Abstract
Water stress negatively impacts the physiology of plants, affecting their growth and development. It is considered among the most important environmental factors responsible for reduced crop production. In this regard, biofertilizers may be considered significant for their reparative properties to increase stress tolerance in crop plants. We studied the effects of water stress on the morphological and biochemical characteristics of onion plants with AMF (Funneliformis mosseae) and potassium silicate application. The water stress significantly affected all the studied traits, each with minimum recorded levels. Plants that received combined treatments of AMF and potassium silicate showed maximum percent increments in all the studied characteristics, e.g., plant height (156.7%), weight of bulb (416.8%), antioxidant activity (224.0%), membrane stability index (74.5%), relative water content (87.3%), and total soluble solids (63.71%). Therefore, the study demonstrated that all the investigated variables were affected negatively by water stress. However, bio-fortification of onion plants with silicates and AMF inoculation may be considered useful for functional food production, with numerous health promoting properties.
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Claims 8
Claim · model-written summary
Water stress significantly reduced all studied onion traits.
- Taxon
- Onion
Allium cepat0 - Treatment
- water stresse0
- Outcome
- all the studied traitse0
- Direction
- minimume0
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Verbatim
e0“The water stress significantly affected all the studied traits, each with minimum recorded levels.”
t0“Onion”
Claim · model-written summary
Combined AMF and potassium silicate treatment produced the maximum increment in onion plant height.
- Taxon
- OnionAllium cepat0
- Treatment
- combined treatments of AMF and potassium silicatee0
- Interactor
- AMFe0symbiont
- Outcome
- plant heighte0
- Direction
- maximum percent incrementse0
- Value
- 156.7%e0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Plants that received combined treatments of AMF and potassium silicate showed maximum percent increments in all the studied characteristics, e.g., plant height (156.7%), weight of bulb (416.8%), antioxidant activity (224.0%), membrane stability index (74.5%), relative water content (87.3%), and total soluble solids (63.71%).”
t0“Onion”
Claim · model-written summary
Combined AMF and potassium silicate treatment produced the maximum increment in onion weight of bulb.
- Taxon
- OnionAllium cepat0
- Treatment
- combined treatments of AMF and potassium silicatee0
- Interactor
- AMFe0symbiont
- Outcome
- weight of bulbe0
- Direction
- maximum percent incrementse0
- Value
- 416.8%e0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Plants that received combined treatments of AMF and potassium silicate showed maximum percent increments in all the studied characteristics, e.g., plant height (156.7%), weight of bulb (416.8%), antioxidant activity (224.0%), membrane stability index (74.5%), relative water content (87.3%), and total soluble solids (63.71%).”
t0“Onion”
Claim · model-written summary
Combined AMF and potassium silicate treatment produced the maximum increment in onion antioxidant activity.
- Taxon
- OnionAllium cepat0
- Treatment
- combined treatments of AMF and potassium silicatee0
- Interactor
- AMFe0symbiont
- Outcome
- antioxidant activitye0
- Direction
- maximum percent incrementse0
- Value
- 224.0%e0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Plants that received combined treatments of AMF and potassium silicate showed maximum percent increments in all the studied characteristics, e.g., plant height (156.7%), weight of bulb (416.8%), antioxidant activity (224.0%), membrane stability index (74.5%), relative water content (87.3%), and total soluble solids (63.71%).”
t0“Onion”
Claim · model-written summary
Combined AMF and potassium silicate treatment produced the maximum increment in onion membrane stability index.
- Taxon
- OnionAllium cepat0
- Treatment
- combined treatments of AMF and potassium silicatee0
- Interactor
- AMFe0symbiont
- Outcome
- membrane stability indexe0
- Direction
- maximum percent incrementse0
- Value
- 74.5%e0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Plants that received combined treatments of AMF and potassium silicate showed maximum percent increments in all the studied characteristics, e.g., plant height (156.7%), weight of bulb (416.8%), antioxidant activity (224.0%), membrane stability index (74.5%), relative water content (87.3%), and total soluble solids (63.71%).”
t0“Onion”
Claim · model-written summary
Combined AMF and potassium silicate treatment produced the maximum increment in onion relative water content.
- Taxon
- OnionAllium cepat0
- Treatment
- combined treatments of AMF and potassium silicatee0
- Interactor
- AMFe0symbiont
- Outcome
- relative water contente0
- Direction
- maximum percent incrementse0
- Value
- 87.3%e0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Plants that received combined treatments of AMF and potassium silicate showed maximum percent increments in all the studied characteristics, e.g., plant height (156.7%), weight of bulb (416.8%), antioxidant activity (224.0%), membrane stability index (74.5%), relative water content (87.3%), and total soluble solids (63.71%).”
t0“Onion”
Claim · model-written summary
Combined AMF and potassium silicate treatment produced the maximum increment in onion total soluble solids.
- Taxon
- OnionAllium cepat0
- Treatment
- combined treatments of AMF and potassium silicatee0
- Interactor
- AMFe0symbiont
- Outcome
- total soluble solidse0
- Direction
- maximum percent incrementse0
- Value
- 63.71%e0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Plants that received combined treatments of AMF and potassium silicate showed maximum percent increments in all the studied characteristics, e.g., plant height (156.7%), weight of bulb (416.8%), antioxidant activity (224.0%), membrane stability index (74.5%), relative water content (87.3%), and total soluble solids (63.71%).”
t0“Onion”
Claim · model-written summary
The authors suggest silicate fortification and AMF inoculation of onion for functional food production.
- Taxon
- onionAllium cepae0
- Treatment
- silicates and AMF inoculatione0
- Interactor
- AMFe0symbiont
- Outcome
- functional food productione0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“bio-fortification of onion plants with silicates and AMF inoculation may be considered useful for functional food production”
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