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Increased light interception under nitrogen was partially offset by reduced dry weight partitioning to tubers.

Taxon: potatoSolanum tuberosumt0
Outcome: Increases in light interceptione0
Qualifier: decrease in the proportion of the dry weight partitioned to the tuberse0

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“Increases in light interception, in response to nitrogen, were partially offset by a concomitant decrease in the proportion of the dry weight partitioned to the tubers”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 1207–1374

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“potato”
✓ located verbatim in the source · title, characters 52–58

Title

Growth, nitrogen uptake and partitioning within the potato (Solatium tuberosum L.) crop, in relation to nitrogen application

P. Millard; B. Marshall The Journal of Agricultural Science 1986. doi:10.1017/s0021859600087220

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Intervention effect Fertilizer increased potato nitrogen uptake.
Observation At high nitrogen rates, uptake exceeded immediate growth requirements.
Observation Extra nitrogen initially occurred mainly as soluble protein in leaves.
Observation Extra nitrogen initially occurred as nitrate in the stem.
Observation Reduced nitrogen in tubers became a large component during tuber bulking.
Intervention effect 25 g N/m 2 shifted nitrogen partitioning toward foliage relative to tubers.
Observation Maximum final tuber yield occurred at 15 g N/m 2 in both years.
Mechanism Nitrogen-related yield increases were due to increased radiation interception.
Intervention effect Canopy photosynthetic efficiency was little affected.
Intervention effect Tuber dry matter content was little affected.
Association Nitrogen application effects on tuber yield depended on harvest date.

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The authors attribute the rise in transpirational moisture consumption for dry weight formation from the first to the second hay crop to a decrease in bioavailability of moisture in that period.

Taxon: bluegrass herbse1
Outcome: transpirational consumption of moisturee0
Qualifier: decrease in bioavailability of moisturee0

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“The increase in transpirational consumption of moisture in dry weight formation during the period from the first hay crop to the second was caused by decrease in bioavailability of moisture during this period”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 1836–2044

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“The transpiration coefficient for bluegrass herbs which are grown in river flood plains is established for the first time”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 1315–1436

Title

Influences of technologies of cultivation of perennial bluegrass herbs on their transpiration in the conditions of water meadows

S. M. Pakshina; N. M. Belous; E. V. Smolsky; et al. Biosystems Diversity 2017. doi:10.15421/011702

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Onium compounds and proline increased during salt and water stress, mainly with reduced fresh to dry weight ratio.

Taxon: Melanthera bifloraWollastonia biflorat0
Treatment: salt and water stresse0
Outcome: Onium (quaternary ammonium and/or tertiary sulphonium) compounds and proline increasede0
Qualifier: decrease in the fresh weight/dry weight ratio of tissuee0

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“Onium (quaternary ammonium and/or tertiary sulphonium) compounds and proline increased during salt and water stress due mainly to a decrease in the fresh weight/dry weight ratio of tissue”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 851–1038

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“Melanthera biflora”
✓ located verbatim in the source · title, characters 11–29

Title

Response ofMelanthera biflorato Salinity and Water Stress

R. STOREY; J. GORHAM; M. G. PITMAN; et al. Journal of Experimental Botany 1993. doi:10.1093/jxb/44.10.1551

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Intervention effect Growth was inhibited by salt above 50 mol m−3.
Observation Plants survived salinity approaching seawater at 400 mol m−3.
Observation Shoot potassium concentrations were maintained up to 400 mol m−3 salinity.
Association Sodium and chloride accumulation followed external osmotic pressure.
Mechanism Water-stressed leaf sap osmotic pressure rose mainly as the fresh to dry weight ratio fell.
Observation 3-DMSP was identified as the main onium compound.
Observation Glycinebetaine was absent in some accessions.
Mechanism Part of the salt-stress increase came from increased onium compound accumulation.
Intervention effect Low sulphur supply inhibited the salt-induced increase in 3-DMSP.
Observation Low sulphur supply brought no compensatory proline increase.

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Reduced dry weight was not explained by reduced bract or floret numbers or delayed bud development.

Taxon: Chrysanthemum morifoliumChrysanthemum ×morifoliumt0
Outcome: dry weighte0
Qualifier: not due to a decrease in the number of bracts or florets or to a lag in developmente0

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“The reduction in dry weight was not due to a decrease in the number of bracts or florets or to a lag in development of the covered buds.”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 345–481

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“Chrysanthemum morifolium”
✓ located verbatim in the source · title, characters 29–53

Title

Inflorescence Development in Chrysanthemum morifolium as a Function of Light on the Inflorescence

J. D. STEFFEN; K. E. COCKSHULL; G. NAVISSANO; et al. Annals of Botany 1988. doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.aob.a087572

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Intervention effect Covered developing buds did not atrophy.
Intervention effect Covered buds had lower dry weight at 21, 28, 35 and 42 days of short days.
Mechanism Lower bud dry weight primarily resulted from reduced bract dry weight.
Intervention effect At 49 days covered and uncovered bud weights did not differ significantly.
Intervention effect Covered bracts still had reduced weight at 49 days.
Intervention effect Uncovered buds fixed about forty times more labelled carbon dioxide at 28 days.
Intervention effect Covered and uncovered buds had the same sink intensity and relative specific activity.
Intervention effect Covering the first bract increased sink intensity and relative specific activity, attributed to its own photosynthesis.

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Delaying sowing reduced dry matter remobilization, mainly through lower stem weight.

Taxon: wheatTriticum aestivumt0
Treatment: delay in sowing datee0
Outcome: dry matter remobilizatione0
Direction: decreasede0
Qualifier: a decrease in stem weighte0

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“wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)”
✓ located verbatim in the source · title, characters 46–74

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“With a delay in sowing date, and/or increase in N - P - K levels, the amount of dry matter remobilization decreased, mainly due to a decrease in stem weight.”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 1935–2092

Title

Stem reserve accumulation and mobilization in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) as affected by sowing date and N – P – K levels under Mediterranean conditions

AMIR AYNEHBAND; MARYAM VALIPOOR; ESFANDIAR FATEH TURKISH JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY 2011. doi:10.3906/tar-0911-407

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Observation Fertilizer levels had similar ordering for pre- and post-anthesis dry matter accumulation.
Intervention effect Fertilized treatments averaged 2% higher dry matter translocation than control.
Intervention effect Sowing date affected pre-anthesis dry matter contribution to reproductive organs more than N-P-K levels.
Intervention effect Early sowing gave the highest mobilized dry matter.
Intervention effect Early sowing gave the highest dry matter in stem internodes.
Intervention effect Early sowing had the lowest mobilization efficiency.
Intervention effect The lowest N-P-K application had the highest mobilization efficiency across stem internodes.
Intervention effect Mobilized dry matter decreased as fertilizer application increased, except in peduncle internodes with early sowing.
Mechanism Increasing N-P-K levels reduced dry matter remobilization, mainly through lower stem weight.

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Siratro changes were attributed to lower turgid water to dry weight ratio, rather than solute accumulation.

Taxon: siratroe1
Outcome: These changese0
Qualifier: marked decrease in the ratio of turgid water content to dry weight of the leaf tissuee0

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“These changes could be explained by the marked decrease in the ratio of turgid water content to dry weight of the leaf tissue rather than by accumulation of solutes.”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 1281–1446

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“stressed siratro leaves”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 1171–1194

Title

Adaptation to Water Stress of the Leaf Water Relations of Four Tropical Forage Species

JR Wilson; MM Ludlow; MJ Fisher; et al. Australian Journal of Plant Physiology 1980. doi:10.1071/pp9800207

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Increasing N-P-K levels reduced dry matter remobilization, mainly through lower stem weight.

Taxon: wheatTriticum aestivumt0
Treatment: increase in N - P - K levelse0
Outcome: dry matter remobilizatione0
Direction: decreasede0
Qualifier: a decrease in stem weighte0

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“wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)”
✓ located verbatim in the source · title, characters 46–74

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“With a delay in sowing date, and/or increase in N - P - K levels, the amount of dry matter remobilization decreased, mainly due to a decrease in stem weight.”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 1935–2092

Title

Stem reserve accumulation and mobilization in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) as affected by sowing date and N – P – K levels under Mediterranean conditions

AMIR AYNEHBAND; MARYAM VALIPOOR; ESFANDIAR FATEH TURKISH JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY 2011. doi:10.3906/tar-0911-407

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Observation Fertilizer levels had similar ordering for pre- and post-anthesis dry matter accumulation.
Intervention effect Fertilized treatments averaged 2% higher dry matter translocation than control.
Intervention effect Sowing date affected pre-anthesis dry matter contribution to reproductive organs more than N-P-K levels.
Intervention effect Early sowing gave the highest mobilized dry matter.
Intervention effect Early sowing gave the highest dry matter in stem internodes.
Intervention effect Early sowing had the lowest mobilization efficiency.
Intervention effect The lowest N-P-K application had the highest mobilization efficiency across stem internodes.
Intervention effect Mobilized dry matter decreased as fertilizer application increased, except in peduncle internodes with early sowing.
Mechanism Delaying sowing reduced dry matter remobilization, mainly through lower stem weight.

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Excess leaf nitrogen or top dry weight decreased the percentage of ripened grains and hence yield.

Taxon: Lowland Ricet0
Outcome: grain yielde0
Direction: decreasee0
Qualifier: decrease of the percentage of ripened grainse0

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“When the nitrogen content in leaf blades or the dry weight of the top exceeded their optimum, the decrease of the grain yield was brought about by the decrease of the percentage of ripened grains.”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 1485–1681

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“Lowland Rice”
✓ located verbatim in the source · title, characters 105–117

Title

Analysis of Yield-Determining Process and Its Application to Yield-Prediction and Culture Improvement of Lowland Rice CXX. Effects of the nitrogen restriction on the grain yield judged from the growth amount, the leaf color and the percentage of stained length of leaf sheath

Akio MATSUZAKI; Seizo MATSUSHIMA; Toyoo TOMITA Japanese Journal of Crop Science 1974. doi:10.1626/jcs.43.167

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Association Two leaf nitrogen and top weight combinations brought the highest yield.
Association The second leaf nitrogen and top weight combination also brought highest yield.
Association Yield decreased when nitrogen content and top weight were outside optimal values.
Association The leaf color ratio and tiller combination produced maximum grain yield.
Mechanism Lodging attributed to fifth internode length caused reduced grain ripening.
Recommendation Authors recommended a leaf color ratio of 0.05∼0.08 or leaf blade nitrogen of 2.2∼2.6%.
Recommendation Authors recommended 500∼700 tillers per square meter or top dry weight of 500∼600 g/m2.
Recommendation Authors recommended fifth internode length below 4 cm.

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The authors explain the yield increase through fewer and lighter O. foetida attachments and a slight reduction in Najeh shoot dry weight.

Taxon: faba beanVicia fabae2
Interactor: O. foetidaOrobanche foetidae0parasite
Outcome: Seed yielde1
Qualifier: reduced number and dry weight of O. foetida attachments and a slight decrease in shoot dry weighte0

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“This can be explained by the reduced number and dry weight of O. foetida attachments and a slight decrease in shoot dry weight of the resistant cultivar.”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 985–1138

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“Seed yield increased significantly on late sowing especially for the resistant Najeh cultivar”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 815–908

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“faba bean cultivars”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 342–361

Title

Effect of sowing date onOrobanche foetidainfection and seed yield of resistant and susceptible faba bean cultivars

Z. Abbes; F. Sellami; M. Amri; et al. Acta Phytopathologica et Entomologica Hungarica 2010. doi:10.1556/aphyt.45.2010.2.3

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Intervention effect Late sowing significantly reduced emerged O. foetida shoot number in resistant Najeh.
Intervention effect Late sowing significantly reduced emerged O. foetida shoot dry weight in Najeh.
Intervention effect Late sowing did not significantly reduce emerged O. foetida shoots in Badi.
Intervention effect December sowing reduced underground tubercle number in both cultivars.
Observation With December sowing, attachments emerged on Badi but not Najeh, indicating delayed parasite growth on Najeh.
Intervention effect Late sowing significantly increased faba bean seed yield.
Observation Najeh produced much higher seed yield than Badi.
Recommendation The authors recommend combining resistance and late sowing to control O. foetida in Tunisia.

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Authors attributed the lower shoot/root dry weight ratio at low nitrate to greater carbohydrate storage from elevated root SST activity.

Taxon: chicoryCichorium intybust0
Gene: SSTe0
Outcome: shoot/root dry weight ratioe0
Direction: decreasee0
Qualifier: increased utilization of carbohydrates for storagee0

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“chicory (Cichorium intybus)”
✓ located verbatim in the source · title, characters 115–142

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“the observed decrease in shoot/root dry weight ratio at low NO3- supply is caused by increased utilization of carbohydrates for storage due to elevated root SST activity”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 1356–1525

Title

Stage of development is an important determinant in the effect of nitrate on photoassimilate (¹³C) partitioning in chicory (Cichorium intybus)

R. Améziane; E. Deléens; G. Noctor; et al. Journal of Experimental Botany 1997. doi:10.1093/jxb/48.1.25

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Intervention effect Low nitrate decreased carbon assimilation by 30–35% in young and mature chicory.
Intervention effect In young plants, nitrate supply did not modify the shoot/root carbon ratio or root enzyme activities.
Intervention effect In mature plants, low nitrate decreased the shoot/root carbon ratio from 0.6 to 0.2.
Intervention effect The net carbon flux from shoot to root remained unchanged in mature plants under low nitrate.
Observation Mature plants had greater SST activity than young plants at both nitrate levels.
Intervention effect Mature low nitrate plants had twice the SST activity of mature high nitrate plants.

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