Claim · model-written summary
Under drought, intact yam bean plants had a significant decrease in leaf-relative-water content.
- Taxon
- yam beant0
- Treatment
- intact plants (I+D)e0
- Outcome
- leaf-relative-water content (LRWC)e1
- Direction
- decreasee0
Not reportedComparator
Verbatim
t0“yam bean (Pachyrhizus ahipa (Wedd.) Parodi)”
e0“a significant decrease was observed in the intact plants (I+D)”
e1“leaf-relative-water content (LRWC) was maintained in the pruned plants (P+D), a significant decrease was observed in the intact plants (I+D)”
Title
Tuber-pod competition and drought responses in yam bean (Pachyrhizus ahipa (Wedd.) Parodi)
Ousmane Diouf; Harold Roy‐Macauley; Daniel Annerose Agritrop (Cirad) 1998
Other claims from this paper (4)
- Intervention effect Drought decreased stomatal conductance, photosynthesis and transpiration rates in both intact and pruned yam bean plants.
- Intervention effect Under drought, pruned yam bean plants maintained leaf-relative-water content.
- Mechanism Maintenance of leaf-relative-water content in pruned plants may result from mobilization of water within the tuber or redistribution from roots to leaves in the absence of pods.
- Recommendation The authors conclude that inflorescence pruning improves yam bean adaptation to drought.