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Sunflower genotypes differed in drought tolerance.

Taxon: sunflowerHelianthus annuuse0
Outcome: tolerance to droughte0
Direction: differente0

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“sunflower genotypes had different tolerance to drought”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 1468–1522

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Evaluating Foliar Responses of Sunflower Genotypes under Drought Stress

Veli Pekcan; Göksel Evci; M. Ibrahim Yilmaz; et al. International Journal of Scientific Research in Science and Technology 2015. doi:10.32628/ciba11

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Intervention effect Drought reduced sunflower leaf area by up to 75%.
Intervention effect Earlier drought reduced sunflower leaf number by about 60%.
Intervention effect Some sunflower lines increased leaf chlorophyll content by about 40-50% under drought.
Intervention effect Other sunflower lines decreased leaf chlorophyll content by about 30% under drought.
Association Sunflower foliar drought responses differed by genotype and whether stress was applied early or late.
Recommendation The authors propose using more drought-tolerant sunflower genotypes to develop tolerant hybrids.

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Ethephon has been reported to promote or inhibit plant drought tolerance.

Taxon: Plantt0
Treatment: ethephon treatmente0
Outcome: drought tolerancee0
Direction: promotion or inhibitione0

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“either promotion or inhibition of drought tolerance by ethephon treatment was reported”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 416–502

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“Plant Drought Tolerance”
✓ located verbatim in the source · title, characters 33–56

Title

Effects of Ethephon Treatment on Plant Drought Tolerance(Review)

XU Li-xin Acta Agrestia Sinica 2013

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Association The reported drought response to ethephon depends on concentration, species, cultivar, developmental stage, and application method.

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Drought tolerance and disease resistance differed among the six rice varieties

Taxon: riceOryza sativae0
Outcome: drought-tolerance and resistance to diseasee6
Qualifier: were differente6

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“six drought-tolerant rice varieties”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 54–89

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“the drought-tolerance and resistance to disease of six varieties were different”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 245–324

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Screening test on new drought-tolerance rice varieties.

Luo QunChang; Chuanhua Chen; Yuanmeng Chen; et al. Guangxi nongye kexue 2009

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Observation Rice variety P116 had stable yield across two tested locations
Observation Rice variety P116 had better yield components and drought tolerance
Association Rice variety P116 had a lower panicle blast infection rate
Observation Rice variety P175 had the strongest drought tolerance
Observation Rice variety P175 had the highest yield in Xingbin District with severe drought
Association Rice variety P175 had a lower panicle blast infection rate
Observation Rice variety P117 had the highest yield in Wuxuan County
Intervention effect Rice variety P117 yield was higher than the control in Xingbin District
Observation Rice variety P117 had bad resistance to panicle blast with the highest infection rate
Recommendation P116 could be tested on a large scale and extended in drought districts
Recommendation P175 could be tested further and extended gradually in drought districts
Recommendation P117 should be tested and demonstrated further in districts without rice blast

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Populus euphratica shows moderate drought tolerance but suffers under extreme drought.

Taxon: P. euphraticaPopulus euphraticae0
Outcome: tolerancee0
Direction: moderatee0

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“P. euphratica* shows moderate tolerance through transient structural and carbon investment but suffers under extreme drought”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 1920–2044

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Effects of Leaf Nutrients, Non-Structural Carbohydrates, and Microanatomical Structure on Biomass of Three Tree Species Under Drought Stress

Zhaoqun Ma; Xi Zhang; Mengyun Lei; et al. Biology 2026. doi:10.3390/biology15080629

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Handan 00-4015 had strong drought tolerance but poor yield stability.

Taxon: Winter WheatTriticum aestivumt0
Material: Handan 00-4015e0
Outcome: strong drought tolerance but poor stable yielde0

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“Handan 00-4015 has strong drought tolerance but poor stable yield”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 646–711

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“Winter Wheat”
✓ located verbatim in the source · title, characters 55–67

Title

Research on Drought Tolerance and Yield Property of 11 Winter Wheat Cultivars(Strains)

Bai Yulong Anhui nongye kexue 2011

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Observation Zhongmai 12 combined drought tolerance, yield, and yield stability.
Observation Cangmai 6002 combined drought tolerance, yield, and yield stability.
Observation Cangmai 6003 combined drought tolerance, yield, and yield stability.
Observation Linhan 536 had better drought tolerance and stable yield.

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Cultivated and wild barley varied considerably in drought tolerance.

Taxon: barleyHordeum vulgaree0
Material: cultivated and wild barley subspeciese0
Outcome: genotypic variability in drought tolerancee0

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“Both cultivated and wild barley subspecies displayed considerable genotypic variability in drought tolerance”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 724–832

Title

Screening of Worldwide Barley Collection for Drought Tolerance: The Assessment of Various Physiological Measures as the Selection Criteria

Kangfeng Cai; Xiaohui Chen; Zhigang Han; et al. Frontiers in Plant Science 2020. doi:10.3389/fpls.2020.01159

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Intervention effect Drought significantly reduced growth across barley genotypes.
Intervention effect The two drought conditions did not differ significantly in seedling performance reduction.
Observation Screening identified 18 genotypes with contrasting drought tolerance.
Association Tolerant genotypes had less shoot biomass reduction than sensitive ones under water deficit.
Association Shoot biomass findings correlated positively with the large-scale screen.
Association Water relations, photosynthesis, and osmotic adjustment differed between contrasting genotypes.
Association Those physiological traits correlated highly with barley seedling growth.
Method / resource Sap osmolality was identified as a suitable drought-screening criterion.
Method / resource Youngest fully expanded leaf relative water content was identified as a suitable drought-screening criterion.

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Highly drought-sensitive grasslands had shorter response durations, fewer anomalies, better recovery and greater drought tolerance.

Taxon: Grasslandse0
Outcome: shorter response durations, fewer abnormalities, better recovery abilities and better drought tolerancee0
Direction: bettere0
Comparator: high sensitivity to flash droughtse0

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“Grasslands with a high sensitivity to flash droughts had shorter response durations, fewer abnormalities, better recovery abilities and better drought tolerance.”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 1523–1684

Title

Productivity response characteristics of different grasslands to flash drought and their relationship with drought tolerance

Xiaoxu Liu; Xiaoxu Liu; Xiaomin Liu; et al. Ecological Indicators 2024. doi:10.1016/j.ecolind.2024.111761

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Association Flash drought affected grassland NPP most in summer.
Association Flash drought affected grassland RUE most in spring.
Association More frequent and intense flash droughts had greater vegetation impacts.
Observation Flash drought caused moderate negative NPP and RUE anomalies in over 90% of grasslands.
Observation The longest NPP response lag was two months.
Observation NPP anomalies persisted for nearly two months after flash drought.
Observation RUE was more sensitive to flash drought than NPP.
Observation RUE responded within ten days.
Observation RUE fell by more than 80%.
Association Large NPP and RUE values were not associated with increased drought tolerance.
Observation Desert grasslands were the most drought tolerant.
Observation Meadow grasslands were least drought tolerant and at highest flash drought risk.

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European germplasm has terminal drought avoidance characteristics but may lack drought tolerance.

Taxon: yellow lupint0
Material: European germplasme0
Outcome: terminal drought-avoiding characteristicse0
Qualifier: may lack drought tolerancee0

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“European germplasm has many of the terminal drought-avoiding characteristics required in a productive Mediterranean ideotype, but may lack drought tolerance”
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“yellow lupin (Lupinus luteus L.)”
✓ located verbatim in the source · title, characters 63–95

Title

Ecogeography of the Old World lupins. 1. Ecotypic variation in yellow lupin (Lupinus luteus L.)

J. D. Berger; K. N. Adhikari; D. Wilkinson; et al. Australian Journal of Agricultural Research 2008. doi:10.1071/ar07384

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Glomus isolates differed in lettuce drought tolerance effects.

Taxon: lettuce plantsLactuca sativae0
Interactor: arbuscular-mycorrhizal fungal isolatee0symbiont
Outcome: tolerancee0
Direction: differede0

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“The tolerance of lettuce plants (Lactuca sativa L. cv. Romana) to drought stress differed with the arbuscular-mycorrhizal fungal isolate”
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Effects of arbuscular-mycorrhizal glomus species on drought tolerance: physiological and nutritional plant responses

J M Ruiz-Lozano; R Azcon; M Gomez Applied and Environmental Microbiology 1995. doi:10.1128/aem.61.2.456-460.1995

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Authors hypothesize that B73 stalk-lodging resistance may trade off with drought tolerance.

Taxon: maizeZea mayst0
Material: B73e0
Outcome: drought tolerancee0
Direction: at the expense ofe0
Comparator: stalk-lodging resistancee0

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“stalk-lodging resistance in B73 was acquired at the expense of drought tolerance”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 1746–1826

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“maize”
✓ located verbatim in the source · title, characters 45–50

Title

Unravelling distinct proteome changes in two maize inbreds with contrasting stalk‐lodging resistance upon drought

Rocío C. Arce; Albert Muñoz-Blanxer; Camila Sánchez-Retuerta; et al. Frontiers in Plant Science 2026. doi:10.3389/fpls.2026.1830066

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Intervention effect Drought caused extensive proteomic reprogramming in B73.
Intervention effect EA2024 proteome was unaltered under drought.
Observation There were 481 differentially accumulated proteins between inbreds across conditions.
Observation One hundred proteins differed under well-watered conditions but converged under drought.
Observation A third of convergent B73 proteins related to upstream photosynthesis machinery.
Observation There were 381 differentially accumulated proteins between inbreds under drought.
Association B73 over-accumulated proteins for cofactors, vitamin metabolism and signaling under drought.
Association B73 under-accumulated proteins linked to downstream photosynthesis and biosynthesis.
Observation Authors interpret the convergent response as a partial B73 shift toward EA2024 baseline.
Association Authors associate divergent B73 response with impaired energy, metabolism and signaling.

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