Claim · model-written summary
Combined As+PEG stress decreased relative water content of maize seedlings by 35%.
- Treatment
- combined As+PEG stresse2
- Outcome
- relative water content (RWC)e2
- Direction
- decreasee2
- Value
- 35 %e2
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Verbatim
e1“the relative growth rate (RGR) of maize seedlings under As and drought stress was reduced by 38 % and 50 %, respectively”
e2“with a 35 % decrease in relative water content (RWC) under combined As+PEG stress”
Title
Melike Balci; Busra Arikan-Abdulveli; Evren Yildiztugay; et al. Journal of environmental chemical engineering 2025. doi:10.1016/j.jece.2025.116778
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