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Leaf width showed an increasing trend with GA 3 concentration increased, reaching its maximum average value of 23.17 cm under the A4 treatment (75 mg/L GA 3 ), representing a 12.96% increase compared to no GA 3 application.

A highly significant positive correlation was detected between SOD and cellulose content (0.64**), protein and hemicellulose content (0.60**), flavonoid and total phenol content (0.64**), and CL and hemicellulose content (0.52**).

Differences at p < 0.05 and p < 0.01 were considered significant and highly significant, respectively.

In this study, it was found that the second peak period of enlargement for Z5 and Z6 occurs after 125 DAP, while the enlargement peak period of Z3 is between 95 to 110 DAP, after which the RTR gradually decreases; the enlargement peak period of Z1 was after 110 DAP, with the RTR showing an increasing trend.

Highly significant positive correlations were detected between several leaf gas exchange measurements at morning and biochemical parameters such as E, g s , and A with the content of carotenoids, Ci with leaf starch, A and g s with antioxidant activity ABTS, and A/gs with phenolics.

miltiorrhiza under drought stress all showed a decreasing trend compared with the B-CK group.

3 Results 3.1 Soil salinity To investigate the effects of different irrigation treatments on soil salinity in saline cotton fields ( Figure 2 ), soil salinity in the top layer (0~20 cm) exhibited a gradual decrease across all eight treatments as the cotton growth period advanced, while an increasing trend was observed in the deeper soil layer (40~60 cm).

The correlation matrix and pairwise scatter plots in Figure 3 revealed highly significant positive associations among drought-responsive traits.

The crude fiber and total carbohydrates showed clearly a decreasing trend while crude protein and crude fat increased.

A clear trend was observed in ascorbic acid content, with category A exhibiting the highest concentration (7.81 mg/g), which was significantly greater than the other groups ( p < 0.05).

Correlation between leaf functional traits and yield The contents of chlorophyll a ( R 2 = 0.948 p < 0.01) and b ( R 2 = 0.818 p < 0.01), total chlorophyll ( R 2 = 0.948 p < 0.01), and carotenoids ( R 2 = 0.802 p < 0.01) showed highly significant positive correlations with yield ( Figure 5 ).

Grain yield and other characteristics, such as flag leaf width, finger number, stover yield, and days to 50% flowering, showed highly significant positive correlations.

Comparative insights among different genotypes, colour and stage of maturity in capsicum fruits for Total soluble sugar The total soluble sugar (TSS) content in Capsicum fruits demonstrates significant variation between the immature and mature stages of fruit development, with a clear trend of decreasing TSS levels as the fruit ripens.

In general, under P 0 conditions, soil total N content tended to increase with increasing N application, while total P, available P content, pH, inorganic P content in all forms, and organic P content in all forms showed a decreasing trend.

A one-way ANOVA confirmed a highly significant treatment effect on seedling Na + content ( Figure 2B ).

Overall, the fruit exhibited a decreasing trend in antioxidant activity.

Despite this marginal significance, qRPH11 consistently explained a substantial proportion of phenotypic variance, with PVE values ranging from 13.07% to 33.89% across the two models.

Nitrogen use efficiency indices are influenced by changes in nitrogen scheduling Partial factor productivity of nitrogen (PFP N ) and agronomic NUE showed a decreasing trend as the rate of N application increased.

Specifically, the expression level of CHS gene in YS was approximately 3 times that in GS, exhibiting an extremely significant phenotype-specific difference.

At a spraying distance of 1.2 m, CAT activity showed a decreasing trend with increasing angle.

At spraying angles of 0° and 20°, the control efficiency showed an increasing trend as the spraying distance increased, with the best efficiency observed at 1.2 m, which was significantly higher than at 0.6 m and 0.9 m.

miltiorrhiza showed an increasing trend under D stress compared with the CK group.

Correlation analysis revealed that the blue module, turquoise module, and yellow module had module eigengenes strongly positively correlated with time (Pearson correlation coefficients 0.60, 0.57, and 0.24, respectively; p values all highly significant, Figure 3A ), meaning the genes in these modules showed continuously increasing expression as infection time progressed.

In our study, the correlation between the most dominant families and pH was high and extremely significant.

Clusters C3 (5,113 genes) and C5 (7,023 genes) showed a trend of sustained or delayed upregulation, reaching their highest expression at 48 h.