Claim · model-written summary
Soaking increased time to maturity.
- Taxon
- dwarf beant0
- Treatment
- soaking treatmentt1
- Outcome
- time required for the plants to reach maturitye0
- Direction
- increasee0
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Verbatim
e0“an increase in the time required for the plants to reach maturity”
t0“dwarf bean”
t1“The soaking treatment resulted in a progressive decrease in growth and weight of the plants produced and an increase in the time required for the plants to reach maturity”
Title
Structural and Metabolic After-Effects of Soaking Seeds of Phaseolus
William Marshall Bailey Botanical Gazette 1933. doi:10.1086/334342
Other claims from this paper (13)
- Intervention effect Aerated soaking reduced germination rate, even after 8 hours.
- Intervention effect Soaking for 7 to 9 days nearly eliminated germination.
- Intervention effect Soaking further reduced mature plant production.
- Intervention effect Soaking progressively decreased plant growth and weight.
- Intervention effect Soaking produced thinner and more compact leaf blades than in untreated plants.
- Observation Stems from soaked seeds had greater phloem thickness and phloem to xylem ratio.
- Intervention effect Adding dilute calcium nitrate did not prevent the deleterious effect of soaking on germination and growth.
- Intervention effect Soaking increased reducing sugars, starch, total carbohydrates and solid matter in mature plants.
- Intervention effect Soaking decreased total, organic and amino-acid nitrogen and proteins.
- Intervention effect Sprouted seeds soaked previously had a higher respiratory carbon dioxide production rate.
- Intervention effect Soaking without aeration decreased catalase activity.
- Intervention effect Soaking with aeration initially decreased catalase activity slightly.
- Intervention effect After the initial decrease, aerated soaking considerably increased catalase activity.