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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”
✓ 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 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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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

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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.

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.

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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.

Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultsignificant (as stated)measured

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Water deficit significantly decreased relative water content, stomatal conductance, and osmotic adjustment.

Taxon: SafflowerCarthamus tinctoriust0
Treatment: water deficitse0
Outcome: relative water content (RWC), stomatal conductance (gs), osmotic adjustment (Oadj)e0
Direction: decreasee0

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“Safflower”
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“water deficits led to a significant decrease in relative water content (RWC), stomatal conductance (gs), osmotic adjustment (Oadj)”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 477–607

Title

Physiological Indices for the Selection of Drought-Tolerant Safflower Genotypes for Cultivation in Marginal Areas

Bahman Pasban Eslam; Ali Chenari Bouket; Tomasz Oszako; et al. Applied Sciences 2024. doi:10.3390/app14125106

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Intervention effect Water deficit significantly decreased water potential and agronomic water use efficiency.
Intervention effect Water deficit increased the water stress index.
Association These physiological traits differed significantly among safflower genotypes.
Association Physiological traits were significantly correlated with seed yield.
Association CWSI was strongly related to seed yield under normal and water deficit conditions.
Association WP was strongly related to seed yield under normal and water deficit conditions.
Association WUEa was strongly related to seed yield under normal and water deficit conditions.
Association Capitula number per plant correlated positively with seed yield (r = 0.86).
Association Seeds per capitulum correlated positively with seed yield (r = 0.92).
Observation Golemehr yielded 4676 kg h−1 normally and 3211 kg h−1 under water deficit.
Observation Mec.295 yielded 4961 kg h−1 normally and 3385 kg h−1 under water deficit.
Recommendation CWSI, WP and WUEa can select high yielding drought tolerant safflower genotypes.
Recommendation Golemehr is recommended for cultivation in marginal and arid areas.
Recommendation Mec.295 is recommended for cultivation in marginal and arid areas.

Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultnegativemeasured

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Water deficit decreased relative water content and chlorophyll stability index.

Taxon: Sugar BeetBeta vulgaris subsp. vulgarist0
Treatment: Water deficite1
Outcome: relative water content and chlorophyll stability indexe0
Direction: decreasee0

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“A marked decrease in relative water content and chlorophyll stability index was also observed.”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 1024–1118

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“Sugar Beet”
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“Water deficit hampered plant growth by reducing leaf area and leaf area index.”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 945–1023

Title

Stress Tolerance in Sugar Beet under Various Drought Stress Cycles

Lama Loho; Nandita Jena; Saroj Kumar Mohanty; et al. Indian Journal of Agricultural Research 2025. doi:10.18805/ijare.a-6362

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Intervention effect Water deficit reduced leaf area and leaf area index.
Intervention effect Proline and total soluble carbohydrate content increased relative to control.
Intervention effect Starch content decreased relative to control.
Intervention effect After 15 days of watering under the second stress duration, all parameters recovered against control.
Intervention effect Severe 20 day water withholding reduced yield.
Intervention effect Drought had no significant effect on harvest index.

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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