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Steady water tables at 5 and 10 cm did not restrain relative leaf expansion rate.

Taxon: tomato plantsSolanum lycopersicumt0
Treatment: steady water table at 5-cm and 10-cm depthe0
Outcome: relative leaf expansion rate (RLER)e0
Direction: did not restraine0
Comparator: Untreated control plantse1

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“steady water table at 5-cm and 10-cm depth did not restrain relative leaf expansion rate (RLER)”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 1045–1140

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“Untreated control plants”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 797–821

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“tomato plants”
✓ located verbatim in the source · title, characters 122–135

Title

Steady shallow water table did not decrease leaf expansion rate, specific leaf weight, and specific leaf water content in tomato plants

Mei Meihana; STIPER Sriwigama, Palembang 30137, Indonesia; Benyamin Lakitan; et al. Australian Journal of Crop Science 2017. doi:10.21475/ajcs.17.11.12.pne808

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Method / resource A zero intercept linear model was selected for tomato leaf area estimation.
Intervention effect Specific leaf fresh weight did not differ significantly between treated and untreated plants.
Intervention effect Specific leaf water content did not differ significantly between treated and untreated plants.
Observation Steady shallow water tables at 5 cm or deeper did not affect tomato growth.

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The most negative leaf water potential was not associated with greatest leaf firing or decreased leaf extension.

Taxon: Creeping BentgrassAgrostis stoloniferat0
Organ / stage: leafe0
Outcome: leaf firing or decrease in leaf extensione0
Direction: not associatede0
Qualifier: most negative LWPe0

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“The most negative LWP was not associated with the greatest leaf firing or decrease in leaf extension.”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 1222–1323

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“Creeping Bentgrass”
✓ located verbatim in the source · title, characters 61–79

Title

Leaf Water Potential and Relative Water Content Variation in Creeping Bentgrass Clones

V. G. Lehman; M. C. Engelke; R. H. White Crop Science 1993. doi:10.2135/cropsci1993.0011183x003300060045x

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Pretreatment with benzyladenine did not prevent the decrease in reducing sugar contents relative to unpulsed leaves.

Taxon: Zantedeschia aethiopica and Z. elliottianaZantedeschia aethiopicaZantedeschia elliottianae0
Organ / stage: Cut leavese0
Treatment: Pretreatment with BAe3
Outcome: reducing sugar contentse3
Direction: no_changeinferrede3
Comparator: unpulsed leavese2

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“Cut leaves of Zantedeschia aethiopica and Z. elliottiana”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 10–66

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“Pulsed and unpulsed leaves were kept either in water or in the preservative”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 509–584

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“Pretreatment with BA did not counteract a decrease in reducing sugar contents”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 730–807

Title

SENESCENCE OF CUT LEAVES OF Zantedeschia aethiopica AND Z. elliottiana. PART III. THE REDUCING SUGARS CONTENT

E. Skutnik; J. Rabiza-Świder; M. Wachowicz; et al. http://www.hortorumcultus.actapol.net/pub/3_2_219.pdf 2004. doi:10.24326/asphc.2004.2.23

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Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultno effectmeasured

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Conditioning treatments generally did not reduce greenhouse eggplant growth relative to controls.

Taxon: eggplantSolanum melongenae1
Treatment: mechanical stress or exogenous abscisic acid (ABA)e1
Outcome: growth responsese0
Direction: did not decreasee0
Comparator: controlse0

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“Treatments generally did not decrease growth responses relative to controls during a 3-day conditioning period in the greenhouse”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 1783–1911

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“Greenhouse-grown eggplant were treated with mechanical stress or exogenous abscisic acid (ABA)”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 1646–1740

Title

EFFECTS OF LIGHT, MECHANICAL STRESSES, EXOGENOUS ABSCISIC ACID, AND/OR OUTDOOR EXPOSURE ON GROWTH, WATER RELATIONS, AND ENDOGENOUS ABSCISIC ACID CONTENT OF EGGPLANT (ACCLIMATION, ABA, HARDENING-OFF, PLANT CONDITIONING)

Joyce G. Latimer Purdue e-Pubs (Purdue University System) 1986

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Intervention effect Supplemental radiation pretreatment improved outdoor eggplant growth relative to greenhouse shade treatments.
Intervention effect UV-B protection increased outdoor eggplant leaf area compared with UV-B exposure.
Intervention effect UV-B protection did not change outdoor eggplant leaf or shoot dry weight.
Intervention effect Greenhouse UV-B reduced eggplant leaf expansion and dry weight gain after five days.
Intervention effect After 12 days, UV-B treated eggplant had no leaf or shoot dry weight difference from controls.
Intervention effect Mechanical stress generally reduced productivity and dimensional growth more in wind-protected settings than in outdoor wind.
Intervention effect Mechanical stress generally reduced soybean productivity and dimensional growth more in wind-protected settings than outdoors in wind.
Intervention effect Conditioning treatments increased specific leaf chlorophyll in greenhouse eggplant.
Intervention effect Mechanical stress had no effect on endogenous ABA levels in eggplant leaves.
Intervention effect Seismic stress decreased eggplant leaf water potential.
Intervention effect Outdoor exposure decreased untreated eggplant relative growth rate and leaf chlorophyll.
Intervention effect Outdoor exposure increased untreated eggplant leaf ABA content.
Intervention effect Outdoor exposure altered untreated eggplant water status.

Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultno effectmeasured

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Leaf chlorophyll content was unchanged under drought in maize line KS140.

Taxon: maizeZea mayse2
Material: line KS140e2
Organ / stage: V5 or V6 leaf stagee2
Treatment: withholding water for 10 dayse2
Outcome: Leaf chlorophyll contente4
Direction: unchangede4
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

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“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

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“Leaf chlorophyll content was unchanged”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 665–703

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 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.
Intervention effect Of the differentially expressed protein spots, 5 were down-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 resultno effectnot significant (as stated)measured

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At 100% relative humidity, chilling caused no significant fall in leaf soluble protein.

Taxon: peaLathyrus oleraceuse1
Treatment: chilled at 5°C, 100% r.h.e0
Outcome: leaf soluble proteine0
Direction: no significant decreasee0

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“When plants of each species were chilled at 5°C, 100% r.h., water loss was greatly reduced or prevented and there was no significant decrease in leaf soluble protein”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 1177–1342

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“pea (chill-resistant), mung bean (highly chill-sensitive), and tomato and french bean (intermediate chilling-sensitivity)”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 223–344

Title

Changes in the Soluble Protein and Free Amino Acid Content of Chill-Sensitive and Chill-Resistant Plants During Chilling and Hardening Treatments

C. H. ROSINGER; J. M. WILSON; M. W. KERR Journal of Experimental Botany 1984. doi:10.1093/jxb/35.10.1460

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Intervention effect Drought decreased leaf protein levels by 30–40% in the four species.
Intervention effect Drought increased free amino acids by 100–200% except in mung bean.
Intervention effect Four days of chilling reduced mung bean leaf water content by almost 50%.
Intervention effect The same chilling reduced leaf water content by approximately 6–7% in the other three species.
Intervention effect Chilling reduced leaf soluble protein in all four species, especially mung bean.
Intervention effect Mung bean protein fell by over 80% after four days of chilling.
Association Protein loss under chilling coincided with increased amino acids in chill-sensitive species, but the increase could not account for all lost protein.
Intervention effect At 100% relative humidity, chilling greatly reduced or prevented water loss.
Intervention effect Chilling at 100% humidity increased free amino acids in chill-sensitive species.
Intervention effect Drought increased leaf free proline 6–20 fold.
Intervention effect Chilling and hardening caused little change in leaf free proline.

Observationobservedoriginal resultno effectmeasured

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Armeria had no glutathione loss.

Taxon: Armeria maritimaArmeria maritimae0
Outcome: glutathionee0
Direction: no losse0

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“Armeria maritima showed similar decreases in relative water content and dry weight after droughting, but a quantitatively smaller decrease in ascorbate with no loss of glutathione”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 588–767

Title

The role of ascorbate in drought‐treated Cochlearia atlantica Pobed. and Armeria maritima (Mill.) Willd.

SARAH M. BUCKLAND; ADAM H. PRICE; GEORGE A. F. HENDRY New Phytologist 1991. doi:10.1111/j.1469-8137.1991.tb01019.x

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Intervention effect Drought decreased ascorbate and glutathione in Cochlearia.
Intervention effect Drought did not increase lipid peroxidation in Cochlearia.
Intervention effect Drought destroyed chlorophyll in Cochlearia.
Intervention effect Drought decreased protein in Cochlearia.
Observation Five oxygen processing enzyme activities changed little or not at all in Cochlearia.
Observation Armeria and Cochlearia had similar decreases in relative water content and dry weight after drought.
Observation Armeria had a smaller ascorbate decrease than Cochlearia.
Intervention effect Drought markedly increased superoxide dismutasc and peroxidase activity in Armeria.
Intervention effect Drought increased lipid peroxidation in Armeria.
Mechanism The authors infer a role for ascorbic acid and glutathione in Cochlearia drought response.
Mechanism The authors infer that enzymic processing largely protects Armeria under drought.

Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultno effectmeasured

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Low night temperature did not increase transpiration of sweet pepper

Taxon: sweet pepperCapsicum annuume0
Treatment: LNTe1
Outcome: transpiratione1
Direction: no_changeinferrede1

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“The response of sweet pepper seedlings to different doses of low night temperature (LNT) (1/4/7 nights at 6/18 °C)”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 385–499

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“LNT reduced water uptake and relative water content (RWC) of plant tissues probably due to a decrease of hydraulic conductivity but not to an increase of transpiration”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 586–753

Title

Physiological Processes Affected by Low Night Temperatures in Sweet Pepper Plants

E. Gorbe Sánchez; E. Heuvelink; C. Stanghellini Procedia Environmental Sciences 2015. doi:10.1016/j.proenv.2015.07.189

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Intervention effect Low night temperature reduced water uptake and relative water content of sweet pepper plant tissues
Intervention effect Low night temperature enhanced the accumulation of sucrose and starch in sweet pepper leaves during the night
Association Starch accumulation did not affect photosynthesis in sweet pepper, due to feedback inhibition
Intervention effect Photo-inhibition was observed in sweet pepper after 7 cold nights
Intervention effect CO2 uptake of sweet pepper was not affected after 7 cold nights
Intervention effect Total dry weight production of sweet pepper was not affected after 7 cold nights
Intervention effect Low night temperature decreased specific leaf area of sweet pepper
Intervention effect Low night temperature led to shorter sweet pepper plants
Intervention effect Low night temperature led to thicker sweet pepper leaves
Intervention effect Low night temperature led to smaller sweet pepper leaves
Mechanism Loss of turgor from reduced relative water content reduced stem elongation and leaf expansion in sweet pepper
Mechanism The decrease of cell elongation in sweet pepper was due to reduced water uptake capacity
Intervention effect Low night temperature did not stop the clock that regulates sweet pepper plant processes

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Shoots of tomato plants with only half of the roots watered showed no increase in ABA content.

Taxon: tomatoSolanum lycopersicume1
Treatment: only half of the roots were waterede4
Compound: ABAe4
Outcome: ABA contente4
Direction: no increasee4

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“The expression of four genes, le4, le16, le20, and le25, which require increased ABA content for expression, was studied in tomato plants”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 167–304

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“Shoots of plants in which only half of the roots were watered showed no decrease in relative water content and no increase in ABA content; however, three of the four genes, le4, le16, and le20, were induced”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 1156–1362

Title

Shoot induction of ABA-requiring genes in response to soil drying

Allen Griffiths; Elizabeth A. Bray Journal of Experimental Botany 1996. doi:10.1093/jxb/47.10.1525

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Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultno effectnot significant (as stated)measured

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Cadmium caused no reliable difference in cellular juice concentration in red Lolo Ross lettuce.

Taxon: Lactuca sativa L.Lactuca sativae0
Material: red Lolo Rosse2
Treatment: cadmium ionse0
Outcome: concentration of cell juicee3
Direction: absence of a reliable differencee3

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“the effect of cadmium ions on the water exchange parameters in green Lolo and red Lolo Ross varieties of Lactuca sativa L.”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 38–160

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“the water deficit decrease, an increase in the parameters of relative turgescence and free water content to the fourteenth day of exposure was noted for the red Lolo Ross variety”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 976–1154

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“the absence of a reliable difference in the parameter of the concentration of cell juice”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 1165–1253

Title

Water exchange parameters of lettuce plants under the action of cadmium ions

I. Khomenk; O. Kosyk; N. Taran Bulletin of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv Series “Psychology” 2018. doi:10.17721/1728_2748.2018.76.20-25

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Intervention effect Cadmium increased the water deficit of green Lolo lettuce compared with control.
Intervention effect Cadmium reduced relative turgescence, free water content and cellular juice concentration in green Lolo lettuce compared with control.
Intervention effect Cadmium decreased the water deficit of red Lolo Ross lettuce by the fourteenth day of exposure.
Intervention effect Cadmium increased relative turgescence and free water content in red Lolo Ross lettuce by the fourteenth day of exposure.
Intervention effect Cadmium increased xeromorphism of leaf blades in green Lolo lettuce.
Intervention effect Cadmium increased xeromorphism of leaf blades in red Lolo Ross lettuce.
Intervention effect Cadmium increased stomata density in green Lolo lettuce.
Intervention effect Cadmium increased stomata density in red Lolo Ross lettuce.
Observation In Lolo lettuce most stomata were locked in, unlike the Ross variety.
Observation Red Lolo Ross lettuce has higher adaptive capacity to cadmium than Lolo, according to the authors.

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