Claim · model-written summary
Increasing salinity significantly reduced relative water content.
- Taxon
- alfalfa
Medicago sativat0 - Treatment
- Increased salinitye0
- Outcome
- relative water contente0
- Direction
- decreasee0
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Verbatim
e0“Increased salinity resulted in a significant decrease in shoot and root biomass, relative water content and water potential.”
t0“alfalfa”
Title
Effects of salinity and nitrogen source on growth and nitrogen fixation in alfalfa
Rachid Serraj; Jean‐Jacques Drevon Journal of Plant Nutrition 1998. doi:10.1080/01904169809365525
Other claims from this paper (10)
- Intervention effect Increasing salinity significantly reduced alfalfa shoot biomass.
- Intervention effect Increasing salinity significantly reduced alfalfa root biomass.
- Intervention effect Increasing salinity significantly reduced water potential.
- Observation Salt inhibited shoot growth more than root biomass.
- Intervention effect Nitrate-fed plants were slightly less affected by salt than nitrogen-fixing plants.
- Intervention effect Salt substantially inhibited nitrogenase activity.
- Association Inhibition of nitrogenase activity was significantly correlated with inhibition of shoot growth.
- Association Inhibition of nitrogenase activity was significantly correlated with total nitrogen contents.
- Intervention effect Salt exposure significantly increased critical oxygen pressure of nodules.
- Mechanism Salt decreased oxygen diffusion permeability of alfalfa nodules.