Claim · model-written summary
Relative water content declined less in the sensitive maize genotype under moderate drought.
- Material
- sensitive genotypee1
- Treatment
- moderate drought conditionse0
- Outcome
- relative water contente1
- Direction
- slighter decreasee1
Zea maysNot reportedComparator
Verbatim
e0“two maize (Zea mays L.) genotypes with contrasting sensitivity to dehydration were subjected to moderate drought conditions”
e1“a slighter decrease in the relative water content in the sensitive genotype”
Title
Monika Benešová; Dana Holá; Lukáš Fischer; et al. PLoS ONE 2012. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0038017
Other claims from this paper (9)
- Intervention effect Moderate drought decreased stomatal conductance in the sensitive maize genotype.
- Observation The tolerant maize genotype maintained open stomata under dehydration.
- Observation The tolerant maize genotype maintained active photosynthesis under dehydration.
- Method / resource The two leaf proteomic approaches yielded compatible but partly overlapping results.
- Intervention effect Drought up-regulated protective and stress-related proteins in both maize genotypes.
- Association Differences in detoxification protein levels corresponded with antioxidant enzyme activities in maize.
- Observation The sensitive maize genotype had fewer and lower levels of up-regulated protective proteins.
- Mechanism Changes in translation machinery components indicated reduced proteosynthesis in the sensitive maize genotype.
- Mechanism The authors propose that early stomatal closure inhibits photosynthesis and thereby reduces protective protein synthesis in sensitive maize.