon
- Sorghum bicolor L.Sorghum bicolort0
- Treatment
- potassiume3
- Outcome
- the activity of SOD, CAT, APX, and GRe4
- Direction
- increasede4
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Verbatim
t0“Sorghum bicolor L.”
e3“potassium ameliorated these changes to some extent”
e4“increased the activity of SOD, CAT, APX, and GR and the contents of GSH and AsA”
Claim · model-written summary
Potassium increased the contents of GSH and AsA in sorghum.
- Taxon
- Sorghum bicolor L.Sorghum bicolort0
- Treatment
- potassiume3
- Outcome
- the contents of GSH and AsAe4
- Direction
- increasede4
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Verbatim
t0“Sorghum bicolor L.”
e3“potassium ameliorated these changes to some extent”
e4“increased the activity of SOD, CAT, APX, and GR and the contents of GSH and AsA”
Claim · model-written summary
Added potassium affected growth and yield parameters positively under both normal and stress conditions.
- Taxon
- Sorghum bicolor L.Sorghum bicolort0
- Treatment
- potassiume5
- Outcome
- growth and yield parameterse6
- Direction
- positivelye5
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Verbatim
t0“Sorghum bicolor L.”
e5“Added potassium affected these parameters positively, both under normal and stress conditions”
e6“reflecting on growth and yield parameters like plant height”
Claim · model-written summary
Potassium mitigates water-stress-induced changes in sorghum, possibly by enhancing nitrogen use efficiency.
- Outcome
- water stress induced deleterious changese7
- Qualifier
- by enhancing the nitrogen use efficiencye7
SorghumOrganisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“Sorghum bicolor L.”
e7“as a tool for mitigating the water stress induced deleterious changes in sorghum to some extent by enhancing the nitrogen use efficiency”
Claim · model-written summary
Potassium effects showed similar trends in seedlings and plants grown in sand culture and in the field.
- Taxon
- Sorghum bicolor L.Sorghum bicolort0
- Material
- seedlings and plantse7
- Outcome
- similar trendse7
- Setting
- sand cultures and field conditionse7
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Verbatim
t0“Sorghum bicolor L.”
e7“The results obtained here exhibited similar trends in seedlings and plants raised in sand cultures and field conditions”
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