Claim · model-written summary
Cinnamic acid most strongly inhibited watermelon radicle and plumular axis lengths.
- Taxon
- watermelon
Citrullus lanatuse0 - Treatment
- Cinnamic acide0
- Outcome
- radicle and plumular axis lengthse0
- Direction
- greatest inhibitinge0
- Comparator
- vanillic acide0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Verbatim
e0“Cinnamic acid had the greatest inhibiting effect on the radicle and plumular axis lengths of watermelon while vanillic acid had the least.”
Title
Yang Guang-cha Shanghai nongye xuebao 2013
Other claims from this paper (8)
- Intervention effect Phenolic acids inhibited watermelon seed germination increasingly with concentration.
- Intervention effect At 800 mg/L cinnamic acid decreased watermelon seed germination by 52.6% versus control.
- Intervention effect At 800 mg/L vanillic acid decreased watermelon seed germination by 37.9% versus control.
- Intervention effect Vanillic acid least inhibited watermelon radicle and plumular axis lengths.
- Association Seedling root dehydrogenase activity declined with phenolic acid concentration.
- Association Seedling root SOD activity declined with phenolic acid concentration.
- Association Seedling root POD activity rose with phenolic acid concentration.
- Association Seedling root PPO activity rose with phenolic acid concentration.