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Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultpositivemeasured

Claim · model-written summary

TMB2x9172 had the least decrease in relative water content under stress.

Taxon: Musa spp.Musat0
Material: TMB2x9172e0
Treatment: stresse0
Outcome: relative water contente0
Direction: least decreasee0

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““TMB2x9172” showed the least decrease in relative water content and highest root-shoot ratio increase under stress.”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 1508–1623

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“banana ( Musa spp.)”
✓ located verbatim in the source · title, characters 12–31

Title

Response of banana ( Musa spp.) to drought stress based on phenotypic and physiological traits

Moureen Nansamba; Julia Sibiya; Robooni Tumuhimbise; et al. Journal of Crop Improvement 2022. doi:10.1080/15427528.2022.2148313

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Intervention effect Drought significantly reduced plant height, total leaf area and leaf numbers.
Intervention effect Drought significantly reduced total dry matter, chlorophyll and relative water content.
Intervention effect Water use efficiency increased under stress in 12 genotypes.
Association Stomatal conductance depended on the interaction between genotype and porometer reading time.
Intervention effect ITC.0987 was most tolerant, with the least effect on above-ground growth.
Intervention effect TMB2x9722-1 had the least total dry matter reduction among improved diploids.
Intervention effect TMB2x9722-1 had the highest water use efficiency among improved diploids.
Intervention effect TMB2x9172 had the highest increase in root-shoot ratio under stress.
Recommendation ITC.0987, TMB2x9722-1 and TMB2x9172 were identified as drought-tolerant breeding candidates.

Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultnegativesignificant (as stated)measured

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Susceptible genotypes had a significant decrease in relative water content under salinity.

Taxon: chickpeaCicer arietinumt0
Material: ICC 249 & ICC 247e0
Treatment: salinity stresst0
Outcome: relative water contente0
Direction: decreasee0

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“significant decrease in total chlorophyll and relative water content in susceptible genotypes (ICC 249 & ICC 247)”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 926–1039

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“Screening and evaluation of chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) genotypes for salinity stress tolerance: A biochemical, physiological and yield assessment”
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Title

Screening and evaluation of chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) genotypes for salinity stress tolerance: A biochemical, physiological and yield assessment

T Aman; J Priyanka; K Rajneesh; et al. Plant Science Today 2025. doi:10.14719/pst.5365

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Observation Traits varied significantly across genotypes.
Intervention effect Susceptible genotypes had a significant decrease in total chlorophyll under salinity.
Observation Tolerant genotypes had significantly smaller declines in chlorophyll and relative water content.
Association Lipid peroxidation increased significantly in tolerant versus sensitive genotypes.
Association Proline content increased significantly in tolerant versus sensitive genotypes.
Association Protein content increased nonsignificantly in tolerant versus sensitive genotypes.
Mechanism The authors attribute higher proline content under salinity to stress related protein production.
Observation ICC5439 and GNG 1581 were classified as highly tolerant.
Observation ICC 6050, ICC 251, ICC 252 and ICC 262 were classified as medium tolerant.
Observation ICC253, ICC 247 and ICC 249 were classified as highly susceptible.
Observation The remaining genotypes were minimally tolerant or sensitive.
Association Trait associations were significant and direct.

Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultnegativemeasured

Claim · model-written summary

Salinity reduced chickpea chlorophyll content, relative water content and water retention capacity.

Taxon: chickpeaCicer arietinume1
Treatment: salinity stresse0
Outcome: chlorophyll content, a decrease in relative water content, a decline in water retention capacitye0
Direction: reductione0

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“salinity stress which included a reduction in chlorophyll content, a decrease in relative water content, a decline in water retention capacity”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 1526–1668

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“salinity stress on chickpea”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 262–289

Title

Enhancing Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) Tolerance to Salinity through Plant Growth Regulators

Hasib Bin Saif; Nadira Mokarroma; Kanis Fatema Ruma; et al. Asian Journal of Research in Agriculture and Forestry 2023. doi:10.9734/ajraf/2023/v9i4243

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Intervention effect Salinity reduced total dry weight and yield.
Intervention effect Foliar gibberellic acid alleviated salinity impact, with 10 ppm most effective under mild stress.

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Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultnegativesignificant (as stated)measured

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Water stress significantly decreased relative water content and chlorophyll stability index.

Treatment: Water stresse0
Outcome: relative water content, chlorophyll stability indexe0
Direction: decreasee0

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“Water stress was found to decrease significantly in the data of photosynthetic rate, transpiration rate, stomatal conductance, relative water content, chlorophyll stability index”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 642–820

Title

Brassinolide induced modulation of physiology, growth and yield of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) under water stress condition

Suman Dhayal; DL Bagdi; BL Kakralya; et al. Crop Research 2012

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Intervention effect Water stress significantly decreased photosynthetic rate, transpiration rate and stomatal conductance.
Intervention effect Water stress significantly decreased leaf area, leaf dry weight and plant height.
Intervention effect Water stress significantly decreased spikes per plant, grains per ear and test weight.
Intervention effect Water stress significantly decreased grain yield.
Intervention effect Brassinolide significantly increased the measured physiological, growth and yield parameters in both wheat cultivars through 1.5 ppm.
Association The measured physiological, growth and yield variables were positively correlated with grain yield.

Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultnegativemeasured

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Skipping irrigation at flowering decreased relative water content in sunflower.

Treatment: skipping irrigation at this stagee0
Outcome: relative water content (RWC %)e0
Direction: decreasee0

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“skipping irrigation at this stage caused marked decrease in chlorophyll content in leaves, relative water content (RWC %)”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 911–1032

Title

Effect of Skipping Irrigation at Different Growth Stages and Zinc Foliar Application on Yield and Water Productivity of Sunflower

Rania El Mantawy; Dalia El-Hag Journal of Plant Production 2018. doi:10.21608/jpp.2018.35488

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Intervention effect Skipping irrigation at flowering decreased sunflower leaf chlorophyll content.
Intervention effect Skipping irrigation at flowering decreased sunflower seed oil percentage.
Intervention effect Skipping irrigation at flowering decreased sunflower seed yield and its components.
Intervention effect Skipping irrigation at flowering increased sunflower proline content.
Intervention effect Skipping irrigation at flowering increased sunflower seed protein percentage.
Intervention effect Zinc spraying significantly affected the studied sunflower attributes.
Intervention effect Traditional irrigation gave the highest seasonal amount of water applied.
Intervention effect Traditional irrigation gave the highest water productivity.
Recommendation The authors recommend zinc application to increase sunflower yield under drought stress.
Recommendation The authors conclude that skipping vegetative stage irrigation with 1% zinc sulfate can maintain high sunflower seed yield with less applied water.

Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultpositivemeasured

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Under water stress, YS-1L had a smaller decrease in leaf relative water content than other wheat species.

Taxon: wheat speciesTriticum aestivume0
Material: YS-1Le0
Treatment: Stress treatmente0
Outcome: leaf RWCe0
Direction: much smaller decreasee0
Comparator: other wheat speciese0

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“Stress treatment caused a much smaller decrease in the leaf RWC and rise in MDA content in YS-1L compared to the other wheat species.”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 1284–1417

Title

Assessment of drought tolerance of some Triticum L. species through physiological indices

Muhammad Abdul Rab Faisal SULTAN; Liu HUI; Lv Jin YANG; et al. Czech Journal of Genetics and Plant Breeding 2012. doi:10.17221/21/2012-cjgpb

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Intervention effect Under water stress, YS-1L had a smaller rise in MDA content than other wheat species.
Observation YS-1L had significantly higher proline under water stress.
Observation YS-1L had significantly higher relative water content under water stress.
Observation YS-1L had lower MDA content under water stress.
Observation YS-1L was the most drought tolerant of the studied species.
Observation The water-stress tolerance ranking was YS-1L > YS-2L > SH6 > 87341 > ZY1 > MXLK > ALLT.
Association The authors speculated that cellular drought tolerance was associated with proline accumulation and water conservation.

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Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultsignificant (as stated)measured

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Only common bean had a significant decrease in relative water content.

Taxon: Common BeanPhaseolus vulgarist0
Outcome: relative water contente0
Direction: reductione0

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“Significant relative water content reduction was detected only in CB.”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 1567–1636

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“Common Bean”
✓ located verbatim in the source · title, characters 35–46

Title

Breeding for Drought Resistance in Common Bean: In Vitro Assay for Root Osmotic Potential

Mohamed F. Mohamed; Azza A. Tawfik Journal of Crop Improvement 2008. doi:10.1080/15427520802224584

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Observation Unstressed common bean calli had higher osmotic potential and relative growth rate than tepary calli.
Observation Unstressed common bean calli had lower dry matter percentage than tepary calli.
Intervention effect Water stress did not affect measured parameters for common bean leaf callus or tepary leaf and root calli.
Intervention effect Common bean root callus osmotic potential decreased under water stress and remained low after recovery.
Intervention effect Common bean root callus relative growth rate decreased.
Intervention effect Common bean root callus dry matter increased.
Intervention effect Stress significantly reduced leaf, stem and root dry mass and leaf area in both bean types.
Observation Mass reduction was especially high in common bean stem, leaf and root.
Observation Tepary roots penetrated deeper in soil.
Intervention effect Common bean root depth did not significantly change with drought.
Observation Substantial common bean root mass occurred in the upper 10 to 20 cm of soil.
Observation Common bean had higher stomatal conductance and transpiration than tepary under both watering regimes.
Observation Soil moisture near common bean roots was higher than near tepary roots during stress.
Intervention effect Stressed common bean produced no seed yield in the production field.
Intervention effect Stressed tepary retained 60 to 64% of potential dry seed yield.
Recommendation The authors recommend the root osmotic potential assay for common bean drought resistance improvement.

Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultmeasured

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Later in growth, rice straw covering decreased soil temperature and water content relative to plastic film.

Treatment: covering with rice strawe0
Outcome: soil temperature and water contente0
Direction: decreasee0
Qualifier: At the later growing stagee0
Comparator: covering with plastic filme0

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“At the later growing stage,in comparison with covering with plastic film,covering with rice straw could decrease the soil temperature and water content”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 450–601

Title

Studies on Effects of Different Mulch Ways on Flue-cured Tobacco

Qiang Zeng 2009

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Intervention effect Early in growth, straw covering gave lower soil temperature than plastic film covering.
Intervention effect Early in growth, straw covering gave higher soil water content than plastic film covering.
Intervention effect Later in growth, rice straw covering promoted tobacco root system development relative to plastic film.
Intervention effect Rice straw covering reduced the occurrence of tobacco disease caused by Pseudomonas solanacearum relative to plastic film.
Intervention effect Rice straw covering favored tobacco leaf growth and maturity compared with plastic film.
Intervention effect Rice straw covering gave better economic traits and chemical compositions of flue-cured tobacco leaves than plastic film.
Intervention effect Whole-season rice straw covering could save 264.83 yuan/667m2 in total labor cost.
Intervention effect Whole-season rice straw covering had the highest economic benefit.
Recommendation The authors recommend whole-season rice straw covering as suitable for flue-cured tobacco in Shaowu.

Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultpositivesignificant (as stated)measured

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Two-week irrigation reduced relative water content by 25.11% and 26.19%.

Taxon: barleyHordeum vulgaret0
Treatment: Irrigation every two weekse0
Outcome: relative water contente0
Direction: reducede0
Value: 25.11 and 26.19%e0
Comparator: one weeke0

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“Irrigation every two weeks instead of one week reduced significantly all growth attributes. The relative decrease percentages were 25.41 and 22.93%, 22.63 and 19.98%, and 25.11 and 26.19% for flag leaf blade area, total chlorophyll and relative water content in both seasons, respectively.”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 464–753

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“BARLEY (HORDEUM VULGARE L.)”
✓ located verbatim in the source · title, characters 71–98

Title

INFLUENCE OF GLYCINEBETAINE AND NITROGEN LEVELS ON GROWTH AND YIELD OF BARLEY (HORDEUM VULGARE L.) UNDER DROUGHT CONDITIONS

Maher Kotb; El Sayed Gaballah Journal of Productivity and Development 2007. doi:10.21608/jpd.2007.44939

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Intervention effect Two-week irrigation reduced flag leaf blade area by 25.41% and 22.93% in the two seasons.
Intervention effect Two-week irrigation reduced total chlorophyll by 22.63% and 19.98%.
Intervention effect 85 kg N/fad increased flag leaf blade area by 12.80 and 13.63% compared with 45 kg N/fad.
Intervention effect 85 kg N/fad increased total chlorophyll by 1.88 and 3.50% compared with 45 kg N/fad.
Intervention effect 85 kg N/fad increased relative water content by 3.28 and 4.59% compared with 45 kg N/fad.
Intervention effect 12 mM glycinebetaine increased flag leaf blade area by 20.63 and 23.06% compared with untreated plants.
Intervention effect 12 mM glycinebetaine increased total chlorophyll by 32.30 and 35.80% compared with untreated plants.
Intervention effect 12 mM glycinebetaine increased relative water content by 22.57 and 30.40% compared with untreated plants.
Intervention effect Increasing nitrogen without glycinebetaine did not increase total chlorophyll under either water condition.
Intervention effect Increasing glycinebetaine significantly increased total chlorophyll.
Intervention effect Extending irrigation from 7 to 14 days reduced grain yield by 22.73 and 26.02%.
Intervention effect Extending irrigation from 7 to 14 days reduced straw yield by 26.73 and 24.79%.
Intervention effect Increasing nitrogen from 45 to 85 kg N/fad increased grain yield by 12.84 and 12.78%.
Intervention effect Increasing nitrogen from 45 to 85 kg N/fad increased straw yield by 16.43 and 14.7%.
Intervention effect Increasing nitrogen from 45 to 85 kg N/fad increased mean productivity by 12.88 and 12.85%.
Intervention effect Application of 12mM GB/fad increased grain yield by 21.27 and 24.77% compared with zero GB.
Intervention effect Application of 12mM GB/fad increased straw yield by 24.82 and 26.83% compared with zero GB.
Intervention effect Application of 12mM GB/fad increased mean productivity by 21.30 and 24.73% compared with zero GB.
Intervention effect The 8mM GB and 85 kg nitrogen combination yielded more than zero GB and 45 kg nitrogen under frequent irrigation and drought.

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As relative water content declined, Comet water potential tended to decrease faster than the other genotypes.

Taxon: PeanutArachis hypogaeat0
Material: Comete0
Outcome: ψ we0
Direction: decrease more rapidlye0
Qualifier: as RWC declinede0
Comparator: OK‐FH15 or Florunnere0

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“The data indicated that as RWC declined, Comet ψ w tended to decrease more rapidly than either OK‐FH15 or Florunner.”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 1356–1472

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“Peanut”
✓ located verbatim in the source · title, characters 14–20

Title

Evaluation of Peanut Genotypes for Resistance to Water Stress In Situ¹

P. I. Erickson; D. L. Ketring Crop Science 1985. doi:10.2135/cropsci1985.0011183x002500050034x

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“decrease in relative water content”

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