Abstract
Abstract Effects of boric, indole-3-acetic, gibberellic, succinic and fumaric acids, and water extract from onion bulbs on onion pollen germination and tube growth were studied. Boric acid stimulated pollen germination and tube growth at 100 mg/liter but was toxic at 200 mg/liter. Indole-3-acetic acid slightly increased pollen germination and tube elongation at 0.05 mg/liter, but inhibited pollen tube growth at 200 mg/liter. Gibberellic acid not only enhanced germination percentage, but the higher concentrations also increased the pollen tube lengths. Succinic and fumaric acids stimulated germination, but pollen tubes burst at the higher concentrations. At 200 mg/liter of fumaric acid no germination of pollen grains was observed, but with 25 ml of bulb extract in the culture medium, germination and tube growth were stimulated. Pollen tubes developed abnormally at higher concentrations.
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Claims 12
Claim · model-written summary
Boric acid stimulated onion pollen germination and tube growth at 100 mg/liter.
- Taxon
- Allium Cepa
Allium cepat0 - Treatment
- Boric acide0
- Outcome
- pollen germination and tube growthe0
- Direction
- stimulatede0
- Value
- 100 mg/litere0
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Verbatim
e0“Boric acid stimulated pollen germination and tube growth at 100 mg/liter”
t0“Allium Cepa”
Claim · model-written summary
Boric acid was toxic at 200 mg/liter.
- Taxon
- Allium Cepa
Allium cepat0 - Treatment
- Boric acide0
- Outcome
- toxice0
- Value
- 200 mg/litere0
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e0“Boric acid stimulated pollen germination and tube growth at 100 mg/liter but was toxic at 200 mg/liter”
t0“Allium Cepa”
Claim · model-written summary
Indole-3-acetic acid slightly increased pollen germination and tube elongation at 0.05 mg/liter.
- Taxon
- Allium Cepa
Allium cepat0 - Treatment
- Indole-3-acetic acide0
- Outcome
- pollen germination and tube elongatione0
- Direction
- slightly increasede0
- Value
- 0.05 mg/litere0
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Verbatim
e0“Indole-3-acetic acid slightly increased pollen germination and tube elongation at 0.05 mg/liter”
t0“Allium Cepa”
Claim · model-written summary
Indole-3-acetic acid inhibited tube growth at 200 mg/liter.
- Taxon
- Allium Cepa
Allium cepat0 - Treatment
- Indole-3-acetic acide0
- Outcome
- pollen tube growthe0
- Direction
- inhibitede0
- Value
- 200 mg/litere0
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Verbatim
e0“Indole-3-acetic acid slightly increased pollen germination and tube elongation at 0.05 mg/liter, but inhibited pollen tube growth at 200 mg/liter”
t0“Allium Cepa”
Claim · model-written summary
Gibberellic acid enhanced pollen germination percentage.
- Taxon
- Allium Cepa
Allium cepat0 - Treatment
- Gibberellic acide0
- Outcome
- germination percentagee0
- Direction
- enhancede0
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e0“Gibberellic acid not only enhanced germination percentage”
t0“Allium Cepa”
Claim · model-written summary
Higher gibberellic acid concentrations increased pollen tube lengths.
- Taxon
- Allium Cepa
Allium cepat0 - Treatment
- Gibberellic acide0
- Outcome
- pollen tube lengthse0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Qualifier
- higher concentrationse0
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e0“Gibberellic acid not only enhanced germination percentage, but the higher concentrations also increased the pollen tube lengths”
t0“Allium Cepa”
Claim · model-written summary
Succinic acid stimulated germination.
- Taxon
- Allium Cepa
Allium cepat0 - Treatment
- Succinice0
- Outcome
- germinatione0
- Direction
- stimulatede0
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e0“Succinic and fumaric acids stimulated germination”
t0“Allium Cepa”
Claim · model-written summary
Fumaric acid stimulated germination.
- Taxon
- Allium Cepa
Allium cepat0 - Treatment
- fumaric acidse0
- Outcome
- germinatione0
- Direction
- stimulatede0
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e0“Succinic and fumaric acids stimulated germination”
t0“Allium Cepa”
Claim · model-written summary
Pollen tubes burst at higher concentrations of succinic and fumaric acids.
- Taxon
- Allium Cepa
Allium cepat0 - Treatment
- higher concentrationse0
- Outcome
- pollen tubes burste0
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e0“pollen tubes burst at the higher concentrations”
t0“Allium Cepa”
Claim · model-written summary
At 200 mg/liter fumaric acid, pollen grains failed to germinate.
- Taxon
- Allium Cepa
Allium cepat0 - Treatment
- 200 mg/liter of fumaric acide0
- Outcome
- no germination of pollen grainse0
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e0“At 200 mg/liter of fumaric acid no germination of pollen grains was observed”
t0“Allium Cepa”
Claim · model-written summary
Bulb extract at 25 ml stimulated germination and tube growth.
- Taxon
- Allium Cepa
Allium cepat0 - Treatment
- 25 ml of bulb extracte0
- Outcome
- germination and tube growthe0
- Direction
- stimulatede0
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Verbatim
e0“with 25 ml of bulb extract in the culture medium, germination and tube growth were stimulated”
t0“Allium Cepa”
Claim · model-written summary
Higher concentrations caused abnormal pollen tube development.
- Taxon
- Allium Cepa
Allium cepat0 - Treatment
- higher concentrationse0
- Outcome
- Pollen tubes developed abnormallye0
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Verbatim
e0“Pollen tubes developed abnormally at higher concentrations”
t0“Allium Cepa”
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