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root and seedling fresh masses decreased as PEG osmotic potential fell.
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e0“The results showed that the germination energy, germination rate, germination index, root and seedling lengths, root and seedling diameters, root and seedling fresh masses, root and seedling dry masses, and seedling relative water content (RWC) decreased with the decrease of the osmotic potential of PEG 6000 solution.”
t0“Job’s Tears”
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Can Wang; Lingbo Zhou; Guobing Zhang; et al. Agricultural Sciences 2018. doi:10.4236/as.2018.98069
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- Observation germination energy, germination rate, germination index decreased as PEG osmotic potential fell.
- Observation root and seedling lengths decreased as PEG osmotic potential fell.
- Observation root and seedling diameters decreased as PEG osmotic potential fell.
- Observation root and seedling dry masses decreased as PEG osmotic potential fell.
- Observation seedling relative water content (RWC) decreased as PEG osmotic potential fell.
- Observation hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) increased as PEG osmotic potential fell.
- Observation malondialdehyde (MDA) increased as PEG osmotic potential fell.
- Observation proline increased as PEG osmotic potential fell.
- Observation peroxidase (POD), catalase (CAT) activities first increased then decreased as osmotic potential fell.
- Observation ascorbate peroxidase (APX), and glutathione reductase (GR) activities first increased then decreased as osmotic potential fell.
- Recommendation The authors identified -0.1 MPa as optimal PEG osmotic potential at germination.
- Mechanism Proline, POD and CAT were interpreted as important for seedling drought resistance.