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Organism: Zea mays ✕

Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultpositivemeasured

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Mulch and more frequent irrigation tended to decrease leaf diffusive resistance.

Taxon: maizeZea mayst0
Treatment: Mulch and increase in irrigation frequencye0
Outcome: leaf diffusive resistancee0
Direction: decreasede0

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“Mulch and increase in irrigation frequency tended to increase in relative water content and transpiration rate while decreased leaf diffusive resistance”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 816–968

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“maize (Zea mays L.)”
✓ located verbatim in the source · title, characters 78–97

Title

Effect of straw mulching and irrigation on physiological activities, yield of maize (Zea mays L.) and soil physical properties under available soil moisture depletion conditions in Mollisols

MANEESH BHATT Annals of Plant and Soil Research 2022. doi:10.47815/apsr.2022.10176

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Intervention effect Mulch raised soil temperature at 15 cm by 0.6–9.8 °C.
Intervention effect Irrigation at 20% DASM raised soil temperature by 0.7–1.2 °C.
Intervention effect Mulch lowered bulk density by 1.43–3.59%.
Intervention effect Mulch increased saturated hydraulic conductivity by 3.8–41.0%.
Intervention effect Mulch increased mean weight diameter by 6.0–20.0%.
Intervention effect Irrigation at less soil-moisture depletion favored soil physical properties.
Intervention effect Mulch and more frequent irrigation tended to increase relative water content and transpiration rate.
Intervention effect Leaf temperature showed no noticeable differences under mulch and irrigation.
Intervention effect Green gram straw mulch produced 2.6–14.2% higher grain yield.
Intervention effect Irrigation at 20% DASM produced 1.3–9.2% higher grain yield.
Recommendation The authors recommend green gram straw mulch at 5 t ha-1 with irrigation at 20% DASM for higher maize yield in Mollisols.

Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultpositivesignificant (as stated)measured

Claim · model-written summary

Vermicompost increased maize yield and leaf traits under normal and deficit irrigation.

Taxon: maizeZea mayst0
Treatment: vermicomposte0
Outcome: grain yield, Leaf Area Index, leaf chlorophyll contents, the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) and Leaf relative water content (RWC)e1
Direction: increasede0

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e0
“Use of Azotobacter and vermicompost signifi cantly increased these traits in normal and defi cit irrigation”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 671–778

e1
“grain yield, Leaf Area Index, leaf chlorophyll contents, the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) and Leaf relative water content (RWC)”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 485–629

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“maize”
✓ located verbatim in the source · title, characters 94–99

Title

Vermicompost and Azotobacter as an ecological pathway to decrease chemical fertilizers in the maize, Zea mays

Ali Shirkhani; Safar Nasrolahzadeh Bioscience Biotechnology Research Communications 2016. doi:10.21786/bbrc/9.3/7

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Intervention effect Deficit irrigation decreased maize grain yield and leaf area index.
Intervention effect Deficit irrigation decreased maize leaf chlorophyll, NDVI and relative water content.
Intervention effect Azotobacter increased maize yield and leaf traits under normal and deficit irrigation.
Observation Using 6 ton/ha vermicompost and Azotobacter supplied 50% of maize fertilizer.
Intervention effect Combined biofertilizers and chemical fertilizers increased maize yield and other traits.
Intervention effect Vermicompost plus chemical fertilizer performed better than chemical fertilizer alone, including its full recommended rate.
Recommendation The authors recommend organic sources with 50% recommended NPK fertilizer for sustainable maize production under normal and deficit irrigation.

Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultnegativesignificant (as stated)measured

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Salt stress significantly decreased shoot and root length.

Taxon: maizeZea mayst0
Treatment: Salt stresse2
Outcome: shoot and root lengthe2
Direction: decreasee2

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“Salt stress led to a significant decrease in the relative water content, shoot and root length, fresh and dry weight as well as leaf area and K + content but increase Na + content”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 493–672

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“Comparative morphological, physiological, and biochemical traits in sensitive and tolerant maize genotypes in response to salinity and pb stress”
✓ located verbatim in the source · title, characters 0–144

Title

Comparative morphological, physiological, and biochemical traits in sensitive and tolerant maize genotypes in response to salinity and pb stress

Elnaz Zamani; Bahlanes Bakhtari; Hooman Razi; et al. Scientific Reports 2024. doi:10.1038/s41598-024-82173-5

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Intervention effect NaCl or Pb treatment of the sensitive genotype significantly reduced root length and plant height.
Intervention effect NaCl or Pb treatment of the sensitive genotype significantly reduced total fresh and dry weights.
Intervention effect NaCl or Pb treatment of the sensitive genotype significantly reduced chlorophyll and carotenoid content.
Intervention effect Salt stress significantly decreased relative water content.
Intervention effect Salt stress significantly decreased fresh and dry weight and leaf area.
Intervention effect Salt stress significantly decreased K+ content.
Intervention effect Salt stress increased Na+ content.
Intervention effect NaCl and Pb stresses increased antioxidant enzyme activity.
Intervention effect NaCl and Pb stresses increased proline content.
Intervention effect NaCl and Pb stresses increased malondialdehyde and hydrogen peroxide levels.
Observation Principal component analysis explained 69.8% and 16.5% of the total variation among the variables studied.
Association Hydrogen peroxide, malondialdehyde, peroxidase, catalase and ascorbate peroxidase levels were positively correlated with Na+ content.
Association K+, chlorophyll content and relative water content were negatively correlated with growth traits in maize.
Intervention effect The salt-tolerant maize genotype is more suitable for adapting to Pb stress than the salt-sensitive genotype.

Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultpositivesignificant (as stated)measured

Claim · model-written summary

Azotobacter increased maize yield and leaf traits under normal and deficit irrigation.

Taxon: maizeZea mayst0
Treatment: Azotobactere0
Interactor: AzotobacterAzotobactere0other
Outcome: grain yield, Leaf Area Index, leaf chlorophyll contents, the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) and Leaf relative water content (RWC)e1
Direction: increasede0

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e0
“Use of Azotobacter and vermicompost signifi cantly increased these traits in normal and defi cit irrigation”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 671–778

e1
“grain yield, Leaf Area Index, leaf chlorophyll contents, the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) and Leaf relative water content (RWC)”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 485–629

t0
“maize”
✓ located verbatim in the source · title, characters 94–99

t1
“Vermicompost and Azotobacter”
✓ located verbatim in the source · title, characters 0–28

Title

Vermicompost and Azotobacter as an ecological pathway to decrease chemical fertilizers in the maize, Zea mays

Ali Shirkhani; Safar Nasrolahzadeh Bioscience Biotechnology Research Communications 2016. doi:10.21786/bbrc/9.3/7

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Intervention effect Deficit irrigation decreased maize grain yield and leaf area index.
Intervention effect Deficit irrigation decreased maize leaf chlorophyll, NDVI and relative water content.
Intervention effect Vermicompost increased maize yield and leaf traits under normal and deficit irrigation.
Observation Using 6 ton/ha vermicompost and Azotobacter supplied 50% of maize fertilizer.
Intervention effect Combined biofertilizers and chemical fertilizers increased maize yield and other traits.
Intervention effect Vermicompost plus chemical fertilizer performed better than chemical fertilizer alone, including its full recommended rate.
Recommendation The authors recommend organic sources with 50% recommended NPK fertilizer for sustainable maize production under normal and deficit irrigation.

Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultmeasured

Claim · model-written summary

Water loss differed by a factor of two to three across humidity conditions.

Taxon: MaizeZea mayse1
Treatment: >95% relative humiditye1
Outcome: amount of water loste0
Direction: differede0
Value: factor 2 to 3e0
Comparator: 50–60%e1

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“the amount of water lost by the plants under these conditions differed by a factor 2 to 3”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 288–377

e1
“Maize plants were grown with nutrients supplied at adequate levels in hydroculture or in soil at 50–60% and at >95% relative humidity”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 144–277

e2
“there was neither a decrease in growth (fresh weight and dry weight) nor in ash content of the ‘humid’plants”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 379–487

Title

Does transpiration have an essential function in long‐distance ion transport in plants?

W. TANNER; H. BEEVERS Plant Cell & Environment 1990. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3040.1990.tb01089.x

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Intervention effect High humidity did not decrease maize fresh or dry weight.
Intervention effect High humidity did not decrease maize ash content.
Intervention effect The upper shoot also showed no decrease in growth or ash content under high humidity.
Mechanism The authors suggest transpiration is not essential for long-distance mineral transport.

Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultmeasured

Claim · model-written summary

Of the differentially expressed protein spots, 5 were down-regulated in water-deficient maize plants.

Taxon: maizeZea mayse2
Material: line KS140e2
Organ / stage: V5 or V6 leaf stagee2
Treatment: withholding water for 10 dayse2
Outcome: protein spotse6
Direction: decreaseinferrede6
Value: 5e6
Comparator: well-watered plantse1

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“inbred maize (Zea mays L.) line KS140 was subjected to drought stress by withholding water for 10 days at the V5 or V6 leaf stage”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 135–264

e1
“Water-deficient plants experienced a decrease in relative leaf water content, stomatal conductance, net CO2 assimilation rate, and water use efficiency compared to well-watered plants”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 266–449

e6
“Of the 29 differentially expressed proteins, 24 and 5 protein spots were up- and down-regulated in water-deficient plants, respectively”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 1120–1255

Title

Physiological and proteomic analysis of the response to drought stress in an inbred Korean maize line

Sang-Gon Kim; Lee Jinseok; Jung‐Tae Kim; et al. Plant Omics 2015

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Intervention effect Drought decreased relative leaf water content, stomatal conductance and net CO2 assimilation rate in maize line KS140 compared with well-watered plants.
Intervention effect Drought decreased water use efficiency in maize line KS140 compared with well-watered plants.
Intervention effect Drought reduced leaf area in maize line KS140 by 75% compared with well-watered plants.
Intervention effect Drought reduced aerial tissue dry matter by 64% in maize line KS140 compared with well-watered plants.
Intervention effect Drought reduced root dry matter by 56% in maize line KS140 compared with well-watered plants.
Intervention effect Leaf chlorophyll content was unchanged under drought in maize line KS140.
Intervention effect Twenty-nine protein spots were differentially expressed between well-watered and water-deficient maize plants.
Intervention effect Of the differentially expressed protein spots, 24 were up-regulated in water-deficient maize plants.
Observation 34% of the identified proteins were involved in metabolism in drought-treated maize.
Observation 24% of the identified proteins were involved in response to stress in drought-treated maize.
Observation 14% of the identified proteins were involved in photosynthesis in drought-treated maize.
Observation 7% of the identified proteins were involved in protein modification in drought-treated maize.
Observation 14% of the identified proteins were of unknown function in drought-treated maize.
Intervention effect Two pathogenesis-related proteins, an abscisic stress-ripening protein and heat shock protein 1 were expressed only under drought in maize.

Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultnegativemeasured

Claim · model-written summary

Salt stress increased Na+ content.

Taxon: maizeZea mayst0
Treatment: Salt stresse2
Outcome: Na + contente2
Direction: increasee2

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e2
“Salt stress led to a significant decrease in the relative water content, shoot and root length, fresh and dry weight as well as leaf area and K + content but increase Na + content”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 493–672

t0
“Comparative morphological, physiological, and biochemical traits in sensitive and tolerant maize genotypes in response to salinity and pb stress”
✓ located verbatim in the source · title, characters 0–144

Title

Comparative morphological, physiological, and biochemical traits in sensitive and tolerant maize genotypes in response to salinity and pb stress

Elnaz Zamani; Bahlanes Bakhtari; Hooman Razi; et al. Scientific Reports 2024. doi:10.1038/s41598-024-82173-5

Other claims from this paper (14)

Intervention effect NaCl or Pb treatment of the sensitive genotype significantly reduced root length and plant height.
Intervention effect NaCl or Pb treatment of the sensitive genotype significantly reduced total fresh and dry weights.
Intervention effect NaCl or Pb treatment of the sensitive genotype significantly reduced chlorophyll and carotenoid content.
Intervention effect Salt stress significantly decreased relative water content.
Intervention effect Salt stress significantly decreased shoot and root length.
Intervention effect Salt stress significantly decreased fresh and dry weight and leaf area.
Intervention effect Salt stress significantly decreased K+ content.
Intervention effect NaCl and Pb stresses increased antioxidant enzyme activity.
Intervention effect NaCl and Pb stresses increased proline content.
Intervention effect NaCl and Pb stresses increased malondialdehyde and hydrogen peroxide levels.
Observation Principal component analysis explained 69.8% and 16.5% of the total variation among the variables studied.
Association Hydrogen peroxide, malondialdehyde, peroxidase, catalase and ascorbate peroxidase levels were positively correlated with Na+ content.
Association K+, chlorophyll content and relative water content were negatively correlated with growth traits in maize.
Intervention effect The salt-tolerant maize genotype is more suitable for adapting to Pb stress than the salt-sensitive genotype.

Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultnegativesignificant (as stated)measured

Claim · model-written summary

Salt stress significantly decreased fresh and dry weight and leaf area.

Taxon: maizeZea mayst0
Treatment: Salt stresse2
Outcome: fresh and dry weight as well as leaf areae2
Direction: decreasee2

Not reportedComparator

Verbatim

e2
“Salt stress led to a significant decrease in the relative water content, shoot and root length, fresh and dry weight as well as leaf area and K + content but increase Na + content”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 493–672

t0
“Comparative morphological, physiological, and biochemical traits in sensitive and tolerant maize genotypes in response to salinity and pb stress”
✓ located verbatim in the source · title, characters 0–144

Title

Comparative morphological, physiological, and biochemical traits in sensitive and tolerant maize genotypes in response to salinity and pb stress

Elnaz Zamani; Bahlanes Bakhtari; Hooman Razi; et al. Scientific Reports 2024. doi:10.1038/s41598-024-82173-5

Other claims from this paper (14)

Intervention effect NaCl or Pb treatment of the sensitive genotype significantly reduced root length and plant height.
Intervention effect NaCl or Pb treatment of the sensitive genotype significantly reduced total fresh and dry weights.
Intervention effect NaCl or Pb treatment of the sensitive genotype significantly reduced chlorophyll and carotenoid content.
Intervention effect Salt stress significantly decreased relative water content.
Intervention effect Salt stress significantly decreased shoot and root length.
Intervention effect Salt stress significantly decreased K+ content.
Intervention effect Salt stress increased Na+ content.
Intervention effect NaCl and Pb stresses increased antioxidant enzyme activity.
Intervention effect NaCl and Pb stresses increased proline content.
Intervention effect NaCl and Pb stresses increased malondialdehyde and hydrogen peroxide levels.
Observation Principal component analysis explained 69.8% and 16.5% of the total variation among the variables studied.
Association Hydrogen peroxide, malondialdehyde, peroxidase, catalase and ascorbate peroxidase levels were positively correlated with Na+ content.
Association K+, chlorophyll content and relative water content were negatively correlated with growth traits in maize.
Intervention effect The salt-tolerant maize genotype is more suitable for adapting to Pb stress than the salt-sensitive genotype.

Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultnegativesignificant (as stated)measured

Claim · model-written summary

Salinity stress significantly decreased mineral element contents, ascorbate and glutathione in maize

Taxon: maize (Zea mays)Zea mayst0
Treatment: salinity stress (SS; 100 mM NaCl)e0
Outcome: mineral element contents, ascorbate, and glutathionee1
Direction: decreasee1
Comparator: control (no NaCl added)e0

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“maize (Zea mays) plants”
✓ located verbatim in the source · title, characters 140–163

e0
“control (no NaCl added) or salinity stress (SS; 100 mM NaCl)”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 482–542

e1
“SS caused a significant decrease in plant growth, PSII maximum efficiency, chlorophyll a and b, leaf water potential, relative water content, mineral element contents, ascorbate, and glutathione”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 615–809

Title

The endogenous L-cysteine desulfhydrase and hydrogen sulfide participate in supplemented phosphorus-induced tolerance to salinity stress in maize (Zea mays) plants

KAYA, Cengiz; ASHRAF, Muhammad DergiPark (Istanbul University) 2020

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Intervention effect Salinity stress significantly decreased maize plant growth, PSII maximum efficiency, and chlorophyll a and b
Intervention effect Salinity stress significantly decreased leaf water potential and relative water content in maize
Intervention effect Salinity stress significantly increased hydrogen peroxide, malondialdehyde and electron leakage in maize
Intervention effect Salinity stress significantly increased proline and the activities of key antioxidant enzymes in maize
Intervention effect Salinity stress significantly increased leaf Na+ content in maize
Intervention effect Salinity stress significantly increased endogenous H2S and LDES activity in maize
Intervention effect Phosphorus supplementation reduced leaf Na+ content and oxidative stress in salinity-stressed maize
Intervention effect Phosphorus supplementation improved antioxidant defence system, leaf mineral nutrient contents and plant growth in salinity-stressed maize
Intervention effect Phosphorus supplementation improved photosynthetic traits, H2S and proline levels, and LDES activity in salinity-stressed maize
Intervention effect Hypotaurine significantly reversed the levels of H2S in maize
Intervention effect Hypotaurine did not reduce LDES activity in maize
Intervention effect Propargylglycine reversed both H2S and LDES in salinity-stressed maize
Intervention effect Hypotaurine and propargylglycine both reversed the positive effects of phosphorus on oxidative stress and antioxidant defence in maize
Mechanism H2S and LDES jointly participated in phosphorus-induced salinity tolerance of maize, as suggested by the authors

Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultnegativesignificant (as stated)measured

Claim · model-written summary

Salinity stress significantly decreased maize plant growth, PSII maximum efficiency, and chlorophyll a and b

Taxon: maize (Zea mays)Zea mayst0
Treatment: salinity stress (SS; 100 mM NaCl)e0
Outcome: plant growth, PSII maximum efficiency, chlorophyll a and be1
Direction: decreasee1
Comparator: control (no NaCl added)e0

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t0
“maize (Zea mays) plants”
✓ located verbatim in the source · title, characters 140–163

e0
“control (no NaCl added) or salinity stress (SS; 100 mM NaCl)”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 482–542

e1
“SS caused a significant decrease in plant growth, PSII maximum efficiency, chlorophyll a and b, leaf water potential, relative water content, mineral element contents, ascorbate, and glutathione”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 615–809

Title

The endogenous L-cysteine desulfhydrase and hydrogen sulfide participate in supplemented phosphorus-induced tolerance to salinity stress in maize (Zea mays) plants

KAYA, Cengiz; ASHRAF, Muhammad DergiPark (Istanbul University) 2020

Other claims from this paper (14)

Intervention effect Salinity stress significantly decreased leaf water potential and relative water content in maize
Intervention effect Salinity stress significantly decreased mineral element contents, ascorbate and glutathione in maize
Intervention effect Salinity stress significantly increased hydrogen peroxide, malondialdehyde and electron leakage in maize
Intervention effect Salinity stress significantly increased proline and the activities of key antioxidant enzymes in maize
Intervention effect Salinity stress significantly increased leaf Na+ content in maize
Intervention effect Salinity stress significantly increased endogenous H2S and LDES activity in maize
Intervention effect Phosphorus supplementation reduced leaf Na+ content and oxidative stress in salinity-stressed maize
Intervention effect Phosphorus supplementation improved antioxidant defence system, leaf mineral nutrient contents and plant growth in salinity-stressed maize
Intervention effect Phosphorus supplementation improved photosynthetic traits, H2S and proline levels, and LDES activity in salinity-stressed maize
Intervention effect Hypotaurine significantly reversed the levels of H2S in maize
Intervention effect Hypotaurine did not reduce LDES activity in maize
Intervention effect Propargylglycine reversed both H2S and LDES in salinity-stressed maize
Intervention effect Hypotaurine and propargylglycine both reversed the positive effects of phosphorus on oxidative stress and antioxidant defence in maize
Mechanism H2S and LDES jointly participated in phosphorus-induced salinity tolerance of maize, as suggested by the authors

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