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3 Results 3.1 Relative water content and relative conductivity in leaves The relative water content of all treated leaves showed a decreasing trend ( Figure 2 ).

Furthermore, this study found that although there is a highly significant positive correlation between H 2 O 2 and POD in the leaves, there was no apparent correlation with the regulatory gene GmPOD , indicating that POD did not play a major role in the formation of this homeostasis.

Compared with the CK, F 0 increased under the T1 treatment, whereas F m showed a decreasing trend; under T2, F 0 increased further and F m declined markedly.

Overall, the expression levels of genes in these clusters showed a decreasing trend.

As shown in Supplementary Table 3 (Differential metabolite regulation annotated to the isoflavone biosynthesis pathway), metabolites such as pisatin, naringenin, genistein, and 6′′-O-malonyldaidzin exhibited an overall upregulation trend under drought stress, whereas (−)-medicarpin, vestitone, and glyceollin III showed a decreasing trend within the isoflavonoid biosynthesis pathway.

Broadleaf forests show a weak trend of advancement, with a rate of 0.18 days/year and a cumulative advancement of 12.6 days in 20 years.

The development trend of vegetation in Xinjiang, southeastern Gansu, Ningxia, and northern and central Shaanxi showed a delay, with a significant trend in Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia, Gansu, and Ningxia.

The interannual variation in vegetation phenology in China from 2001 to 2020 showed different degrees of fluctuation and a clear trend.

In contrast, silique length appears to be influenced by more genes or exhibits stronger environmental interactions, with BnaAOG1.A10 and BnaAOG1.C09 showing a clear trend effect in regulating SL.

Student’s T −test was used to assess significance, with p < 0.05 considered significant and p < 0.01 highly significant.

And the reduction in DMA was likely related to the shortened growth period, as they exhibited a highly significant positive correlation.

The high-temperature days and frequency of heavy rain events (especially the period from 10 days before silking to R6 which are the main formation period of ear kernel number and 1000-grain weight) showed an increasing trend with delayed sowing ( Figures 3C–G ).

Deep root index was not significantly affected by water treatment alone, whereas genotype and genotype × water interaction effects were highly significant, indicating a strong genotype-dependent pattern of root depth allocation.

When the GABA concentration was higher than 0.5 mM, most mineral element concentrations in the roots showed a decreasing trend. 3.4 Mineral element concentrations in stem Compared with the control, the concentrations of P, K, Fe, Cu, and B in the stems of B-deficient seedlings were significantly reduced, while the concentrations of other mineral elements showed no significant differences ( Figure 4 ).

This led to the proposal that several CESA isoforms compete for the third position on the primary wall cellulose synthase complex that might be significant for fine tuning microfibril deposition during plant development (Desprez et al., 2007 ).

The plastids of mycorrhizal roots are active in carotenoid and apocarotenoid metabolism, which may be significant for symbiosis due to their role in the biosynthesis of the hormones gibberellin, ABA and strigolactone (Walter et al., 2010 ).

The epidermal cells are also often the first cells to confront invading pathogens, where ROS production is an early response, so it may be significant that it is also in these cells that the transmission of information from the PM by ROS diffusion would be more likely to take place because of a lower background concentration of H 2 O 2 .

As far as fruit DW is concerned, no significant differences were detected in iodine-treated plants, whereas in control plants, not treated with iodine, a small trend toward a slight increase can be observed comparing, respectively, the 10 and 20 mM nitrate levels ( Figure 4G ).

Transgenic line GRS47 accumulated substantial Gol and Raf, and lesser, but still highly significant levels of Sta.

Again their differences to neighboring genotypes (e.g., Mexican CIMMYT durum cultivars) were not clearly significant.

The exception was Rumex , which showed a decreasing trend of LMF with irradiance.

A total of 71 genes were identified as highly significant (α = 0.01) differentially expressed between both tissues (Table S1 ).

The majority of studies surveyed suggest that plants are able to respond to defoliation by altering their silica uptake, and indeed we observed an overall trend of silica induction following defoliation ( Figure 4 ).

( 2010 ) found a decreasing trend in the magnitude and increase in the rate (smaller time constant τ) of photosynthetic acclimation across climatic gradient from northern boreal to temperate zone.

Total leaf H 2 O 2 analysis showed a trend similar to that of in situ detection.