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Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultnegativemeasured

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Water stress reduced relative water content more in BN 1133, Dhanya and Swarna.

Taxon: MaizeZea mayst0
Material: BN 1133, Dhanya and Swarnae0
Treatment: Water stresse0
Outcome: RWCe0
Direction: decreasee0

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“Water stress induced decrease in RWC was greater in BN 1133, Dhanya and Swarna”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 1491–1569

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“Maize”
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Title

Water Deficit Stress Tolerance Traits in Maize ( Zea mays L.) and Identification of Tolerant Varieties

Rohini Lama; Dibyendu Chakraborty DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) 2013

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Intervention effect Peroxidase activity fell on day seven in BN 1133, Dhanya, 30V92 and Swarna.
Association Peroxidase activity rose with stress duration in BN 101 and Super 244.
Observation Ascorbate peroxidase and superoxide dismutase activity rose initially and later declined.
Intervention effect Catalase declined at all stress periods in BN 1133, Dhanya, 30V92 and Swarna.
Intervention effect Catalase rose during stress in the other two varieties.
Intervention effect Chlorophyll content declined under drought versus controls in all varieties.
Association Proline and ascorbate content increased with drought intensity in all varieties.
Intervention effect Hydrogen peroxide accumulation and lipid peroxidation rose with stress in four varieties.
Observation The other two varieties showed no increase in hydrogen peroxide accumulation or lipid peroxidation.
Observation BN 1133, Dhanya, 30V92 and Swarna were judged more drought susceptible than KS 244 and BN 101.

Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultnegativesignificant (as stated)measured

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Salt stress decreased maize leaf relative water content, photosynthetic characteristics and catalase activity.

Taxon: maizeZea mayst0
Treatment: salt stress treatmentse0
Outcome: leaf relative water content, photosynthetic characteristics, and catalase activitye0
Direction: decreasee0

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“the leaf relative water content, photosynthetic characteristics, and catalase activity exhibited a significantly decrease of salt stress treatments”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 385–532

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“Maize”
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Title

Maize (Zea mays L.) responses to salt stress in terms of root anatomy, respiration and antioxidative enzyme activity

Dandan Hu; Rongfa Li; Shuting Dong; et al. BMC Plant Biology 2022. doi:10.1186/s12870-022-03972-4

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Intervention effect Salt stress raised superoxide dismutase and peroxidase activities and malondialdehyde content.
Intervention effect Salt stress raised Na+ uptake and translocation relative to controls.
Observation Salt injury was more pronounced in YY7 than JNY658.
Intervention effect Salt stress increased root cortical aerenchyma number in JNY658.
Observation Under salt stress, JNY658 had larger cortical cells and fewer root cortical cell files.
Intervention effect Salt stress lowered total respiration rates in both maize varieties.
Intervention effect Salt stress raised alternate oxidative respiration rates in both varieties.
Intervention effect Salt stress raised root net Na+ and K+ efflux rates in both maize varieties.
Mechanism The authors infer that increased ion efflux reduced root Na+ toxicity and maintained ion balance.
Observation The authors report decreased root-surface Na+ uptake, constrained translocation and reduced leaf Na+ accumulation under salt stress.

Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultnegativemeasured

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Longer irrigation cycles decreased ear leaf area and relative water content.

Taxon: cornZea mays subsp. mayst0
Treatment: increasing irrigation cyclee0
Outcome: ear leaf area and relative water contente0
Direction: decreasee0

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“by increasing irrigation cycle and as a result decreasing water using in four levels of irrigation, traits like forage yield, ear weight, plant height, stem and leaf weight, ear leaf area and relative water content have decrease in treatment according to decrease in water used.”
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“Corn”
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Title

The Effect of Drought Stress on Agrophysiological Traits of Corn (Zea mays L.) Cultivars in Khoy Condition

MirHamid Aboutalebi; Abdollah Hasanzadeh Ghorttapeh; Amir Fayaz Moghadam DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) 2020. doi:10.30495/jcep.2020.671642

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Intervention effect Longer irrigation cycles decreased corn forage yield.
Intervention effect Longer irrigation cycles decreased ear weight, plant height, and stem and leaf weight.
Observation Maxima524 used less water than the other two varieties.
Observation Maxima524 yielded equally to the other two varieties.
Recommendation The authors identify Maxima524 irrigated after 90 mm evaporation as a low-water option with optimal performance.

Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultpositivemeasured

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Exogenous Spd inhibited the fall in leaf relative water content.

Taxon: MaizeZea mayst0
Treatment: Exogenous Spd treatmente0
Outcome: leaf relative water contente0
Direction: inhibited the decreasee0

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“Exogenous Spd treatment not only obviously inhibited the decrease of leaf relative water content”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 670–766

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“Effects of Polyamine on Leaf Physiological and Biochemical Indexes of Maize Seedlings under Osmotic Stress”
✓ located verbatim in the source · title, characters 0–106

Title

Effects of Polyamine on Leaf Physiological and Biochemical Indexes of Maize Seedlings under Osmotic Stress

LI Chao-hai 农业科学与技术(英文版) 2010

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Association After seven days, leaf relative water content declined more in Yedan 13 than Nongda 108.
Association After seven days, soluble protein declined more in Yedan 13 than Nongda 108.
Intervention effect Exogenous Spd raised soluble protein content.
Mechanism The authors infer Spd improves osmotic stress tolerance through higher leaf soluble protein.

Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultnegativesignificant (as stated)measured

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Water deficit significantly decreased chlorophyll content relative to control.

Taxon: Zea mays L.Zea mayse1
Treatment: stressed plante0
Outcome: chlorophyll contente0
Direction: decreasee0
Comparator: controle0

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“The significant decrease of chlorophyll content was obtained in stressed plant than control”
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“leaves of Zea mays L.”
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Title

Alleviation of Water Deficit Stress Effects by Foliar Application of Ascorbic Acid on Zea mays L.

A. Dolatabadian; S. A. M. Modarres Sanavy; M. Sharifi Journal of Agronomy and Crop Science 2009. doi:10.1111/j.1439-037x.2009.00382.x

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Intervention effect Water deficit increased superoxide dismutase, peroxidase and catalase activities in maize leaves.
Intervention effect Water deficit increased polyphenol oxidase activity in maize leaves.
Intervention effect Foliar ascorbic acid reduced stress-induced antioxidant enzyme activities.
Intervention effect Ascorbic acid decreased proline in water-deficit-stressed maize.
Intervention effect Ascorbic acid decreased malondialdehyde in water-deficit-stressed maize.
Observation Ascorbate was oxidized to dehydroascorbate in maize leaves.
Observation Total ascorbate decreased in maize leaves.
Observation Dehydroascorbate increased in maize leaves.
Mechanism Ascorbic acid reduced harmful reactive oxygen species effects and improved water stress resistance.
Recommendation The authors suggested ascorbic acid treatment may improve stressed plants in arid and semi-arid regions.

Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultnegativesignificant (as stated)measured

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Deficit irrigation significantly reduced chlorophyll a, b and relative water content.

Taxon: maizeZea mayst0
Treatment: deficit irrigatione0
Outcome: chlorophyll a, b and relative water contente0
Direction: decreasee0
Comparator: normal irrigatione1

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“deficit irrigation caused a significant decrease in grain yield and other agronomic traits, physiological characteristics (chlorophyll a, b and relative water content)”
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“normal irrigation, 80% of maximum daily crop evapotranspiration”
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“maize”
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Title

Growth analysis, agronomic and physiological characteristics of three hybrid varieties of maize under deficit irrigation conditions

Amir Abbas Rostami Ajirloo; Mohamad Reza Asgharipour; Ahmad Ganbari; et al. Journal of Plant Physiology and Breeding 2019. doi:10.22034/jppb.2019.10097

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Intervention effect Deficit irrigation significantly reduced maize grain yield and agronomic traits.
Intervention effect Deficit irrigation significantly reduced leaf area index, crop growth rate and relative growth rate.
Intervention effect Water deficit increased leaf rolling percentage.
Intervention effect With stronger deficit, SC705 chlorophyll a, b and relative water content fell more than in SC703 and SC704.
Observation At severe stress, SC705 leaf rolling reached 60%.
Observation SC705 had the highest grain yield, 8.51 t/ha, under normal irrigation.
Observation SC705 had the highest biomass, 19.36 t/ha, under normal irrigation.
Observation SC705 had minimum grain yield and biomass at 50% ETc.
Intervention effect Increasing deficit from normal irrigation to 50% ETc significantly reduced SC705 leaf area index, plant growth rate and relative growth rate.
Intervention effect Increasing deficit from normal irrigation to 50% ETc significantly reduced SC705 net photosynthesis rate.
Recommendation The authors recommend preventing water deficit at critical maize growth stages.
Recommendation The authors advise planting SC705 when enough irrigation water is available.
Recommendation The authors consider SC704 suitable for water deficit, especially at 50% ETc.

Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultnegativemeasured

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Combined As+PEG stress decreased relative water content of maize seedlings by 35%.

Taxon: maizeZea mayse1
Treatment: combined As+PEG stresse2
Outcome: relative water content (RWC)e2
Direction: decreasee2
Value: 35 %e2

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“the relative growth rate (RGR) of maize seedlings under As and drought stress was reduced by 38 % and 50 %, respectively”
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“with a 35 % decrease in relative water content (RWC) under combined As+PEG stress”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 758–839

Title

An effective sustainable strategy: Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria (PGPR), Bacillus atrophaeus, in maize plants against challenging environments

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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Intervention effect Arsenic stress reduced the relative growth rate of maize seedlings by 38%.
Intervention effect Drought stress reduced the relative growth rate of maize seedlings by 50%.
Intervention effect Drought and As stress decreased gas exchange parameters and maximum quantum yield of PSII in maize.
Intervention effect Bacterial inoculation increased photosynthetic performance of maize under stress.
Intervention effect H 2 O 2 content of maize seedlings increased by 65.8% under As+PEG conditions.
Observation H 2 O 2 accumulation in maize was visualized and confirmed by confocal microscopy.
Intervention effect Bacillus atrophaeus priming elevated SOD, CAT, APX and GPX activities in maize.
Mechanism Bacillus atrophaeus priming is asserted to maintain the cellular redox state of maize by inducing the AsA-GSH cycle.
Intervention effect B. atrophaeus inoculation increased the content of micro- and macro-nutrients such as Ca, K, Mg and Fe in maize.
Intervention effect B. atrophaeus significantly reduced arsenic uptake in the roots of maize.
Intervention effect Seed inoculation with B. atrophaeus reduced oxidative damage in maize.
Intervention effect Seed inoculation with B. atrophaeus increased antioxidant system activity in maize seedlings.

Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultpositivemeasured

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Brassinolide decreased MDA content by 24% relative to distilled water-sprayed plants.

Taxon: maizeZea mayst0
Treatment: foliar BRe1
Outcome: MDA contente2
Direction: decreasee2
Value: 24%e2
Comparator: distilled water-sprayed plantse5

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“Brassinolide Alleviates Maize Silk Growth Under Water Deficit”
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“then applied foliar BR at concentrations”
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“with distilled water-sprayed plants serving as controls”
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“a 24% decrease in MDA content”
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Title

Brassinolide Alleviates Maize Silk Growth Under Water Deficit by Reprogramming Sugar Metabolism and Enhancing Antioxidant Defense

Jinrong Xu; Zhicheng Cheng; Li Dai; et al. Plants 2026. doi:10.3390/plants15010139

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Intervention effect Foliar brassinolide increased silk length by 2.9-fold compared with the stress control.
Intervention effect Brassinolide partially restored silk elongation under water-deficit stress at 0.1 and 0.5.
Intervention effect The highest brassinolide concentration suppressed silk elongation under water-deficit stress.
Intervention effect Brassinolide elevated POD activity by 31–77% relative to distilled water-sprayed plants.
Intervention effect Brassinolide elevated SOD activity by 12–46% relative to distilled water-sprayed plants.
Intervention effect Brassinolide elevated CAT activity by 20–33% relative to distilled water-sprayed plants.
Intervention effect Brassinolide raised proline by 25–76% relative to distilled water-sprayed plants.
Intervention effect Brassinolide reduced O2− and H2O2 levels by 36–67% relative to distilled water-sprayed plants.
Intervention effect Brassinolide reduced sucrose phosphate synthase (SPS) activity.
Intervention effect Brassinolide increased sucrose synthase (SS-I) and vacuolar invertase (VIN) activities.
Mechanism Brassinolide may shift carbon partitioning from sucrose toward hexoses.
Observation Genome-wide RNA-seq identified 6171 upregulated genes.
Observation Genome-wide RNA-seq identified 3295 downregulated genes.
Observation Gene expression was significantly enriched in 20 pathways, including starch/sucrose metabolism, glycolysis/gluconeogenesis and phenylpropanoid biosynthesis.
Intervention effect Brassinolide upregulated sucrose invertase (INV) expression by 2.4- to 8.7-fold compared with the distilled water-sprayed control.
Intervention effect Brassinolide upregulated hexokinase (HK) expression by 2.3- to 4.0-fold compared with the distilled water-sprayed control.
Mechanism Brassinolide mitigates drought-induced silk growth arrest by orchestrating antioxidant defense, osmotic regulation and metabolic reprogramming.

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Reducing ZmHSF10 expression in maize (VIGS-silenced) decreased chlorophyll content, cell membrane stability and relative water content in leaves under high temperature stress.

Taxon: maizeZea mayse0
Organ / stage: leavese0
Treatment: Reducing the expression level of ZmHSF10e0
Gene: ZmHSF10e0
Outcome: chlorophyll content, poor cell membrane stability, and lower relative water contente0
Direction: decreasee0

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“Reducing the expression level of ZmHSF10 leads to a decrease in chlorophyll content, poor cell membrane stability, and lower relative water content in maize leaves under high temperature stress”
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Title

Heat stress response factor ZmHSF10 positively regulates heat tolerance in maize

Liru Cao; Guo Li; Dongling Zhang; et al. BMC Plant Biology 2025. doi:10.1186/s12870-025-07400-1

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Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultmixedmeasured

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Relative water content declined less in the sensitive maize genotype under moderate drought.

Taxon: maize (Zea mays L.)Zea mayse0
Material: sensitive genotypee1
Treatment: moderate drought conditionse0
Outcome: relative water contente1
Direction: slighter decreasee1

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“two maize (Zea mays L.) genotypes with contrasting sensitivity to dehydration were subjected to moderate drought conditions”
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“a slighter decrease in the relative water content in the sensitive genotype”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 359–434

Title

The Physiology and Proteomics of Drought Tolerance in Maize: Early Stomatal Closure as a Cause of Lower Tolerance to Short-Term Dehydration?

Monika Benešová; Dana Holá; Lukáš Fischer; et al. PLoS ONE 2012. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0038017

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