Claim · model-written summary
Water deficit significantly decreased leaf relative water content and leaf water potential in all cultivars.
- Taxon
- Medicago sativa
Medicago sativat0 - Treatment
- water deficite1
- Outcome
- leaf relative water content and leaf water potentiale0
- Direction
- decreasee0
Not reportedComparator
Verbatim
t0“Medicago sativa”
e0“led to a significant decrease in leaf relative water content and leaf water potential”
e1“In all cultivars, water deficit stress reduced the whole plant growth”
Title
Inès Slama AFRICAN JOURNAL OF BIOTECHNOLOGY 2011. doi:10.5897/ajb11.1202
Other claims from this paper (9)
- Intervention effect Water deficit reduced whole plant growth in all cultivars.
- Intervention effect Water deficit increased root/shoot DW ratio in all cultivars.
- Intervention effect Proline and soluble sugar concentrations increased significantly under water deficit in most cultivars.
- Observation Tamantit showed the best tolerance to water deficit.
- Observation Under stress, Tamantit produced more biomass than other cultivars.
- Observation Tamantit had preferential root development.
- Observation Tamantit had better ability to accumulate proline and soluble sugars.
- Observation Tamantit protected its photosynthetic apparatus against oxidative stress associated with water deficit.
- Observation Ecotipo Siciliano was the most sensitive cultivar.