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Top-growth RNA concentration decreased during five weeks, more strongly at 22 C than 35 C.

Taxon: Orchard GrassDactylis glomeratat0
Treatment: 22 Ce0
Outcome: Ribonucleic acid concentration of top growthe0
Direction: decreasede0
Comparator: 35 Ce0

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“Orchard Grass”
✓ located verbatim in the source · title, characters 42–55

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“Ribonucleic acid concentration of top growth decreased rapidly during a 5-week sampling period, and the rate and magnitude of decrease was greater in plants grown at 22 C than at 35 C”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 199–382

Title

Growth and Metabolic Changes Occurring in Orchard Grass During Temperature Acclimation

Barton S. Baker; G. A. Jung Botanical Gazette 1972. doi:10.1086/336624

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Observationobservedoriginal resultno effectmeasured

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TAC remained relatively constant in unharvested summer-stressed low-water plants unless rainfall stimulated growth.

Taxon: alfalfaMedicago sativat0
Treatment: low water treatmente0
Outcome: TAC levelse0
Direction: remained relatively constante0

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“TAC levels of nonharvested summer-stressed plants in the low water treatment remained relatively constant unless rainfall occurred in sufficient magnitude to stimulate top growth, in which case a decrease in TAC levels was observed.”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 3020–3252

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“alfalfa”
✓ located verbatim in the source · title, characters 97–104

Title

Effect of water management on forage production and on carbohydrate and nitrogen constituents of alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.).

A. A. Schneiter UA Campus Repository (The University of Arizona) 1973

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Observation dry matter production decreased in summer under high and medium irrigation.
Observation plant height at harvest decreased in summer under high and medium irrigation.
Observation efficiency of water use decreased in summer under high and medium irrigation.
Observation total water utilization per growth period decreased in summer under high and medium irrigation.
Observation Daily water use increased in summer under high and medium irrigation.
Intervention effect After irrigation resumed, dry matter production under low water was not significantly different from medium and high water.
Intervention effect After irrigation resumed, harvest plant height under low water was not significantly different from medium and high water.
Observation Alfalfa stand density declined across three production years.
Intervention effect Water management did not significantly influence stand decline or root distribution.
Observation Root morphology varied among genotypes, largely attributed to genetic expression.
Intervention effect Water stress significantly increased root proline content.
Intervention effect Water stress significantly decreased root arginine content.
Intervention effect Water stress significantly increased root sucrose content.
Intervention effect Water stress did not affect root fructose and glucose levels.
Observation Water-insoluble N was lower at midsummer than at the start and end of the season.
Observation Water-soluble protein was lower at midsummer than at the start and end of the season.
Intervention effect Total available carbohydrates and water-soluble protein decreased after harvest.
Observation Water-insoluble N, soluble N, protein amino acid composition and free sugar did not change during regrowth.
Observation TAC decreased in midsummer under medium and high irrigation each year.

Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultmeasured

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Shading the foliage delayed berry growth.

Taxon: Vitis viniferaVitis viniferae0
Treatment: Shading the foliagee1
Outcome: berry growthe1
Direction: delaye1

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“Grape vines (Vitis vinifera L. cv. Cabernet Sauvignon) were selectively shaded with polypropylene doth to separate the effects of shading fruit from the effects of shading foliage”
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“Shading the foliage led to both a delay and a decrease in berry growth. Leaf shading also affected the timing and the magnitude of sugar accumulation”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 303–452

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Differential effects of shading fruit or foliage on the development and composition of grape berries

Rojas-Lara, B. A.; Morrison, Janice C. Julius Kühn-Institut 2015. doi:10.5073/vitis.1989.28.199-208

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Intervention effect Shading the foliage decreased berry growth.
Association Leaf shading affected the timing and magnitude of sugar accumulation in berries.
Intervention effect Shading reduced total sugar per berry more than it reduced sugar concentration.
Intervention effect Rate of pre-veraison malate accumulation was lower with increasing foliage shade than in fully sun-exposed vines.
Intervention effect Maximum malate content at veraison was lower with increasing foliage shade than in fully sun-exposed vines.
Intervention effect Rate of post-veraison malate loss was highest in fully sun-exposed vines.
Intervention effect Tartaric acid was significantly lower in fruit of heavily shaded vines than in more exposed treatments.
Association Leaf shading was significantly associated with increased potassium concentration in the fruit.
Association Juice pH was more closely correlated with tartaric acid and potassium concentrations than with malate content.
Intervention effect Grapes from heavily shaded vines had the highest pH.
Intervention effect Anthocyanin accumulation was affected more by cluster shading than by leaf shading.
Intervention effect Shaded fruit had significantly less anthocyanin than sun-exposed fruit.

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Drought driven insecticide movement may increase pest behavioral resistance.

Taxon: crop plantse1
Interactor: insect pestse0pest
Outcome: likelihood of insect pests evolving behavioral insecticide resistancee0
Qualifier: increased likelihoode0

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“and that may have two concurrent consequences: 1) reduced pesticide performance, and 2) increased likelihood of insect pests evolving behavioral insecticide resistance.”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 832–1000

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“We hypothesize that more pronounced drought will decrease uptake and increase the magnitude of nonuniform translocation of systemic insecticides within treated crop plants”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 659–830

Title

Does Drought Increase the Risk of Insects Developing Behavioral Resistance to Systemic Insecticides?

Haleh Khodaverdi; Trevor Fowles; Emily Bick; et al. Journal of Economic Entomology 2016. doi:10.1093/jee/tow188

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Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultpositivemeasured

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Zn plus K increased grain Zn by an average 31.3 relative to foliar Zn alone.

Taxon: winter wheatTriticum aestivumt0
Treatment: Zn+Ke0
Outcome: grain Zne1
Direction: increasese0
Value: 31.3e0
Comparator: foliar Zn-only treatmente0

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“average increases following Zn+K (31.3), Zn+P (18.7), and Zn+N (26.5 mg kg-1) treatments relative to that observed in foliar Zn-only treatment”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 1400–1542

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“magnitude of the increase/decrease in grain Zn”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 1283–1329

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“winter wheat”
✓ located verbatim in the source · title, characters 85–97

Title

Effects of Zn, macronutrients, and their interactions through foliar applications on winter wheat grain nutritional quality

Shaoxia Wang; Meng Li; Ke Liu; et al. PLoS ONE 2017. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0181276

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Intervention effect Foliar Zn alone increased grain Zn concentration by 95.7% across six site-years.
Intervention effect Foliar Zn with N increased grain Zn concentration by 101%.
Intervention effect Foliar Zn with P increased grain Zn concentration by 67.9%.
Intervention effect Foliar Zn with K increased grain Zn concentration by 121%.
Association Foliar Zn interacted positively with N for increasing grain Zn at Sanyuan.
Association Foliar Zn interacted positively with K for increasing grain Zn at Yangling.
Association Foliar Zn interacted negatively with P for increasing grain Zn under all tested conditions.
Observation Interaction effects on grain Zn were much smaller than the average treatment increases.
Intervention effect Zn plus P increased grain Zn by an average 18.7 relative to foliar Zn alone.
Intervention effect Zn plus N increased grain Zn by an average 26.5 mg kg-1 relative to foliar Zn alone.
Intervention effect Combining foliar Zn with N, P or K did not adversely affect grain yield and other nutritional quality.
Intervention effect Combined foliar nutrient applications slightly increased grain yield in some cases.
Intervention effect Combined foliar nutrient applications slightly increased grain macronutrient concentrations in some cases.
Intervention effect Foliar Zn lowered grain phytic acid:Zn molar ratios by 52.0% versus control.
Intervention effect Zn plus N lowered grain phytic acid:Zn molar ratios by 53.1% versus control.
Intervention effect Zn plus P lowered grain phytic acid:Zn molar ratios by 43.4% versus control.
Intervention effect Zn plus K lowered grain phytic acid:Zn molar ratios by 63.5% versus control.
Observation These treatment effects were consistent across four years and three soil N rates.
Recommendation The authors prefer including Zn in foliar N or K applications for dietary Zn intake.

Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultpositivemeasured

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Zn plus P increased grain Zn by an average 18.7 relative to foliar Zn alone.

Taxon: winter wheatTriticum aestivumt0
Treatment: Zn+Pe0
Outcome: grain Zne1
Direction: increasese0
Value: 18.7e0
Comparator: foliar Zn-only treatmente0

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“average increases following Zn+K (31.3), Zn+P (18.7), and Zn+N (26.5 mg kg-1) treatments relative to that observed in foliar Zn-only treatment”
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“magnitude of the increase/decrease in grain Zn”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 1283–1329

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“winter wheat”
✓ located verbatim in the source · title, characters 85–97

Title

Effects of Zn, macronutrients, and their interactions through foliar applications on winter wheat grain nutritional quality

Shaoxia Wang; Meng Li; Ke Liu; et al. PLoS ONE 2017. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0181276

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Intervention effect Foliar Zn alone increased grain Zn concentration by 95.7% across six site-years.
Intervention effect Foliar Zn with N increased grain Zn concentration by 101%.
Intervention effect Foliar Zn with P increased grain Zn concentration by 67.9%.
Intervention effect Foliar Zn with K increased grain Zn concentration by 121%.
Association Foliar Zn interacted positively with N for increasing grain Zn at Sanyuan.
Association Foliar Zn interacted positively with K for increasing grain Zn at Yangling.
Association Foliar Zn interacted negatively with P for increasing grain Zn under all tested conditions.
Observation Interaction effects on grain Zn were much smaller than the average treatment increases.
Intervention effect Zn plus K increased grain Zn by an average 31.3 relative to foliar Zn alone.
Intervention effect Zn plus N increased grain Zn by an average 26.5 mg kg-1 relative to foliar Zn alone.
Intervention effect Combining foliar Zn with N, P or K did not adversely affect grain yield and other nutritional quality.
Intervention effect Combined foliar nutrient applications slightly increased grain yield in some cases.
Intervention effect Combined foliar nutrient applications slightly increased grain macronutrient concentrations in some cases.
Intervention effect Foliar Zn lowered grain phytic acid:Zn molar ratios by 52.0% versus control.
Intervention effect Zn plus N lowered grain phytic acid:Zn molar ratios by 53.1% versus control.
Intervention effect Zn plus P lowered grain phytic acid:Zn molar ratios by 43.4% versus control.
Intervention effect Zn plus K lowered grain phytic acid:Zn molar ratios by 63.5% versus control.
Observation These treatment effects were consistent across four years and three soil N rates.
Recommendation The authors prefer including Zn in foliar N or K applications for dietary Zn intake.

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The carbohydrate and enzyme changes were less pronounced in culm tissue than in suspension cultures.

Taxon: Transgenic sugarcane plantst0
Outcome: changes in carbohydrate metabolisme0
Direction: not as pronouncede0
Comparator: suspension culturese0

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“the magnitude of the reduction in enzyme activity and the accompanying changes in carbohydrate metabolism were not as pronounced as in the suspension cultures.”
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“Transgenic sugarcane plants”
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Title

Reduced neutral invertase activity in the culm tissues of transgenic sugarcane plants results in a decrease in respiration and sucrose cycling and an increase in the sucrose to hexose ratio

Debra Rossouw; Jens Kossmann; Frederik C. Botha; et al. Functional Plant Biology 2010. doi:10.1071/fp08210

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Association Reduced neutral invertase activity correlated with increased sucrose.
Association Reduced neutral invertase activity correlated with decreased hexose.
Association Sucrose cycling correlated directly with neutral invertase activity.
Association Total respiration rate correlated directly with neutral invertase activity.
Observation Sucrose synthase activity was upregulated in transgenic plants.
Observation Respiration rates of transgenic lines were significantly lower than untransformed controls.
Method / resource The correlations support cell cultures as a model for sugarcane internodes.

Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultnegativemeasured

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Mutagen treatments decreased the population mean of greengram M2 populations for all four traits studied.

Taxon: greengramVigna radiata var. radiatae0
Treatment: mutagense2
Outcome: population meane1
Direction: decreasee1

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“Three does each of gamma rays (200, 400 and 600Gy), ethyl methane sulphonate (0.2, 0.4 and 0.6%), nitrosoguanidine (0.005, 0.010, and 0.015%), maleic hydrazide (0.01, 0.02 and 0.03%) and in combination were administered to the seeds of two greengram varieties, Sujata and OBGG-52”
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“In M2 generation, population mean got decrease with increase in variance for all the four traits studied”
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“the magnitude of such changes varied with mutagens, their doses and the variety”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 390–469

Title

Mutation-induced Polygenic Variability and Early Prediction of High Yielding Mutants in Greengram [Vigna radiata (L.) wilczek]

Tapas Ranjan Das; Bhabendra Baisakh International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences 2018. doi:10.20546/ijcmas.2018.701.386

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G8 had greater salt-induced increases in MDA and Na than other genotypes.

Taxon: Brassica junceaL. Czern. & Coss.Brassica junceat0
Material: genotype G8e0
Outcome: MDA and Na contente0
Direction: increasee0
Comparator: other genotypese0

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“the magnitude of increase in MDA and Na content and decrease in SL plant−1, A leaf−1, LAI, P N, gs, Chl content and NR and ATP-S activities in genotype G8 was more than that of other genotypes.”
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“Brassica junceaL. Czern. & Coss.”
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Morphological and physio-biochemical characterization ofBrassica junceaL. Czern. & Coss. genotypes under salt stress

Manzer H. Siddiqui; Firoz Mohammad; M. Nasir Khan Journal of Plant Interactions 2008. doi:10.1080/17429140802227992

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Intervention effect NaCl decreased shoot length, leaf area and leaf area index at both stages.
Intervention effect Salt stress accumulated proline and glycinebetaine in all genotypes.
Observation The increases in Pro and GB were greater in G8 than in other genotypes.
Intervention effect Salt stress increased MDA and Na content in all genotypes.
Intervention effect Salt stress decreased chlorophyll, nitrogen and potassium content and K/Na ratio in all genotypes.
Intervention effect Salt stress decreased NR and ATP-S activities in all genotypes.
Observation G8 had greater salt-induced decreases in shoot length, leaf area and LAI than other genotypes.
Observation G8 had greater salt-induced decreases in photosynthesis, stomatal conductance and chlorophyll than other genotypes.
Observation G8 had greater salt-induced decreases in NR and ATP-S activities than other genotypes.

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Soil organic carbon, available N and K2O declined after two crop cycles, less so at the highest fertilizer level.

Taxon: maizeZea mayst0
Treatment: 200:100:50 kg N:P2O5:K2O/hae0
Outcome: organic carbon, available N and K2Oe0
Direction: declinee0

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“After two crop cycle the organic carbon, available N and K2O was decline and the magnitude of decrease was less with highest fertility level 200:100:50 kg N:P2O5:K2O/ha applied plots”
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“maize (Zea Mays L.)”
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Title

Response of fertility level on different inbred line of maize (Zea Mays L.) productivity in Bihar

M. K. Singh; Shambhu Prasad; YK Singh; et al. International Journal of Chemical Studies 2019

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Intervention effect The 160:80:40 fertilizer level produced significant grain yield of 27.38 q ha-1.
Intervention effect The 160:80:40 fertilizer level produced significant stover yield of 93.21 q ha-1.
Observation The 160:80:40 fertilizer level yielded net return of Rs125158 ha-1.
Observation The 160:80:40 fertilizer level yielded a B:C ratio of 3.15.
Association BML-6 had significantly higher yield of 32.10 q ha-1 and was at par with CML161.
Association BML-6 had higher net return of Rs148689 ha-1, at par with CML161.
Association BML-6 had a higher B:C ratio of 3.80.
Intervention effect Nitrogen uptake was significant through the 160:80:40 fertility level and at par with 200:100:50.
Intervention effect Phosphorus uptake was significant through the 160:80:40 fertility level and at par with 200:100:50.
Intervention effect Potassium uptake was significant through the 160:80:40 fertility level and at par with 200:100:50.
Association BML 7 removed significantly more nitrogen, 144.20 kg ha-1, comparable to BML 6 and CML 161.
Association BML 7 removed significantly more phosphorus, 27.43 kg ha-1.
Association BML 7 removed significantly more potassium, 174.84 kg ha-1.
Observation Available soil P2O5 exceeded its initial value and was highest under the 200:100:50 rate.
Association Soil organic carbon, available N and K2O declined less with VQL1.
Association Available soil P2O5 was above its initial value and highest with VQL1.

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