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Cu or Zn deficiency intensified foliar symptoms in wheat.

Taxon: WheatTriticum aestivume1
Treatment: Cu or Zn deficiencye4
Outcome: intensification of foliar symptomse4
Direction: increaseinferrede4

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“Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) var. Sonalika was grown in purified sand in complete nutrient solution (normal)”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 9–117

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“The effects of either Cu or Zn deficiency viz., intensification of foliar symptoms, decrease in biomass, leaf Cu/Zn, seed yield and starch content were increased further in combined deficiency of Cu and Zn”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 706–911

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Deficiency of manganese is alleviated more by low zinc than low copper in wheat

Neena Khurana; Chitralekha Chatterjee Communications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis 2000. doi:10.1080/00103620009370612

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Intervention effect Mn deficiency decreased the biomass, Mn concentration and chlorophyll of wheat.
Intervention effect Mn deficiency decreased sugars, Hill reaction activity and acid phosphatase activity in wheat.
Intervention effect Mn deficiency increased peroxidase and polyphenol oxidase activity in wheat.
Intervention effect The Mn deficiency effects were mitigated to a variable extent when Mn deficiency was combined with Cu and/or Zn deficiency.
Intervention effect Cu or Zn deficiency decreased biomass, leaf Cu/Zn and seed yield of wheat.
Intervention effect Cu or Zn deficiency decreased starch content of wheat.
Intervention effect Combined Cu and Zn deficiency further increased the effects of either Cu or Zn deficiency in wheat.
Intervention effect Cu or Zn deficiency stimulated acid phosphatase in wheat leaves.
Intervention effect Cu or Zn deficiency decreased polyphenol oxidase and carbonic anhydrase activity in wheat leaves.
Intervention effect Combined Cu and Zn deficiency further aggravated the acid phosphatase stimulation and the decreases in polyphenol oxidase and carbonic anhydrase activity in wheat leaves.
Mechanism The changes reveal a synergism between Cu and Zn in wheat.

Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultnegativemeasured

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Chilling increased electrolyte leakage in chickpea leaves during seed filling.

Taxon: ChickpeaCicer arietinume0
Organ / stage: leavese1
Treatment: The chilling conditionse1
Outcome: electrolyte leakagee1
Direction: increasee1
Comparator: warm conditions (control)e2

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e0
“Chickpea is sensitive to cold conditions”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 9–49

e1
“The chilling conditions resulted in the increase in electrolyte leakage, the loss of chlorophyll, the decrease in sucrose content and the reduction in water status in leaves”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 1136–1309

e2
“another set was maintained under warm conditions (control)”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 1076–1134

Title

Low Temperature Effects during Seed Filling on Chickpea Genotypes (Cicer arietinum L.): Probing Mechanisms affecting Seed Reserves and Yield

H. Nayyar; G. Kaur; S. Kumar; et al. Journal of Agronomy and Crop Science 2007. doi:10.1111/j.1439-037x.2007.00269.x

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Intervention effect Chilling caused loss of chlorophyll in chickpea leaves during seed filling.
Intervention effect Chilling decreased sucrose content in chickpea leaves during seed filling.
Intervention effect Chilling reduced leaf water status in chickpea, more in the macrocarpa type.
Intervention effect Cold conditions decreased total plant weight of chickpea to the same level in both types.
Intervention effect Cold conditions decreased seed size, seed weight and pods per plant, most in the macrocarpa chickpea type.
Intervention effect Cold conditions decreased the rate and duration of seed filling in the macrocarpa chickpea type.
Intervention effect Cold conditions decreased harvest index in the macrocarpa chickpea type.
Intervention effect Cold conditions reduced seed starch, protein, fat and crude fibre accumulation, more in the macrocarpa type.
Intervention effect Cold conditions reduced seed protein fraction accumulation.
Intervention effect Chilling decreased sucrose accumulation in chickpea seeds.
Intervention effect Chilling decreased seed starch synthase, sucrose synthase and invertase activity levels.
Intervention effect Cold conditions lowered calcium, phosphorus and iron in stressed chickpea seeds.
Intervention effect Cold conditions lowered phenylalanine, tyrosine and threonine in stressed chickpea seeds.
Intervention effect Cold conditions lowered tryptophan, valine and histidine in stressed chickpea seeds.

Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultpositivemeasured

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Cold resistant agent II enhanced the rate of fertilization and seed set ratio of heading-stage rice.

Taxon: riceOryza sativae1
Organ / stage: heading stagee1
Treatment: cold resistant agent Ⅱe1
Outcome: rate of fertilization and seed set ratioe1
Direction: enhancede1

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“Spray of cold resistant agent Ⅱ to heading stage rice in a mimic late autumn coldness model also resulted in significant cold resistant capability,enhanced the rate of fertilization and seed set ratio,as well as lessened the decrease of yield”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 175–417

Title

Effect of Application of Cold Resistant Agents on Paddy Rice

Xun Li Life Science Research 2001

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Intervention effect Cold resistant agent I markedly decreased spring cold injury on paddy rice seedlings in a model system.
Intervention effect Cold resistant agent II gave significant cold resistance to heading-stage rice in a late autumn cold model.
Intervention effect Cold resistant agent II lessened the decrease of rice yield under the late autumn cold model.

Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultmeasured

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Boron deficiency and excess changed the types of aroma compounds.

Taxon: TOMATOSolanum lycopersicumt0
Treatment: lack and surplus of Be1
Outcome: types of aroma compoundse0
Direction: changede0
Comparator: normal treatmente2

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e0
“the types of aroma compounds were changed.”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 557–599

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“TOMATO”
✓ located verbatim in the source · title, characters 60–66

e1
“both lack and surplus of B could decrease the chlorophyll content,the SOD and POD activity”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 170–260

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“The sugar-acid ratio and vitamin C content in the fruit treated by lack and surplus of B were lower than the normal treatment.”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 315–441

Title

EFFECTS OF BORON APPLICATION ON YIELD AND FLAVOR QUALITY OF TOMATO FRUIT

Meilan Li Journal of Nuclear Agricultural Sciences 2009

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Intervention effect Boron deficiency and excess decreased chlorophyll content and SOD and POD activity.
Intervention effect Boron deficiency and excess increased leaf MDA content.
Intervention effect Boron deficiency and excess decreased tomato yield.
Intervention effect Boron deficiency and excess lowered fruit sugar acid ratio and vitamin C content.
Intervention effect Boron deficiency and excess decreased fruit lycopene, total phenolics and total flavonoid content.
Recommendation The authors concluded that proper boron supports high tomato yield and quality.

Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultmeasured

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Retained branches had only a small influence on total plant 14 C assimilation.

Taxon: cotton plantGossypium hirsutumt0
Treatment: remaining monopodial branchese1
Outcome: total 14 C assimilation of plante0

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e0
“there was a small influence on total 14 C assimilation of plant”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 321–384

e1
“the remaining monopodial branches could decrease the translocation of 14 C assimilates into main stem and fruiting branches at flowering and fruiting stage”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 547–702

t0
“cotton plant”
✓ located verbatim in the source · title, characters 124–136

Title

Effect of remaining monopodial branches on the ~(14)C-assimilation,partitioning of ~(14)C assimilates and lint yield of the cotton plant

Xue Sun Xibei zhiwu xuebao 2000

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Intervention effect Retained monopodial branches significantly reduced 14 C assimilation of leaves on the main stem and fruiting branches.
Observation Leaves on monopodial branches had higher 14 C assimilation.
Intervention effect Retained monopodial branches decreased assimilate translocation into the main stem and fruiting branches.
Intervention effect Retained monopodial branches reduced bolls on fruiting branches.
Intervention effect Retained monopodial branches had no remarkable effect on number of bolls per hectare.
Intervention effect Retained monopodial branches had no remarkable effect on boll weight.
Intervention effect Retained monopodial branches had no remarkable effect on lint percent.
Intervention effect Retained monopodial branches had no remarkable effect on lint yield.

Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultpositivemeasured

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Plastic film mulching increased assimilate transport and export.

Taxon: riceOryza sativae0
Treatment: PFMCe0
Outcome: transportation and export rate of assimilate in stem and sheathe0
Direction: highere0
Comparator: MC(control)e0

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“PFMC rice exhibited more tillers,smaller percentage of productive tillers,slower decrease in chlorophyll content and root bleeding intensity after flowering,and higher transportation and export rate of assimilate in stem and sheath than those of MC(control) rice”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 315–577

Title

Effects of Cultivation Methods on Growth Characteristics and Yield Formation in Upland Rice(Zhonghan 3) and Paddy Rice(Wuxiangjing 99-8)

Jianchang Yang Jiangsu nongye xuebao 2006

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Intervention effect Plastic film mulching produced more tillers than moist cultivation.
Intervention effect Plastic film mulching reduced productive tiller percentage.
Intervention effect Plastic film mulching slowed decline of chlorophyll and root bleeding after flowering.
Observation Bare cultivation reversed the plastic film mulching results.
Intervention effect Root-shoot ratio, active grain filling period and harvest index were lower under plastic film and bare cultivation than moist cultivation.
Intervention effect Mean grain filling rates were greater under plastic film and bare cultivation.
Intervention effect Plastic film mulching significantly lowered grain yield and spikelets to LAI ratio in upland rice.
Intervention effect Plastic film mulching and moist cultivation did not differ significantly in paddy rice.
Intervention effect Bare cultivation produced the lowest grain yield in both rice cultivars.
Observation Upland rice had more productive tillers and faster grain filling than paddy rice.
Observation Upland rice had faster chlorophyll and root bleeding decline.
Observation Upland rice had a shorter active grain filling period.
Observation Upland rice had lower assimilate transport and export.
Observation Upland rice had lower spikelets to LAI ratio, harvest index and yield.

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Coefficient A increased abruptly to a maximum with biological time in Populus deltoides.

Taxon: Populus deltoidesPopulus deltoidest0
Organ / stage: growth stagee0
Outcome: coefficient Ae0
Direction: increased abruptlye0

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“With increasing τ, the coefficient A, the reciprocal of which means the asymptote of yield (=wρ) at a given growth stage, increased abruptly to a maximum value and then tended to decrease gradually to a constant level”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 925–1142

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“Populus deltoides”
✓ located verbatim in the source · title, characters 71–88

Title

Growth analysis of the competition–density effect in non-self-thinning Populus deltoides and Populus × euramericana plantations

Li Xue; Akio Hagihara Journal of Forest Research 2008. doi:10.1007/s10310-008-0070-z

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Coefficient A increased abruptly to a maximum with biological time in Populus × euramericana.

Taxon: Populus × euramericanaPopulus ×canadensist0
Organ / stage: growth stagee0
Outcome: coefficient Ae0
Direction: increased abruptlye0

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“With increasing τ, the coefficient A, the reciprocal of which means the asymptote of yield (=wρ) at a given growth stage, increased abruptly to a maximum value and then tended to decrease gradually to a constant level”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 925–1142

t0
“Populus × euramericana”
✓ located verbatim in the source · title, characters 93–115

Title

Growth analysis of the competition–density effect in non-self-thinning Populus deltoides and Populus × euramericana plantations

Li Xue; Akio Hagihara Journal of Forest Research 2008. doi:10.1007/s10310-008-0070-z

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High whitefly levels were associated with an increase in the percentage of cantaloupe fruits with sooty mold

Taxon: cantaloupeCucumis melo var. cantalupoe0
Treatment: High levels of whitefly adults and immaturese1
Interactor: Bemisia argentifoliiBemisia argentifoliie0pest
Outcome: percentage of fruits with sooty molde1
Direction: an increasee1

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“A range of infestation levels of the whitefly Bemisia argentifolii Bellows & Perring were established across experimental field plots of cantaloupe by varying insecticide treatments to evaluate the relationships between whitefly density and crop yield and quality”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 0–263

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“High levels of whitefly adults and immatures were associated with significant reductions in fruit yield, a decrease in fruit size, and an increase in the percentage of fruits with sooty mold”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 265–455

Title

Density–Yield Relationships and Economic Injury Levels for Bemisia argentifolii (Homoptera: Aleyrodidae) in Cantaloupe in Texas

URBANO NAVA-CAMBEROS; DAVID G. RILEY; MARVIN K. HARRIS Journal of Economic Entomology 2001. doi:10.1603/0022-0493-94.1.180

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Root/shoot ratio decreased with increasing nutrient solution concentration.

Taxon: Lactuca sativaLactuca sativae1
Material: var. acephalae1
Treatment: an increase in nutrient solution concentratione2
Outcome: root/shoot ratioe3
Direction: decreaseinferrede3

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“Lactuca sativa L. var. acephala grown in a floating system”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 661–719

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“Marketable fresh yield, total dry biomass, leaf area index, macroelement (N, P, K and Mg) concentrations and nitrate and total chlorophyll contents increased in response to an increase in nutrient solution concentration”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 730–949

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“while the opposite trend was observed for root/shoot ratio and glucose, fructose, starch, total carbohydrate and protein contents”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 951–1080

Title

Nutrient solution concentration and growing season affect yield and quality of Lactuca sativa L. var. acephala in floating raft culture

Carlo Fallovo; Youssef Rouphael; Elvira Rea; et al. Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture 2009. doi:10.1002/jsfa.3641

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Intervention effect Marketable fresh yield, total dry biomass and leaf area index increased with nutrient solution concentration.
Intervention effect Macroelement (N, P, K and Mg) concentrations in lettuce leaves increased with nutrient solution concentration.
Intervention effect Nitrate and total chlorophyll contents increased with nutrient solution concentration.
Intervention effect Glucose, fructose and starch contents decreased with increasing nutrient solution concentration.
Intervention effect Total carbohydrate and protein contents decreased with increasing nutrient solution concentration.
Association Lettuce grown in spring had lower yield and growth than lettuce grown in summer.
Association Lettuce grown in spring had higher carbohydrate content than lettuce grown in summer.
Association Lettuce grown in spring had lower nitrate content than lettuce grown in summer.
Recommendation The authors recommend nutrient solution concentrations of 37 and 44 mequiv L-1 for spring and summer, respectively, for this lettuce system.

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