Abstract
Many plants confront several environmental stresses including heat, water stress, drought, salinity and high-metal concentrations that are crucial in defining plant productivity at different stages of their life cycle. Nitric oxide (NO) and Silicon (Si) are very effective molecules related in most of them and in varied biochemical events that have proven to be protective during cellular injury caused by some stress conditions like water stress. In the current work, we studied the effect of Si and NO alone and NO + Si interactive application on the response of plants exposed to water deficiency and well-watered plants for the Milord apricot variety. Water stress caused a reduce in chlorophyll content, dry and fresh weight, leaf area, stomatal conductivity, leaf relative water content and nutrient elements, while it caused an increase in leaf temperature, leaf proline, leaf malondialdehyde (MDA) content and membrane permeability. Si, NO and Si + NO combination treatments under water stress conditions significantly decreased the adverse effects of water stress on leaf temperature, leaf area, dry and fresh weight, stomata conductivity, relative water content, membrane permeability, L-proline and MDA content. The shoot dry weight, chlorophyll content, stomata conductivity and leaf relative water content in Si + NO treated apricot saplings increased by 59%, 55%, 12% and 8%, respectively. Combined treatment (Si + NO) was detected to be more effective than single applications (Si or NO) on some physiological, biochemical, morphological and nutritional properties of apricot under water stress conditions.
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Claim · model-written summary
Water stress reduced chlorophyll, biomass, leaf area, stomatal conductivity, relative water content and nutrients.
- Taxon
- apricot
Prunus armeniacat0 - Treatment
- Water stresse0
- Outcome
- chlorophyll content, dry and fresh weight, leaf area, stomatal conductivity, leaf relative water content and nutrient elementse0
- Direction
- reducee0
Not reportedComparator
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Verbatim
e0“Water stress caused a reduce in chlorophyll content, dry and fresh weight, leaf area, stomatal conductivity, leaf relative water content and nutrient elements”
t0“Apricots”
Claim · model-written summary
Water stress increased leaf temperature, proline, malondialdehyde and membrane permeability.
- Taxon
- ApricotsPrunus armeniacat0
- Treatment
- Water Stresst0
- Outcome
- leaf temperature, leaf proline, leaf malondialdehyde (MDA) content and membrane permeabilitye0
- Direction
- increasee0
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Verbatim
e0“it caused an increase in leaf temperature, leaf proline, leaf malondialdehyde (MDA) content and membrane permeability”
t0“Water Stress in Apricots”
Claim · model-written summary
Silicon treatment reduced adverse water-stress effects across measured leaf and growth traits.
- Taxon
- apricotPrunus armeniacat0
- Treatment
- Sie0
- Outcome
- adverse effects of water stresse0
- Direction
- decreasede0
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Verbatim
e0“Si, NO and Si + NO combination treatments under water stress conditions significantly decreased the adverse effects of water stress on leaf temperature, leaf area, dry and fresh weight, stomata conductivity, relative water content, membrane permeability, L-proline and MDA content”
t0“apricot”
Claim · model-written summary
Nitric oxide treatment reduced adverse water-stress effects.
- Taxon
- apricotPrunus armeniacat0
- Treatment
- NOe0
- Outcome
- adverse effects of water stresse0
- Direction
- decreasede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Si, NO and Si + NO combination treatments under water stress conditions significantly decreased the adverse effects of water stress”
t0“apricot”
Claim · model-written summary
Combined silicon and nitric oxide treatment reduced adverse water-stress effects.
- Taxon
- apricotPrunus armeniacat0
- Treatment
- Si + NOe0
- Outcome
- adverse effects of water stresse0
- Direction
- decreasede0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Si, NO and Si + NO combination treatments under water stress conditions significantly decreased the adverse effects of water stress”
t0“apricot”
Claim · model-written summary
Combined treatment increased shoot dry weight by 59%.
- Taxon
- apricotPrunus armeniacae0
- Treatment
- Si + NOe0
- Outcome
- shoot dry weighte0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Value
- 59%e0
Not reportedComparator
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Verbatim
e0“The shoot dry weight, chlorophyll content, stomata conductivity and leaf relative water content in Si + NO treated apricot saplings increased by 59%, 55%, 12% and 8%”
Claim · model-written summary
Combined treatment increased chlorophyll content by 55%.
- Taxon
- apricotPrunus armeniacae0
- Treatment
- Si + NOe0
- Outcome
- chlorophyll contente0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Value
- 55%e0
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Verbatim
e0“The shoot dry weight, chlorophyll content, stomata conductivity and leaf relative water content in Si + NO treated apricot saplings increased by 59%, 55%, 12% and 8%”
Claim · model-written summary
Combined treatment increased stomatal conductivity by 12%.
- Taxon
- apricotPrunus armeniacae0
- Treatment
- Si + NOe0
- Outcome
- stomata conductivitye0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Value
- 12%e0
Not reportedComparator
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Verbatim
e0“The shoot dry weight, chlorophyll content, stomata conductivity and leaf relative water content in Si + NO treated apricot saplings increased by 59%, 55%, 12% and 8%”
Claim · model-written summary
Combined treatment increased leaf relative water content by 8%.
- Taxon
- apricotPrunus armeniacae0
- Treatment
- Si + NOe0
- Outcome
- leaf relative water contente0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Value
- 8%e0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The shoot dry weight, chlorophyll content, stomata conductivity and leaf relative water content in Si + NO treated apricot saplings increased by 59%, 55%, 12% and 8%”
Claim · model-written summary
Combined treatment was more effective than single silicon or nitric oxide treatments.
- Taxon
- apricotPrunus armeniacae0
- Treatment
- Si + NOe0
- Outcome
- physiological, biochemical, morphological and nutritional propertiese0
- Direction
- more effectivee0
- Comparator
- single applications (Si or NO)e0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Combined treatment (Si + NO) was detected to be more effective than single applications (Si or NO) on some physiological, biochemical, morphological and nutritional properties of apricot under water stress conditions”
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