Claim · model-written summary
Relative water content and membrane stability index decreased with increasing salt concentration.
- Taxon
- Clerodendrum inerme, Leucophyllum frutescens and Acalypha hispida
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Leucophyllum frutescens
Acalypha hispidae1 - Treatment
- salt concentrationse0
- Outcome
- relative water content (RWC) and membrane stability indexe0
- Direction
- decreasee0
Verbatim
e0“relative water content (RWC) and membrane stability index which were found to decrease with increase in salt concentrations”
e1“Clerodendrum inerme, Leucophyllum frutescens and Acalypha hispida”
Title
K. Lakshmaiah; P. Aruna; M. Ganga International Journal of Chemical Studies 2018
Other claims from this paper (13)
- Observation Clerodendrum was tolerant to salinity.
- Observation Leucophyllum was tolerant to salinity.
- Intervention effect Salinity strongly reduced Clerodendrum growth and delayed flowering without toxicity or mortality.
- Intervention effect Acalypha was sensitive to salinity, with 50% mortality.
- Intervention effect Surviving Acalypha had heavy growth reduction under salinity.
- Intervention effect Surviving Acalypha accumulated more NaCl in leaves.
- Observation Clerodendrum had higher chlorophyll content, SPAD 56.73, at high salinity.
- Observation Clerodendrum membrane stability index was 49.9% at high salinity.
- Observation Leucophyllum relative water content was higher, 70.13%, at high salinity.
- Association Leaf potassium concentration decreased with increasing salinity.
- Observation Leucophyllum leaf potassium content was 1.05% at high salt levels.
- Observation Acalypha leaf potassium content was 1.02% at high salt levels.
- Observation Clerodendrum leaf potassium content was 0.94% at high salt levels.