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Salinity decreased leaf relative water content in green gram.

Taxon: green gramVigna radiata var. radiatat0
Treatment: salinitye0
Outcome: leaf relative water contente0
Direction: decreasee0

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“There was decrease in the leaf relative water content and soluble protein content in plants under salinity”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 645–751

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“Green Gram”
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“Green Gram”
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Title

Effect of Sodium Chloride on Soluble Protein, Nitrate Reductase Activity, Proline and Catalase Enzyme Activity of Green Gram Cultivars (Co6 And Co8)

Karuppasamy Krishna Legume Genomics and Genetics 2014. doi:10.5376/lgg.2014.05.0005

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Intervention effect Salinity decreased soluble protein content in green gram.
Intervention effect Salinity increased NRase enzyme activity by 32 per cent in green gram.
Intervention effect Proline increased under salinity stress in green gram.
Intervention effect Catalase enzyme activity increased under salinity stress in green gram.

Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultnegativesignificant (as stated)measured

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Drought significantly decreased relative water content across all three stages.

Taxon: Andrographis paniculataAndrographis paniculatat0
Outcome: relative water content (RWC)e0
Direction: decreasee0
Qualifier: Across all three stagese0

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“Across all three stages, a significant decrease was observed in dry weight, relative water content (RWC), photosynthesis, conductance, and transpiration”
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“Andrographis paniculata”
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Title

Drought stress in Andrographis paniculata: impact on physiological parameters and andrographolide content as mediated by growth stages

Pritee Singh; V. Keshava Rao; R. H. Laxman; et al. Functional Plant Biology 2025. doi:10.1071/fp24198

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Association Flowering and fruiting plants were more drought sensitive than vegetative plants.
Intervention effect Drought stress at the vegetative stage increased total andrographolide content by as much as 37% versus control.
Intervention effect Drought stress at flowering increased total andrographolide content by as much as 44% versus control.
Intervention effect Drought stress at fruiting left total andrographolide content unaffected.
Intervention effect Drought significantly decreased dry weight across all three stages.
Intervention effect Drought significantly decreased photosynthesis, conductance and transpiration across all three stages.
Association Total andrographolide content was negatively correlated with dry weight, relative water content and photosynthesis rate.

Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultnegativemeasured

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Salt induced relative water content decreases were similar in both cultivars.

Taxon: cowpeaVigna unguiculatae1
Treatment: salte0
Outcome: relative water contente0
Direction: decreasee0
Comparator: both cultivarse0

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“The salt-induced decrease in the relative water content, Na+ accumulation and increase in leaf electrolyte leakage was similar in both cultivars.”
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“cowpea [Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp.]”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 176–213

Title

Antioxidative enzymatic protection in leaves of two contrasting cowpea cultivars under salinity

J. M. Maia; C. E. Costa de Macedo; E. L. Voigt; et al. Biologia Plantarum 2010. doi:10.1007/s10535-010-0026-y

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Intervention effect Salt stress reduced leaf growth rate more in the sensitive cultivar.
Intervention effect Salt induced Na+ accumulation was similar in both cultivars.
Intervention effect Salt increased leaf electrolyte leakage similarly in both cultivars.
Intervention effect Salt induced greater SOD, APX, and POX activity increases in the tolerant cultivar.

Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultnegativesignificant (as stated)measured

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Decreasing water level significantly decreased relative water content and membrane stability index in Cassia occidentalis.

Taxon: Cassia occidentalisSenna occidentalist0
Treatment: decrease in water levele0
Outcome: relative water content and membrane stability indexe0
Direction: decreasede0

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“Physiological parameters like leaf area index, biomass accumulation, relative water content and membrane stability index decreased significantly with decrease in water level”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 694–867

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“Cassia occidentalis”
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Title

Growth response and antioxidant enzyme activity of Cassia occidentalis exposed to soil moisture stress

Srishti Srivastava Biolife 2015. doi:10.17812/blj2015.32.24

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Intervention effect Decreasing water level significantly decreased leaf area index and biomass accumulation in Cassia occidentalis.
Intervention effect Mild water treatment enhanced Cassia occidentalis growth.
Intervention effect Stress increased antioxidant enzyme activity in Cassia occidentalis.
Mechanism The authors conclude that enhanced antioxidant defense allows Cassia occidentalis to tolerate limited water levels.
Intervention effect Excessive drought markedly affected Cassia occidentalis enzyme activity, with no direction stated.
Intervention effect Excessive drought depleted Cassia occidentalis growth.

Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultpositivemeasured

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Drought hardening alleviated decreases in relative water content, net photosynthetic rate and chlorophyll content under drought.

Taxon: potatoSolanum tuberosumt0
Treatment: drought hardeninge0
Outcome: relative water content (RWC), net photosynthetic rate (Pn) and chlorophyll contente0
Direction: alleviated the decreasee0

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“drought hardening alleviated the decrease in relative water content (RWC), net photosynthetic rate (Pn) and chlorophyll content”
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“potato seedlings”
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Title

Influence of drought hardening on the resistance physiology of potato seedlings under drought stress

Shu-han ZHANG; Xue-feng XU; Ye-min SUN; et al. Journal of Integrative Agriculture 2018. doi:10.1016/s2095-3119(17)61758-1

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Intervention effect Drought hardening inhibited increases in relative electric conductivity and malondialdehyde content.
Intervention effect Drought-hardened seedlings had enhanced root vigor under drought.
Intervention effect Drought-hardened seedlings had increased antioxidant enzyme activity.
Intervention effect Drought-hardened seedlings had higher abscisic acid, proline and soluble sugars under drought.
Intervention effect Drought-hardened seedlings had higher polyamine levels under drought.
Intervention effect Stomatal density increased significantly with drought hardening.
Intervention effect Leaf area, stomatal size and stomatal aperture decreased with drought hardening.
Observation The changes reduced leaf transpiration rate.
Observation The changes improved water utilization efficiency.
Mechanism Leaf microstructure changes had a positive effect on drought resistance.
Mechanism Authors attribute enhanced resistance physiology to increased hormones, osmotic substances and antioxidant enzyme activity.

Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultnegativemeasured

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Waterlogging decreased wheat relative water content in flag leaf.

Taxon: WheatTriticum aestivumt0
Treatment: waterlogginge0
Outcome: relative water content in flag leafe0
Direction: decreasee0

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“the waterlogging made the root vigor decrease, the content of malondialdehyde in flag leaf increase, the content of chlorophyll, the net photosynthesis rate, the nitrate reductase activity, the relative water content in flag leaf decrease, the content of organic matter change obviously”
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“Wheat”
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Title

Changes of Physiological Characters of Wheat After Waterlogging and Relations Between Physiological Characters and Waterlogging Tolerance of Different Varieties

Zhou Guang 2002

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Intervention effect Waterlogging decreased wheat root vigor.
Intervention effect Waterlogging increased wheat content of malondialdehyde in flag leaf.
Intervention effect Waterlogging decreased wheat content of chlorophyll.
Intervention effect Waterlogging decreased wheat net photosynthesis rate.
Intervention effect Waterlogging decreased wheat nitrate reductase activity.
Intervention effect Waterlogging changed wheat content of organic matter.
Intervention effect Waterlogging reduced wheat grains per plant.
Intervention effect Waterlogging reduced wheat 1 000 grains weight.
Intervention effect Waterlogging reduced wheat yield per plant.
Association Wheat waterlogging tolerance correlated highly significantly with water conservation ability of flag leaf.
Association Wheat waterlogging tolerance correlated highly significantly with content of free amino acids in secondary root.
Association Wheat waterlogging tolerance correlated highly significantly with content of starch in secondary root at booting stage.
Association Wheat waterlogging tolerance correlated highly significantly with percentage of stem yield in yield per plant at ripening stage.
Association Wheat waterlogging tolerance correlated significantly with content of malondialdehyde in flag leaf.
Association Wheat waterlogging tolerance correlated significantly with relative water content in flag leaf.
Association Wheat waterlogging tolerance correlated significantly with content of free amino acids in leaves.

Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultnegativemeasured

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Reduced soil water decreased leaf relative water content.

Taxon: Field Sowthistle (Sonchus arvensis L.)Sonchus arvensist0
Treatment: decrease in soil water contente0
Outcome: relative water contente0
Direction: decreasee0

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“With the decrease in soil water content, plant height, fresh and dry weight of shoots and roots, relative water content, chlorophyll a and total chlorophyll decrease, and in contrast to root length, chlorophyll b, carotenoid, proline, soluble sugar, total protein, phenol and Total flavonoid, antioxidant enzymes, inhibition of DPPH radical activity and iron reducing power (FRAP) increased.”
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“Field Sowthistle (Sonchus arvensis L.)”
✓ located verbatim in the source · title, characters 122–160

Title

The Effect of Drought Stress on Some Morphological, Phytochemical, and Biochemical Characteristics of the Medicinal Plant Field Sowthistle (Sonchus arvensis L.)

Roghaieh Azizyan; Babak Abdollahi Mandoulakani Surūsh javān. 2023. doi:10.61186/jcb.15.47.41

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Intervention effect Reduced soil water decreased plant height and fresh and dry shoot and root weights.
Intervention effect Reduced soil water decreased chlorophyll a and total chlorophyll.
Intervention effect Reduced soil water increased root length.
Intervention effect Reduced soil water increased chlorophyll b and carotenoids.
Intervention effect Reduced soil water increased proline, soluble sugar, and total protein.
Intervention effect Reduced soil water increased phenol and total flavonoid.
Intervention effect Reduced soil water increased antioxidant enzymes.
Intervention effect Reduced soil water increased DPPH radical inhibition and FRAP iron reducing power.
Observation Middle leaves contained more of the examined traits than lower leaves.

Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultnegativesignificant (as stated)measured

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Water deficit significantly decreased relative water content and leaf osmotic potential in forage rape.

Taxon: forage rapee0
Treatment: water-deficit treatmente2
Outcome: relative water content (RWC) and leaf osmotic potentiale1
Direction: decreasee1

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“in the leaves with different maturities in forage rape”
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“The significant decrease in relative water content (RWC) and leaf osmotic potential”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 344–427

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“after 5 d of water-deficit treatment”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 458–494

Title

Lignification in Relation to the Influence of Water-deficit Stress in Brassica napus

Bok-Rye Lee; Qian Zhang; Tae-Hwan Kim Han-guk choji josaryo hakoeji 2014. doi:10.5333/kgfs.2014.34.1.15

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Intervention effect Water deficit depressed GPOD, APOD and CPOD activity in middle and old forage rape leaves compared with control leaves.
Intervention effect Water deficit depressed SPOD activity in middle and old forage rape leaves compared with control leaves.
Intervention effect Water deficit increased CPOD activity by 34% in young forage rape leaves.
Intervention effect Water deficit increased SPOD activity by 24% in young forage rape leaves.
Observation PAL activation was observed in middle and old forage rape leaves.
Observation PPO activation was observed in young and middle forage rape leaves.
Mechanism Peroxidases in middle and old forage rape leaves did not take part in lignification under mild water deficit.
Mechanism CPOD and SPOD in young forage rape leaves participate in lignification together with PAL and PPO.

Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultnegativemeasured

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Hybrid larch sapwood relative water content decreased with water shortage.

Taxon: hybrid larche1
Treatment: water shortagee0
Outcome: relative water content of the sapwoode0
Direction: decreasee0

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“HL saplings were the most reactive to water shortage, indicated by intra-annual density fluctuations and a decrease in relative water content of the sapwood.”
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“Japanese and hybrid larch showed isohydric strategy.”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 174–226

Title

Physiological and anatomical responses to drought stress differ between two larch species and their hybrid

Nadia Sasani; Luc E. Pâques; Guillaume Boulanger; et al. Trees 2021. doi:10.1007/s00468-021-02129-4

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Intervention effect Across larch species, controls had higher biomass, transpiration and relative water content than drought-stressed trees.
Intervention effect Controls had lower transpiration efficiency than drought-stressed larch trees.
Observation Japanese larch had the highest drought transpiration efficiency.
Observation European larch had the lowest drought transpiration efficiency, coinciding with slower growth.
Observation European larch predrought wood had higher wall/lumen ratio.
Observation European larch predrought wood had lower pit cavity area.
Intervention effect European larch showed no significant drought increase in transpiration efficiency.
Intervention effect European larch showed no drought reduction in transpiration rate.
Mechanism European larch stomata were interpreted as remaining open under soil water deficit.
Observation Hybrid larch was most reactive to water shortage, with intra-annual density fluctuations.
Intervention effect Hybrid larch significantly reduced transpiration.
Mechanism Hybrid larch transpiration reduction suggested higher stomatal sensitivity.
Observation Hybrid larch maintained the same leaf surface area.
Observation Hybrid larch radial growth remained similar to Japanese larch.
Intervention effect Japanese larch had significantly lower leaf surface area under drought than controls.
Observation European larch followed an anisohydric strategy with hydraulically safer wood.
Observation Japanese larch showed an isohydric strategy.
Observation Hybrid larch followed the Japanese larch isohydric strategy rather than the European strategy.

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Leaf relative water content may slightly decline through the day.

Taxon: GRAPEVINEVitist0
Outcome: Leaf relative water contente0
Direction: decreasee0
Qualifier: day of June, with normal temperature, no rain, no water restriction in soile0

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“Leaf relative water content has maximum value in the morning; the values may slightly decrease during the day (day of June, with normal temperature, no rain, no water restriction in soil).”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 533–721

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“GRAPEVINE”
✓ located verbatim in the source · title, characters 69–78

Title

DIURNAL CHANGES IN LEAF PHOTOSYNTHESIS AND RELATIVE WATER CONTENT OF GRAPEVINE

Monica Popescu; Gheorghe Cristian Popescu http://www.upit.ro/uploads/revistastiinte/CTNS%20vol%203%20issue%206/Paper%2010.pdf 2014

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Observation Photosynthetic rate had a single peak at noon of 10.794 µmol CO2 m-2 s-1.
Observation Leaf relative water content peaked in the morning.

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