Abstract
Abstract: Soil salinity is a major environmental stress which adversely affects germination and seedling establishment in a wide variety of crops. However, priming of seeds with different materials may helpful to alleviate the deleterious effects of salinity and enhance germination in salt stress environment. In present experiment we investigated the effects of various priming materials (gibberellic acid, manitol, NaCl and distilled water) on germination and seedling establishment of milk thistle grown at different salinity levels (0, 2.5, 5.0, 7.5 1 and 10.0 dS m). Results revealed that different growth traits (like germination percentage, plumule and radicle length, plumule fresh and dry weight) significantly (p = 0.05) decreased with increasing salinity but maximum 1 reduction was found at 10.0 dS m EC. However, priming of seeds with different materials particularly GA 3 and NaCl and amplification of-amylase activity were useful for alleviating salt stress effects and improving germination and seedling establishment under salt stress. These results warranted further verification for confirmation. Abbreviations Used: FUSR (fraction of utilized seed reservoir), GA (gibberellic acid), GR (germination rate), 3
Abstract from the paper’s OpenAlex record, shown for indexing and research. Copyright remains with the authors or the publisher. Read at the source ↗
The text the model read, with the source record’s inline markup (italics, sub- and superscripts) rendered and its character entities decoded; quote offsets refer to the raw text.
Claims 3
Claim · model-written summary
Increasing salinity significantly reduced germination percentage and seedling growth traits.
- Taxon
- milk thistle
Silybum marianumt0 - Treatment
- increasing salinitye0
- Outcome
- germination percentage, plumule and radicle length, plumule fresh and dry weighte0
- Direction
- decreasede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“germination percentage, plumule and radicle length, plumule fresh and dry weight) significantly (p = 0.05) decreased with increasing salinity”
t0“milk thistle”
Claim · model-written summary
The maximum reduction occurred at 10.0 dS m EC.
- Taxon
- milk thistleSilybum marianumt0
- Outcome
- reductione0
- Direction
- maximume0
- Value
- 10.0 dS m ECe0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“maximum 1 reduction was found at 10.0 dS m EC”
t0“milk thistle”
Claim · model-written summary
Seed priming, especially GA 3 and NaCl, improved germination and seedling establishment under salt stress.
- Taxon
- milk thistleSilybum marianumt0
- Treatment
- priming of seeds with different materials particularly GA 3 and NaCle0
- Outcome
- germination and seedling establishmente0
- Direction
- improvinge0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“priming of seeds with different materials particularly GA 3 and NaCl and amplification of-amylase activity were useful for alleviating salt stress effects and improving germination and seedling establishment under salt stress”
t0“milk thistle”
The same questions in other papers
Gibberellic acid · growth · Silybum marianum (milk thistle)Results agree
1 paper in the same direction as this paper
- positive
salinity · growth · Silybum marianum (milk thistle)Results agree
7 papers in the same direction as this paper
- negative
- negative
- negative
4 papers more in this group
See all 8 papers →seed treatment · growth · Silybum marianum (milk thistle)Results agree
7 papers in the same direction as this paper
- positive
- positive
- positive
4 papers more in this group
See all 8 papers →Claims are grouped by organism, treatment and what was measured or targeted. A paper counts as positive when any of its claims in the group is positive.