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For example, although the SOD activity showed an increasing trend in the six populations in response to the heat treatment, the increase in the SY population was almost three-fold higher than that in the YJ population after 10 h of heat treatment.

This study on the tea tree is highly significant for its role in illustrating the evolution of its genome and discovering how the tea plant responds to infestation with tea green leafhoppers will contribute to a theoretical foundation to breed tea plants resistant to insects that will ultimately result in an increase in the yield and quality of tea.

The partially significant diurnal changes observed indicate the need to conduct measurements within a relatively narrow time window, which may be limited to one hour.

For example, with increasing elevation, [C] leaf of Oxytropis ochrocephala first increased and then decreased, while [N] leaf and [P] leaf of the same species showed a trend of general increase in the identified soil organic carbon (SOC), the ratio of SOC to soil total phosphorus (STP), and the mean annual temperature (MAT) as dominant factors (Cao et al., 2020 ).

With increasing elevation, [N] leaf /[P] leaf showed an increasing trend, indicating that the higher the elevation, the more severe the restriction of P element to the growth of P. anserina .

On the whole, the mRNAs of SiNRX1 , SiNRX2 and SiNRX3 showed a trend of first reaching their highest levels and then declining.

The loss-of-function jmj15 mutants impaired the salt responsive gene expression program The developmental phenotype between jmj15-4 and wild type was highly significant different under salt stress ( Figure 3 ).

With the increase in exogenous calcium content, the alleviation effect on the growth of Salix matsudana seedlings under salt stress showed an overall trend of increasing and then decreasing.

PlACLB2 was highly expressed in the red outer-petals that accumulated more acetyl-CoA and anthocyanin than the yellow inner-petals, and showed a positive trend with the spatial and temporal anthocyanin changes in P. lactiflora petals, and it was defined as a typical ACLB subunit with the nucleus and cytoplasm expressions.

There was a highly significant correlation between the expression levels of GPI ( DN21137_c0_g1 ), SUS ( DN7836_c0_g1 ), INV ( DN56_c0_g1 , DN1439_c0_g3 , DN534_c0_g1 , DN16555_c0_g3 , DN534_c0_g2 , and DN1915_c3_g2 ), HK ( DN26120_c0_g1 ), scrK ( DN7502_c0_g2 , DN7502_c0_g1 , and DN6713_c0_g1 ), MPI ( DN8158_c0_g1 ), GMPP ( DN3245_c1_g2 ), GMDS ( DN608_c0_g1 ), GALE ( DN159955_c0_g2 and DN11833_c0_g1 ), ERD ( DN8548_c0_g1 ), and sucrose content.

A study concerning the effects of Trifolium repens stem and leaf extracts on Chinese cabbage and Viola yedoensis Makino seedlings found that SOD activity showed a decreasing trend with increasing extract concentration ( Zhang and Zhang, 2011 ), which differs from our results that showed SOD activity being promoted at low extract concentrations but inhibited at high concentrations.

In response to treatment with aqueous extracts of increasing ratoon age, REL exhibited an overall trend of initially increasing before decreasing.

In the roots, Pro content showed a trend of initially increasing before decreasing with increasing extract concentration and was greater in the 40 g·L −1 treatment compared with that in CK for all ratoon ages, but this was only significant for all concentrations when treated with the aqueous extract of third-year ratoons ( P < 0.05).

Our study demonstrated that SOD activity in the leaves of sugarcane seedlings showed a trend of initially increasing followed by a decrease with increasing extract concentration, whereas that of the roots showed an increasing trend.

As the most significant part of the aboveground biomass (>99%), the arborous layer showed a decreasing trend in the aboveground biomass with the invasion progress.

However, the biomass of the shrub and herbaceous layers showed an increasing trend (shrub significant but herbaceous not), but they only occupied a small proportion (∼1%) of the total biomass.

Coincidentally, the growth of the SOC indices with the recovery time showed a trend more consistent with the ST indices.

As shown in Figure 15 , a highly significant correlation ( R ≥ 0.77) was observed between qRT-PCR (log2 fold change) and RNA-seq (log2 fold change) data, thus verifying the authenticity of the identified core drought-resistant genes from XZSN in this study.

The mean value of leaf length, leaf width, and leaf area of the male parent were all greater than that of the female parent, and the progeny mean value of leaf length, leaf width, and leaf area were all less than the two parents, which showed a trend of small variation.

3 Results 3.1 Yield and yield components The two-year yields of the two varieties showed a trend of first increasing and then decreasing with increasing N, and the highest yield was observed under the N 2 treatment ( Table 2 ).

The nitrogen application rate had a significant or extremely significant positive correlation with setback value and protein content, while there was a significant or extremely significant negative correlation with 1000-grain weight and breakdown value.

The protein content and protein component contents of both varieties showed an increasing trend with increasing N, among which gliadin was the most sensitive protein component to N fertilizer.

The data analysis showed that the amount of residual film had an increasing trend of increasing.

KT, tZR, and tZ in corms showed an increasing trend during the first leaf emergence and maturation stages.

The expression of CKX3 , CKX5 and CKX6 showed a decreasing trend with the sprouting of the second leaf, and UGT75L6 also showed a decreasing trend in the same period. 3.4 Changes in IAA and ABA during the growth cycle of Amorphophallus muelleri The content of IAA in corms was significantly higher at the second leaf sprouting stage, reaching a peak of 2816.94 nmol kg -1 , which was 6.59 times higher than the content at the dormant stage in corms and 10.83 times higher than the content in the leaves (260.08 nmol kg -1 , which was also the peak content in the leaves) during the same period ( Figure 5A ).