Abstract
Salinization is increasing on a global scale, and improving the tolerance of plants to salinity is urgent to study, so this study was conducted at the Department of Ornamental Horticulture, Faculty of Agriculture, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt during two successive seasons 2019 and 2020 to evaluate the effect of zinc sulfate and ZnO nanoparticles treatments as a foliar application at the level of 0, 20, and 40 ppm on some morphological and chemical features of Trigonella foenum-graecum plants grown under three salinity levels (0,1500, and 3000 ppm) aiming to reduce the negative effect of salinity on plant growth. The present study revealed that salinity stress caused a decrease in morphological traits (shoot length, number of branches/ plant, number of leaves/ plant, shoot fresh weight, shoot dry weight, root length, root fresh weight, and root dry weight) and harvest traits (number of pods/plant, number of seeds /pod, and 100 seed weight), as well as total phenols, and K+ /Na+ ratio. While, using zinc sulfate and ZnO nanoparticles gave high results with all studied morphological traits, and also improved the harvest characteristics of the fenugreek plants. The highest 100-seed weight and total saponins were obtained by the interaction between the treatments of ZnO nanoparticles at 40 ppm and salinity at 1500 ppm. According to the obtained results, it could be concluded that ZnO nanoparticles and zinc sulfate mitigated the negative effects at each level of salinity under this study.
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Claim · model-written summary
Salinity reduced fenugreek shoot morphology and biomass.
- Taxon
- Fenugreek Plants
Trigonella foenum-graecumt0 - Treatment
- salinity stresse0
- Outcome
- shoot length, number of branches/ plant, number of leaves/ plante0
- Direction
- decreasee0
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e0“salinity stress caused a decrease in morphological traits (shoot length, number of branches/ plant, number of leaves/ plant, shoot fresh weight, shoot dry weight, root length, root fresh weight, and root dry weight)”
t0“Fenugreek Plants”
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Salinity reduced fenugreek root traits.
- Taxon
- Fenugreek PlantsTrigonella foenum-graecumt0
- Treatment
- salinity stresse0
- Outcome
- root length, root fresh weight, and root dry weighte0
- Direction
- decreasee0
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Verbatim
e0“salinity stress caused a decrease in morphological traits (shoot length, number of branches/ plant, number of leaves/ plant, shoot fresh weight, shoot dry weight, root length, root fresh weight, and root dry weight)”
t0“Fenugreek Plants”
Claim · model-written summary
Salinity reduced fenugreek harvest traits.
- Taxon
- Fenugreek PlantsTrigonella foenum-graecumt0
- Treatment
- salinity stresse1
- Outcome
- number of pods/plant, number of seeds /pod, and 100 seed weighte0
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e0“harvest traits (number of pods/plant, number of seeds /pod, and 100 seed weight)”
t0“Fenugreek Plants”
e1“salinity stress caused a decrease in morphological traits (shoot length, number of branches/ plant, number of leaves/ plant, shoot fresh weight, shoot dry weight, root length, root fresh weight, and root dry weight)”
Claim · model-written summary
Salinity reduced total phenols and K+/Na+ ratio.
- Taxon
- Fenugreek PlantsTrigonella foenum-graecumt0
- Outcome
- total phenols, and K+ /Na+ ratioe0
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e0“as well as total phenols, and K+ /Na+ ratio”
t0“Fenugreek Plants”
Claim · model-written summary
Zinc sulfate improved studied morphology and harvest traits.
- Taxon
- fenugreek plantsTrigonella foenum-graecume0
- Treatment
- zinc sulfatee0
- Outcome
- all studied morphological traitse0
- Direction
- highe0
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Verbatim
e0“using zinc sulfate and ZnO nanoparticles gave high results with all studied morphological traits, and also improved the harvest characteristics of the fenugreek plants”
Claim · model-written summary
ZnO nanoparticles improved studied morphology and harvest traits.
- Taxon
- fenugreek plantsTrigonella foenum-graecume0
- Treatment
- ZnO nanoparticlese0
- Outcome
- harvest characteristicse0
- Direction
- improvede0
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Verbatim
e0“using zinc sulfate and ZnO nanoparticles gave high results with all studied morphological traits, and also improved the harvest characteristics of the fenugreek plants”
Claim · model-written summary
ZnO nanoparticles at 40 ppm with 1500 ppm salinity gave the highest 100-seed weight.
- Taxon
- Fenugreek PlantsTrigonella foenum-graecumt0
- Treatment
- ZnO nanoparticles at 40 ppm and salinity at 1500 ppme0
- Outcome
- 100-seed weighte0
- Direction
- higheste0
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e0“The highest 100-seed weight and total saponins were obtained by the interaction between the treatments of ZnO nanoparticles at 40 ppm and salinity at 1500 ppm.”
t0“Fenugreek Plants”
Claim · model-written summary
ZnO nanoparticles at 40 ppm with 1500 ppm salinity gave the highest total saponins.
- Taxon
- Fenugreek PlantsTrigonella foenum-graecumt0
- Treatment
- ZnO nanoparticles at 40 ppm and salinity at 1500 ppme0
- Outcome
- total saponinse0
- Direction
- higheste0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The highest 100-seed weight and total saponins were obtained by the interaction between the treatments of ZnO nanoparticles at 40 ppm and salinity at 1500 ppm.”
t0“Fenugreek Plants”
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