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Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultpositivemeasured

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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 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”
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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 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”
✓ located verbatim in the source · title, characters 0–148

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.

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Chamran under I1 had the smallest relative water content decline relative to I4.

Taxon: BREAD WHEATTriticum aestivumt0
Material: Chamrane0
Treatment: drought stress treatment (I1)e0
Outcome: relative water contente0
Direction: lowest decreasee0
Comparator: control treatment (I4)e0

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“BREAD WHEAT”
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“The Chamran cultivar (C1) on drought stress treatment (I1) had the lowest decrease in relative water content and total chlorophyll content than with control treatment (I4).”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 1180–1352

Title

THE EFFECTS OF DROUGHT STRESS ON YIELD, RELATIVE WATER CONTENT, PROLINE, SOLUBLE CARBOHYDRATES AND CHLOROPHYLL OF BREAD WHEAT CULTIVARS

Shamsi Keyvan The Journal of Animal and Plant Sciences 2010

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Association Greater drought intensity decreased relative water content.
Association Greater drought intensity decreased total chlorophyll content.
Association Greater drought intensity increased proline content.
Association Soluble carbohydrate content showed no consistent trend with drought intensity.
Observation Chamran under I1 had the smallest chlorophyll decline relative to I4.
Observation Chamran had the highest drought tolerance.
Observation Chamran had the highest yield stability.

Observationobservedoriginal resultnegativemeasured

Claim · model-written summary

Susceptible cultivars showed lower relative water content and grain yield under drought.

Taxon: spring wheatTriticum aestivumt0
Material: Marvi, TD-1 and SKD-1e1
Outcome: relative water contents and grain yielde0
Direction: decreasee0

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“decrease in relative water contents and grain yield”
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“Marvi, TD-1 and SKD-1”
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“spring wheat”
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Title

Morpho-physiological characterization of spring wheat genotypes under drought stress

M. J. Baloch; Jim M. Dunwell; Naqib Ullah Khan; et al. CentAUR (University of Reading) 2013

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Intervention effect Water stress significantly affected stomatal dimensions and conductance.
Intervention effect Water stress significantly affected relative leaf water content.
Intervention effect Water stress significantly affected grain yield.
Intervention effect Water stress had no reported effect on stomatal density.
Association The irrigation by cultivar interaction for grain yield was non-significant.
Observation Anmol, Moomal, Bhittai and Sarsabz were drought tolerant.
Observation Drought tolerant cultivars had smaller stomatal dimensions and lower conductance under stress.
Observation Drought tolerant cultivars had higher relative water content under stress.
Observation Drought tolerant cultivars produced higher grain yield.
Observation Marvi, TD-1 and SKD-1 were characterized as drought susceptible.
Observation Susceptible cultivars showed higher stomatal attributes under drought.

Observationobservedoriginal resultpositivemeasured

Claim · model-written summary

Genotype WB-451 showed the lowest relative water content decrease (2.97%) under drought.

Taxon: common beanPhaseolus vulgarise0
Material: WB-451e1
Outcome: decreasee1
Direction: loweste1
Value: 2.97%e1
Qualifier: in RWCe2

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“The present study reports use of relative water content (RWC), membrane stability index (MSI), DAB (Diaminobenzidine) assay and yield parameters for screening drought tolerance in common bean”
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“while as lowest decrease was observed in case of WB-451 (2.97%)”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 249–312

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“Highest reduction in RWC was recorded for SR-1 (26.11%)”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 193–248

Title

Relative water content, membrane stability index and DAB assay in relation to reduction in yield components and resource remobilisation under water stress in common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.)

Parvaze A. Sofi; Khalid Rehman; Bhat SKUAST JOURNAL OF RESEARCH 2017

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Cj rootstock showed the smallest decrease in leaf relative water content and leaf area under drought.

Taxon: Harumi tangore0
Material: Cje1
Outcome: leaf relative water content and leaf areae1
Direction: smalleste1

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“Harumi tangor plants grafted onto Poncirus trifoliata (Pt), Citrus junos (Cj), and Citrus tangerine (Ct)”
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“The leaf relative water content and leaf area of the three rootstocks decreased with increasing drought stress, with the smallest decrease in Cj”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 322–466

Title

Drought resistance in Harumi tangor seedlings grafted onto different rootstocks

Tiantian Dong; Lijuan Xi; Bo Xiong; et al. Functional Plant Biology 2021. doi:10.1071/fp20242

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Intervention effect Increasing drought stress decreased leaf relative water content and leaf area of Harumi tangor on all three rootstocks.
Intervention effect Increasing drought stress increased relative conductivity and malondialdehyde content in Harumi tangor.
Intervention effect Drought stress increased proline, total soluble sugar and soluble protein in Harumi tangor.
Intervention effect Drought stress increased superoxide dismutase, ascorbate peroxidase and catalase activities in Harumi tangor.
Intervention effect Severe drought stress decreased proline, total soluble sugar and soluble protein in Harumi tangor.
Intervention effect Severe drought stress decreased superoxide dismutase, ascorbate peroxidase and catalase activities in Harumi tangor.
Association Cj rootstock showed the greatest increase in enzyme activity under drought.
Intervention effect Increasing drought stress lowered net photosynthetic rate, stomatal conductance and transpiration rate relative to the control in Harumi tangor.
Intervention effect Increasing drought stress lowered chlorophyll a and b content relative to the control in Harumi tangor.
Intervention effect Increasing drought stress increased intercellular CO2 concentration in Harumi tangor.
Intervention effect Increasing drought stress severity increased initial fluorescence and maximal quantum yield of PSII in Harumi tangor.
Association Initial fluorescence and maximal quantum yield of PSII were approximately equal among rootstocks of Harumi tangor.
Association Drought resistance of grafted H. tangor decreased in the order Cj > Ct > Pt.

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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.”
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“Peanut”
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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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Associationobservedoriginal resultnegativesignificant (as stated)measured

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Relative water content significantly decreased at the most polluted sites.

Taxon: WHEAT AND RICEt0
Outcome: relative water contente0
Direction: decreasee0
Setting: most polluted sitese0

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“Chlorophyll content (up to 0.61mg/g) and relative water content have shown a significant decrease at most polluted sites”
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“WHEAT AND RICE”
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Title

AIR POLLUTION TOLERANCE INDEX OF WHEAT AND RICE IN THE PROXIMITY OF GAS BASED POWER PLANT

Priya Choudhary; Shakeel Ahmad Khan; Ambrina Sardar Khan; et al. Journal of Experimental Biology and Agricultural Sciences 2021. doi:10.18006/2021.9(6).791.804

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Association Crop cell sap was acidic to neutral at polluted sites and neutral to slightly alkaline at less polluted sites.
Association Ascorbic acid content was high at polluted sites.
Association Chlorophyll content significantly decreased at the most polluted sites.
Observation Both crops were categorized as sensitive to air pollution with APTI below 11.
Association APTI correlated positively with pH, chlorophyll and relative water content.
Association APTI correlated negatively with ascorbic acid.

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Leaf aging and declining chlorophyll and absorbance accompanied a decrease in maize Pn.

Taxon: maizeZea mayse0
Outcome: maize Pne0
Qualifier: leaves would age, and the gradual decrease of chlorophyll relative content and Abe0

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“As the growth period progressed, the leaves would age, and the gradual decrease of chlorophyll relative content and Ab led to a gradual decrease in maize Pn.”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 1670–1827

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Optimization of water and fertilizer management on the intercropping system between maize and mung bean to improve photosynthetic characteristics & water use and to increase plant yield

Mengfan Gao; Xinxin Wang; Renqiang Chen; et al. Frontiers in Plant Science 2025. doi:10.3389/fpls.2025.1597198

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Observation Maize leaf area index and chlorophyll content rose then fell with emergence time.
Observation Mung bean leaf area index and chlorophyll content rose then fell with emergence time.
Intervention effect Organic fertilizer raised maize leaf area index by 5.99%–36.70%.
Intervention effect Organic fertilizer raised mung bean leaf area index by 27.43%–28.72%.
Intervention effect Organic fertilizer raised maize chlorophyll content by 2.31%–3.47%.
Intervention effect Organic fertilizer raised mung bean chlorophyll content by 4.59%–4.63%.
Intervention effect Irrigation treatment raised maize leaf area index by 9.73%–33.42% versus I 0.
Intervention effect Irrigation treatment raised mung bean leaf area index by 6.60%–17.39% versus I 0.
Intervention effect Irrigation treatment raised maize chlorophyll content by 2.75%–12.68% versus I 0.
Intervention effect Irrigation treatment raised mung bean chlorophyll content by 4.14%–9.12% versus I 0.
Observation Gas exchange and absorbance first rose and then fell over emergence time in maize and mung bean.
Observation Maize net photosynthetic rate increased by 5.04%–47.12%.
Observation Mung bean net photosynthetic rate increased by 11.29%–26.60%.
Association Maize Pn correlated strongly with chlorophyll content and absorbance.
Observation Three-dimensional Pn curves with chlorophyll content and absorbance were S-shaped.
Association Crop water use efficiency rose then fell with increasing irrigation volume.
Intervention effect Organic fertilizer significantly improved water use efficiency in the intercrop.
Recommendation Authors conclude combined organic fertilizer and irrigation can improve grain output and quality.

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Intervention effect 225

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Association 14

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