Claim · model-written summary
The lower salt concentration (0.5 per cent NaCl) markedly decreased percentage germination and water content relative to the controls.
- Taxon
- flax, cotton and castor beans
Gossypium hirsutum
Ricinus communis
Linum usitatissimume0 - Treatment
- Salt at the lower concentratione4
- Outcome
- percentage germination and in water contente1
- Direction
- marked decreasee4
- Comparator
- controlse1
Verbatim
e0“Seeds of flax, cotton and castor beans were germinated in two salt concentrations (0.5 and 1.0 per cent NaCl) over a period of 12 d”
e1“The controls showed a continual increase in percentage germination and in water content with time in all three seeds”
e4“Salt at the lower concentration caused a marked decrease in each case, the decrease was even more marked at the higher concentration”
Title
M. E. YOUNIS; M. N. A. HASANEEN; M. M. NEMET-ALLA Annals of Botany 1987. doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.aob.a087453
Other claims from this paper (8)
- Observation In the controls, percentage germination and water content of the three seeds increased continually with time.
- Observation In the controls, dry matter and oil content of the three seeds decreased continually with time.
- Observation In the controls, respiration, glycerol content and lipase activity rose to a maximum and then fell with time.
- Intervention effect The lower salt concentration (0.5 per cent NaCl) markedly decreased dry matter and oil content relative to the controls.
- Intervention effect The higher salt concentration (1.0 per cent NaCl) produced an even more marked decrease than the lower concentration.
- Intervention effect The lower salt concentration significantly increased respiration in flax, unlike the other measured parameters.
- Intervention effect The lower salt concentration significantly increased lipase activity in cotton.
- Intervention effect The lower salt concentration significantly increased lipase activity in castor bean.