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Root water potential fell more gradually with dehydration than leaf water potential.

Organ / stage: Rootse0
Outcome: water potential per unit water contente0
Direction: more gradual decreasee0
Comparator: leavese0

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“Roots exhibited turgor loss at lower values of relative water content and experienced a more gradual decrease in water potential per unit water content during dehydration than did leaves.”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 1006–1193

Title

Leaf and root osmotic adjustment in drought-stressed Quercusalba, Q. macrocarpa, and Q. stellata seedlings

William C. Parker; Stephen G. Pallardy Canadian Journal of Forest Research 1988. doi:10.1139/x88-001

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Intervention effect Drought caused leaf osmotic adjustment in all three oak species, lowering osmotic potentials by 0.25 to 0.60 MPa.
Intervention effect Drought adjusted root osmotic potential in Q. stellata.
Intervention effect Drought increased root tissue elasticity in Q. macrocarpa.
Intervention effect Drought increased root tissue elasticity in Q. alba.
Observation Before drought, Q. stellata had lower osmotic potentials than Q. alba and Q. macrocarpa.
Observation At full saturation, leaf osmotic potential was generally below root osmotic potential.
Observation Leaf and root osmotic potentials at turgor loss were similar.
Observation Roots lost turgor at lower relative water content than leaves.
Observation Roots had greater relative tissue capacitance than leaves.

Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultmeasured

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Mild water deficits did not decrease leaf water potential, turgor potential or RWC.

Taxon: maizeZea mayst0
Treatment: mild plant water deficitse0
Outcome: ψ L , ψ p , or RWCe0
Direction: without decreasese0

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“When mild plant water deficits were imposed, g s was significantly decreased without decreases in either ψ L , ψ p , or RWC”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 1104–1227

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“Maize”
✓ located verbatim in the source · title, characters 132–137

Title

Dependence of Stomatal Conductance on leaf Water Potential, Turgor Potential, and Relative Water Content in Field‐Grown Soybean and Maize¹

J. M. Bennett; T. R. Sinclair; R. C. Muchow; et al. Crop Science 1987. doi:10.2135/cropsci1987.0011183x002700050033x

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Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultnegativemeasured

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Lower substrate osmotic potential increased respiration, proline and H2O2.

Taxon: VignaVignat0
Treatment: Decreasing substrate osmotic potentiale1
Outcome: respiration rate, proline content, H2O2 contente0
Direction: increasee0

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“increase in respiration rate, proline content, H2O2 content”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 176–235

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“Decreasing substrate osmotic potential produced in seedlings ofVigna catjang Endl. (cv. Pusa Barsati) proportional decrease in relative water content and leaf water potential, increase in respiration rate, proline content, H2O2 content, and the activities of indole acetic acid oxidase, ascorbic acid oxidase, peroxidase and glycolate oxidase but decrease in catalase activity and glycolate content. Pretreatment with re…” Show full quote
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 0–759

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“Vigna seedlings”
✓ located verbatim in the source · title, characters 95–110

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Effect of some reducing agents on water stress-induced oxidative and deteriorative processes ofVigna seedlings

S. P. Mukherjee; M. A. Choudhuri Biologia Plantarum 1983. doi:10.1007/bf02903135

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Intervention effect Lower substrate osmotic potential decreased relative water content and leaf water potential.
Intervention effect Lower substrate osmotic potential increased four oxidative enzyme activities.
Intervention effect Lower substrate osmotic potential decreased catalase activity and glycolate content.
Intervention effect Reducing agent pretreatment lessened losses in water status and glycolate content.
Intervention effect Reducing agent pretreatment reduced increases in respiration, proline and H2O2.
Intervention effect Reducing agent pretreatment reduced oxidative enzyme activities except catalase.
Intervention effect Reducing agent pretreatment increased catalase activity.
Intervention effect Reducing agent treatments maintained chlorophyll and protein levels.
Intervention effect Reducing agent treatments decreased tissue permeability.

Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultpositivemeasured

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Reducing agent pretreatment increased catalase activity.

Taxon: VignaVignat0
Treatment: Pretreatment with reducing agents like L-cysteine or reduced glutathione (10−3 M)e1
Outcome: catalase activitye0
Direction: increasede0

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“catalase activity which was increased”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 721–758

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“Decreasing substrate osmotic potential produced in seedlings ofVigna catjang Endl. (cv. Pusa Barsati) proportional decrease in relative water content and leaf water potential, increase in respiration rate, proline content, H2O2 content, and the activities of indole acetic acid oxidase, ascorbic acid oxidase, peroxidase and glycolate oxidase but decrease in catalase activity and glycolate content. Pretreatment with re…” Show full quote
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 0–759

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“Vigna seedlings”
✓ located verbatim in the source · title, characters 95–110

Title

Effect of some reducing agents on water stress-induced oxidative and deteriorative processes ofVigna seedlings

S. P. Mukherjee; M. A. Choudhuri Biologia Plantarum 1983. doi:10.1007/bf02903135

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Intervention effect Lower substrate osmotic potential decreased relative water content and leaf water potential.
Intervention effect Lower substrate osmotic potential increased respiration, proline and H2O2.
Intervention effect Lower substrate osmotic potential increased four oxidative enzyme activities.
Intervention effect Lower substrate osmotic potential decreased catalase activity and glycolate content.
Intervention effect Reducing agent pretreatment lessened losses in water status and glycolate content.
Intervention effect Reducing agent pretreatment reduced increases in respiration, proline and H2O2.
Intervention effect Reducing agent pretreatment reduced oxidative enzyme activities except catalase.
Intervention effect Reducing agent treatments maintained chlorophyll and protein levels.
Intervention effect Reducing agent treatments decreased tissue permeability.

Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultpositivemeasured

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Reducing agent pretreatment reduced increases in respiration, proline and H2O2.

Taxon: VignaVignat0
Treatment: Pretreatment with reducing agents like L-cysteine or reduced glutathione (10−3 M)e1
Outcome: respiration rate, proline content and H2O2 contente0
Direction: reduced the risee0

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“reduced the rise of respiration rate, proline content and H2O2 content”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 582–652

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“Decreasing substrate osmotic potential produced in seedlings ofVigna catjang Endl. (cv. Pusa Barsati) proportional decrease in relative water content and leaf water potential, increase in respiration rate, proline content, H2O2 content, and the activities of indole acetic acid oxidase, ascorbic acid oxidase, peroxidase and glycolate oxidase but decrease in catalase activity and glycolate content. Pretreatment with re…” Show full quote
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 0–759

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“Vigna seedlings”
✓ located verbatim in the source · title, characters 95–110

Title

Effect of some reducing agents on water stress-induced oxidative and deteriorative processes ofVigna seedlings

S. P. Mukherjee; M. A. Choudhuri Biologia Plantarum 1983. doi:10.1007/bf02903135

Other claims from this paper (9)

Intervention effect Lower substrate osmotic potential decreased relative water content and leaf water potential.
Intervention effect Lower substrate osmotic potential increased respiration, proline and H2O2.
Intervention effect Lower substrate osmotic potential increased four oxidative enzyme activities.
Intervention effect Lower substrate osmotic potential decreased catalase activity and glycolate content.
Intervention effect Reducing agent pretreatment lessened losses in water status and glycolate content.
Intervention effect Reducing agent pretreatment reduced oxidative enzyme activities except catalase.
Intervention effect Reducing agent pretreatment increased catalase activity.
Intervention effect Reducing agent treatments maintained chlorophyll and protein levels.
Intervention effect Reducing agent treatments decreased tissue permeability.

Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultpositivemeasured

Claim · model-written summary

Reducing agent pretreatment reduced oxidative enzyme activities except catalase.

Taxon: VignaVignat0
Treatment: Pretreatment with reducing agents like L-cysteine or reduced glutathione (10−3 M)e1
Outcome: the activities of aforementioned oxidative enzymese0
Direction: reducede1

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“the activities of aforementioned oxidative enzymes, except catalase activity which was increased”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 662–758

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“Decreasing substrate osmotic potential produced in seedlings ofVigna catjang Endl. (cv. Pusa Barsati) proportional decrease in relative water content and leaf water potential, increase in respiration rate, proline content, H2O2 content, and the activities of indole acetic acid oxidase, ascorbic acid oxidase, peroxidase and glycolate oxidase but decrease in catalase activity and glycolate content. Pretreatment with re…” Show full quote
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 0–759

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“Vigna seedlings”
✓ located verbatim in the source · title, characters 95–110

Title

Effect of some reducing agents on water stress-induced oxidative and deteriorative processes ofVigna seedlings

S. P. Mukherjee; M. A. Choudhuri Biologia Plantarum 1983. doi:10.1007/bf02903135

Other claims from this paper (9)

Intervention effect Lower substrate osmotic potential decreased relative water content and leaf water potential.
Intervention effect Lower substrate osmotic potential increased respiration, proline and H2O2.
Intervention effect Lower substrate osmotic potential increased four oxidative enzyme activities.
Intervention effect Lower substrate osmotic potential decreased catalase activity and glycolate content.
Intervention effect Reducing agent pretreatment lessened losses in water status and glycolate content.
Intervention effect Reducing agent pretreatment reduced increases in respiration, proline and H2O2.
Intervention effect Reducing agent pretreatment increased catalase activity.
Intervention effect Reducing agent treatments maintained chlorophyll and protein levels.
Intervention effect Reducing agent treatments decreased tissue permeability.

Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultnegativemeasured

Claim · model-written summary

Lower substrate osmotic potential increased four oxidative enzyme activities.

Taxon: VignaVignat0
Treatment: Decreasing substrate osmotic potentiale1
Outcome: the activities of indole acetic acid oxidase, ascorbic acid oxidase, peroxidase and glycolate oxidasee0
Direction: increasee1

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“the activities of indole acetic acid oxidase, ascorbic acid oxidase, peroxidase and glycolate oxidase”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 241–342

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“Decreasing substrate osmotic potential produced in seedlings ofVigna catjang Endl. (cv. Pusa Barsati) proportional decrease in relative water content and leaf water potential, increase in respiration rate, proline content, H2O2 content, and the activities of indole acetic acid oxidase, ascorbic acid oxidase, peroxidase and glycolate oxidase but decrease in catalase activity and glycolate content. Pretreatment with re…” Show full quote
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 0–759

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“Vigna seedlings”
✓ located verbatim in the source · title, characters 95–110

Title

Effect of some reducing agents on water stress-induced oxidative and deteriorative processes ofVigna seedlings

S. P. Mukherjee; M. A. Choudhuri Biologia Plantarum 1983. doi:10.1007/bf02903135

Other claims from this paper (9)

Intervention effect Lower substrate osmotic potential decreased relative water content and leaf water potential.
Intervention effect Lower substrate osmotic potential increased respiration, proline and H2O2.
Intervention effect Lower substrate osmotic potential decreased catalase activity and glycolate content.
Intervention effect Reducing agent pretreatment lessened losses in water status and glycolate content.
Intervention effect Reducing agent pretreatment reduced increases in respiration, proline and H2O2.
Intervention effect Reducing agent pretreatment reduced oxidative enzyme activities except catalase.
Intervention effect Reducing agent pretreatment increased catalase activity.
Intervention effect Reducing agent treatments maintained chlorophyll and protein levels.
Intervention effect Reducing agent treatments decreased tissue permeability.

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Xylem pressure potentials decreased in hardy needles of Pinus sylvestris.

Taxon: Pinus sylvestris L.Pinus sylvestrise0
Organ / stage: hardy needlese2
Outcome: xylem pressure potentialse2
Direction: decreasee2

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“Scotch pine seedlings (Pinus sylvestris L.) were subjected to 6 week photoperiod and thermoperiod treatments to induce different levels of cold acclimation”
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“There was a close correlation between relative water content and water content of woody stems and needles as well as a decrease in xylem pressure potentials of hardy needles, indicating that the reduction in water content was at least partially due to increased water deficit”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 453–728

Title

Changes in Water Relations, Water Flux, and Root Exudate Abscisic Acid Content With Cold Acclimation of Pinus sylvestris L

B Smit-Spinks; BT Swanson; AH Iii Markhart Australian Journal of Plant Physiology 1984. doi:10.1071/pp9840431

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Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultno effectmeasured

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Conditioning treatments generally did not reduce greenhouse eggplant growth relative to controls.

Taxon: eggplantSolanum melongenae1
Treatment: mechanical stress or exogenous abscisic acid (ABA)e1
Outcome: growth responsese0
Direction: did not decreasee0
Comparator: controlse0

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“Treatments generally did not decrease growth responses relative to controls during a 3-day conditioning period in the greenhouse”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 1783–1911

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“Greenhouse-grown eggplant were treated with mechanical stress or exogenous abscisic acid (ABA)”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 1646–1740

Title

EFFECTS OF LIGHT, MECHANICAL STRESSES, EXOGENOUS ABSCISIC ACID, AND/OR OUTDOOR EXPOSURE ON GROWTH, WATER RELATIONS, AND ENDOGENOUS ABSCISIC ACID CONTENT OF EGGPLANT (ACCLIMATION, ABA, HARDENING-OFF, PLANT CONDITIONING)

Joyce G. Latimer Purdue e-Pubs (Purdue University System) 1986

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Intervention effect Supplemental radiation pretreatment improved outdoor eggplant growth relative to greenhouse shade treatments.
Intervention effect UV-B protection increased outdoor eggplant leaf area compared with UV-B exposure.
Intervention effect UV-B protection did not change outdoor eggplant leaf or shoot dry weight.
Intervention effect Greenhouse UV-B reduced eggplant leaf expansion and dry weight gain after five days.
Intervention effect After 12 days, UV-B treated eggplant had no leaf or shoot dry weight difference from controls.
Intervention effect Mechanical stress generally reduced productivity and dimensional growth more in wind-protected settings than in outdoor wind.
Intervention effect Mechanical stress generally reduced soybean productivity and dimensional growth more in wind-protected settings than outdoors in wind.
Intervention effect Conditioning treatments increased specific leaf chlorophyll in greenhouse eggplant.
Intervention effect Mechanical stress had no effect on endogenous ABA levels in eggplant leaves.
Intervention effect Seismic stress decreased eggplant leaf water potential.
Intervention effect Outdoor exposure decreased untreated eggplant relative growth rate and leaf chlorophyll.
Intervention effect Outdoor exposure increased untreated eggplant leaf ABA content.
Intervention effect Outdoor exposure altered untreated eggplant water status.

Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultno effectnot significant (as stated)measured

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At 100% relative humidity, chilling caused no significant fall in leaf soluble protein.

Taxon: peaLathyrus oleraceuse1
Treatment: chilled at 5°C, 100% r.h.e0
Outcome: leaf soluble proteine0
Direction: no significant decreasee0

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“When plants of each species were chilled at 5°C, 100% r.h., water loss was greatly reduced or prevented and there was no significant decrease in leaf soluble protein”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 1177–1342

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“pea (chill-resistant), mung bean (highly chill-sensitive), and tomato and french bean (intermediate chilling-sensitivity)”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 223–344

Title

Changes in the Soluble Protein and Free Amino Acid Content of Chill-Sensitive and Chill-Resistant Plants During Chilling and Hardening Treatments

C. H. ROSINGER; J. M. WILSON; M. W. KERR Journal of Experimental Botany 1984. doi:10.1093/jxb/35.10.1460

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Intervention effect Drought decreased leaf protein levels by 30–40% in the four species.
Intervention effect Drought increased free amino acids by 100–200% except in mung bean.
Intervention effect Four days of chilling reduced mung bean leaf water content by almost 50%.
Intervention effect The same chilling reduced leaf water content by approximately 6–7% in the other three species.
Intervention effect Chilling reduced leaf soluble protein in all four species, especially mung bean.
Intervention effect Mung bean protein fell by over 80% after four days of chilling.
Association Protein loss under chilling coincided with increased amino acids in chill-sensitive species, but the increase could not account for all lost protein.
Intervention effect At 100% relative humidity, chilling greatly reduced or prevented water loss.
Intervention effect Chilling at 100% humidity increased free amino acids in chill-sensitive species.
Intervention effect Drought increased leaf free proline 6–20 fold.
Intervention effect Chilling and hardening caused little change in leaf free proline.

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