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Drought is hypothesized to decrease insecticide uptake by crop plants.

Taxon: crop plantse0
Treatment: droughte0
Outcome: uptakee0
Direction: decreasee0

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“We hypothesize that more pronounced drought will decrease uptake and increase the magnitude of nonuniform translocation of systemic insecticides within treated crop plants”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 659–830

Title

Does Drought Increase the Risk of Insects Developing Behavioral Resistance to Systemic Insecticides?

Haleh Khodaverdi; Trevor Fowles; Emily Bick; et al. Journal of Economic Entomology 2016. doi:10.1093/jee/tow188

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Inferior grain quality varieties showed greater changes than superior ones.

Taxon: riceOryza sativat0
Material: inferior grain quality varietiese0
Outcome: magnitude of the increase or decreasee0
Direction: greatere0
Comparator: superior onese0

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“inferior grain quality varieties showed a greater magnitude of the increase or decrease than the superior ones.”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 479–590

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“Rice”
✓ located verbatim in the source · title, characters 123–127

Title

Effect of Temperature at Grain Filling Stage on Activities of Key Enzymes Related to Starch Synthesis and Grain Quality of Rice

Jin Jin; Zheng-xun; Qian Qian; et al. 水稻科学：英文版 2005

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Intervention effect High temperature increased rice grain protein content.
Intervention effect High temperature decreased rice grain amylose content.
Intervention effect High temperature decreased rice taste meter value.
Association Rapid visco analyser profiles reacted differently to temperature among rice varieties.
Observation AGPP activity rose to a peak then declined during grain filling.
Observation SSS activity rose to a peak then declined during grain filling.
Observation SBE activity rose to a peak then declined during grain filling.
Association Enzyme activities and timing of their maxima differed among varieties at the same grain filling stage.
Association AGPP activity was insensitive to environmental temperature.
Association SSS activity was insensitive to environmental temperature.
Association SBE activity declined at excessively high or low temperature.

Observationobservedoriginal resultpositivemeasured

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Maize genetic variance did not decline from 1975 to 2004.

Taxon: maizeZea mayse1
Outcome: magnitude of genetic variancee0
Direction: neither a decreasee0

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“There was neither a decrease in the magnitude of genetic variance nor a change in the predominance of variance due to GCA over variance due to SCA.”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 4290–4437

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“the maize program of the University of Hohenheim”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 3978–4026

Title

Theoretical and experimental investigations on the exploitation of heterosis in hybrid breeding

Sandra E. Fischer University writing server of the University of Hohenheim (Universität Hohenheim) 2009

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Observation Triticale had low heterosis.
Association Between-group factorials had a higher GCA-to-SCA variance ratio than within-group designs.
Association Genetically distinct populations showed a more favorable GCA-to-SCA ratio than less distinct populations.
Method / resource The enumeration algorithm improved all criteria for identifying heterotic groups.
Observation F1 performance was the leading criterion for developing and enriching heterotic groups.
Observation Heterosis was the next most important criterion for developing and enriching heterotic groups.
Observation US exotic maize germplasm had higher genetic diversity than Central European groups.
Recommendation The authors recommend introgressing non-Stiff Stalk germplasm into the Flint group.
Recommendation The authors recommend introgressing Stiff Stalk germplasm into the Dent group.
Observation East European rye OPVs had higher genetic diversity than Central European groups.
Observation The Carsten rye group had a narrow genetic base.
Recommendation The authors recommend the Carsten group as the primary target for genetic broadening.
Association All five rye OPVs were genetically closer to Petkus than Carsten.
Observation Two rye OPVs were good candidates for introgression into Petkus.
Observation One rye OPV was a good candidate for introgression into Carsten.
Recommendation The authors suggest using selected clones of these rye populations for introgression.
Observation Maize GCA variance remained predominant over SCA variance.
Recommendation The authors recommend continually enriching heterotic groups through germplasm introgression.

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Ammonium sulfate produced a larger soil pH decrease than urea.

Taxon: RiceOryza sativat0
Treatment: ammonium sulfatee0
Outcome: pH decreasee0
Direction: greatere0
Comparator: ureae0

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“the magnitude of the pH decrease was greater by ammonium sulfate than by urea”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 589–666

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“Influence of Urea and Ammonium Sulfate on Soil Acidity Indices in Lowland Rice Production”
✓ located verbatim in the source · title, characters 0–89

Title

Influence of Urea and Ammonium Sulfate on Soil Acidity Indices in Lowland Rice Production

N. K. Fageria; A. B. dos Santos; M. F. Moraes Communications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis 2010. doi:10.1080/00103624.2010.485237

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Intervention effect Urea and ammonium sulfate fertilization significantly influenced rice grain yield.
Intervention effect Soil pH decreased linearly under ammonium sulfate and urea application.
Intervention effect Higher nitrogen rates decreased soil calcium and magnesium saturations relative to low rates.
Association Increasing nitrogen rates increased soil aluminum and acidity saturation.
Intervention effect Ammonium sulfate raised the soil acidity indices more than urea.
Association Rice grain yield was negatively associated with soil pH and Ca and Mg saturation.
Association Rice grain yield was negatively associated with soil base saturation.
Association Rice grain yield was positively associated with aluminum and acidity saturation.
Observation The authors interpret rice as tolerant of soil acidity.

Associationobservedoriginal resultnegativemeasured

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Hybridity had a negative impact on triploid heterosis (-12.75%), smaller in magnitude than the parent-of-origin effect.

Taxon: LoquatEriobotrya japonicat0
Treatment: hybriditye0
Outcome: triploid heterosise0
Direction: decreaseinferrede0
Value: −12.75%e0

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“Triploid Loquat”
✓ located verbatim in the source · title, characters 73–88

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“POE as the main positive driver of triploid heterosis (+10.37% for plant height), far exceeding the negative impacts of hybridity (−12.75%) and ploidy level (−20.87%)”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 1065–1231

Title

Parent-of-Origin Effect Predominantly Drives Seedling Vigor Heterosis in Triploid Loquat

Chi Zhang; Ting Yuan; Jun Liang; et al. Horticulturae 2025. doi:10.3390/horticulturae11101175

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Scab infestation comparably decreased kernel mass and volume.

Taxon: winter wheatTriticum aestivumt0
Outcome: mass and volumee0
Direction: relative decreasee0

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“comparable magnitude of relative decrease (due to infestation) of two features (mass and volume)”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 372–468

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“winter wheat”
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Title

Evaluation of single-kernel density of scab-damaged winter wheat

A. Grabowski; R. Siuda; L. Lenc; et al. International Agrophysics 2012. doi:10.2478/v10247-012-0019-5

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Intervention effect Scab damaged wheat grain did not have lower mean single kernel density than healthy grain.
Method / resource Liquid pycnometry may overestimate scabby kernel volume through surface tension.
Method / resource Consequently, scabby kernel density can be significantly underestimated.

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Ploidy level had a negative impact on triploid heterosis (-20.87%), smaller in magnitude than the parent-of-origin effect.

Taxon: LoquatEriobotrya japonicat0
Treatment: ploidy levele0
Outcome: triploid heterosise0
Direction: decreaseinferrede0
Value: −20.87%e0

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“Triploid Loquat”
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“POE as the main positive driver of triploid heterosis (+10.37% for plant height), far exceeding the negative impacts of hybridity (−12.75%) and ploidy level (−20.87%)”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 1065–1231

Title

Parent-of-Origin Effect Predominantly Drives Seedling Vigor Heterosis in Triploid Loquat

Chi Zhang; Ting Yuan; Jun Liang; et al. Horticulturae 2025. doi:10.3390/horticulturae11101175

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Reduced VPD caused a decrease in canopy transpiration greater than the decrease in fog evaporation.

Taxon: tomato plantSolanum lycopersicume1
Outcome: decrease in canopy transpiratione0
Value: 70-94%e0
Qualifier: decrease in VPDe0
Comparator: fog evaporation ratee0

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“The decrease in canopy transpiration resulted from the decrease in VPD, and was at a magnitude greater than that of the fog evaporation rate under similar experimental conditions with relatively high humidity in the range of 70-94%”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 2145–2376

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“The tomato plant canopy transpiration rate”
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Title

Controlled Environment Agriculture for Effective Plant Production Systems in a Semiarid Greenhouse

Masahisa ISHII; Sadanori SASE; Hideki MORIYAMA; et al. Japan Agricultural Research Quarterly JARQ 2016. doi:10.6090/jarq.50.101

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Intervention effect Fog cooling used less water than pad-and-fan cooling.
Intervention effect Air relative humidity was slightly higher with fog cooling than pad-and-fan cooling.
Association Simulated greenhouse air relative humidity declined with increasing ventilation rate.
Association Water use for fog cooling increased with ventilation rate.
Method / resource The control algorithm could maintain humidity and temperature in a desirable range while reducing fog water use.
Association Tomato canopy transpiration increased linearly with vapor pressure deficit.
Intervention effect Lower ventilation decreased total greenhouse water use by 13%.
Intervention effect Lower ventilation increased greenhouse relative humidity.

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Drought is hypothesized to increase nonuniform insecticide translocation.

Taxon: crop plantse0
Treatment: droughte0
Outcome: magnitude of nonuniform translocation of systemic insecticidese0
Direction: increasee0

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“We hypothesize that more pronounced drought will decrease uptake and increase the magnitude of nonuniform translocation of systemic insecticides within treated crop plants”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 659–830

Title

Does Drought Increase the Risk of Insects Developing Behavioral Resistance to Systemic Insecticides?

Haleh Khodaverdi; Trevor Fowles; Emily Bick; et al. Journal of Economic Entomology 2016. doi:10.1093/jee/tow188

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Carbon stocks decreased in cocoa farms relative to natural forest.

Taxon: cocoaTheobroma cacaoe0
Outcome: carbon stockse0
Direction: decreasee0
Comparator: natural foreste0
Setting: cocoa farmse0

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“The magnitude of carbon stocks decrease in the cocoa farms compared to the natural forest.”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 1078–1168

Title

Effect of cocoa farming intensification on biodiversity and ecosystem properties in southern Ghana

A. Tetteh Daniel; Asase Alex; Ofori-Frimpong Kwesi; et al. Journal of Ecology and the Natural Environment 2018. doi:10.5897/jene2017.0673

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