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NR relative expression depicted an increasing trend with progression in growth; however, this increase was more evident in leaves as compared to peel and pulp.

The differences between organ types were large, but so too were intra-organ differences; differences due to organs proved to be significant for hyoscyamine, while they were only marginally significant for scopolamine.

In South African savanna, simulation experiments showed that the population dynamics of wood plants ( Grewia flava ) also demonstrated a positive trend in the scenario of an increase in extreme precipitation by 30–40% and a negative trend for a decrease by 5–15% [ 9 ].

Notably, the root biomass allocation of SG plants showed an increasing trend with W1, W2, W3, and W4 treatments, while the reproductive biomass allocation of SG plants showed a decreasing trend ( Figure 3 b).

The Effects of Extreme Precipitation on Organ Size In the control, plant height, as well as leaf, branch, and seed number of SG and AG plants showed an increasing trend during the life-history, and these traits differed significantly between SG and AG plants at the reproductive stage, i.e., AG > SG ( Figure 2 a–h).

The mitotic index (MI) reduction was found to be statistically highly significant for all treatments at 6 h, with minimum values of 2.1 ± 36 and 2.5 ± 0.7% for the 200 base fluid dilution and 200 g/mL ZnO-NP nanofluid, respectively).

The main phytochemical properties displayed a decreasing trend over the maturity throughout the development of fruit parts.

The colonisation of treated trees was apparent at the first assessment point (45 WAT), with stem lesions clearly apparent, a highly significant decrease in health score and a small but significant increase in plant mortality.

Further correlation analysis of soil dominant phylum and genera bacteria indicated that Methylobacterium , Brevundimonas , Sphingobium , and Acinetobacter had significant or highly significant negative correlation with Actinobacteria, Chloroflexi and Acidobacteria and significant or highly significant positive correlation with Proteobacteria, which indicated that Methylobacterium , Brevundimonas , Sphingobium , and Acinetobacter were the key species regulating the soil ecology of Phoebe bournei seedling soil ( Table 4 ).

Based on the SMA results, we have observed that the overall fit for total phenolic contents to PC1 showed an increasing trend with the elevation of TEs (β = 1.400225), where both species share a common slope ( Table S6 ).

It is reported that coumarins dominated in celery ( Table 2 ), additionally, based on the SMA model a positive trend regarding PC1 in celery (β = 44.71397) can be noticed, while in parsley, it occurred as a weak negative trend based on the slope (β = −1.5026377).

The Zn content showed an increasing trend in green beans, cabbage and tomato, but this change was only significant in green beans and cabbage in the lighter textured soils, while in tomato, it was significant in sand and silt soils.

We detected highly significant main effects of either shade or planting, such that seedlings of pure planting resulted in higher biomass for both unfertilized and fertilized seedlings, higher leaf-specific weight for only unfertilized, and higher production for only fertilized ones, compared with mixed planting.

The analysis of variance of all traits under study showed highly significant differences among the 26 genotypes ( Table 1 and Table 2 ).

Differences of treatment groups from the control group were mostly highly significant ( Tables S1 and S2 ).

The interaction between vermicompost and NPK treatments was highly significant.

[ 19 ], a statistically highly significant decrease in the soil S content caused by reduction of SO 2 emissions in the long-term field experiments in Czech Republic from 33 mg/kg in 1981 to 8 mg/kg in 2017.

Generally, highly significant differences were observed for the chlorophyll and carotenoids parameters with increasing PG rates and microbial inoculations, and thus, the results occurred in the descending order of PG4 > PG3 > PG2 > PG1 for different phosphogypsum rates and T3 > T2 > T4 > T1 for different microbial inoculations.

[ 34 , 35 ] reported a clear trend for endemic species to be smaller in size and produce fewer seeds than widespread congeners and evidence that individual populations of endemic species have a greater temporal stability than that of widespread species.

Moreover, in GS1, CTR + N caused a slightly significant increase in NHI without any significant effect on the other parameters, suggesting that in an organic system and under a regular growing season, soil N fertilization with blood meal is a major determining factor for the other parameters [ 17 ].

The effects of the Hd1 allele types were highly significant for days to heading in all four environments, explaining 51.4–65.8% of the phenotypic variation.

When they used maximum width (W), leaf length (L), petiole length (Lp) and dry weight of leaves (DML) as single variables in the regression equations were not as closely associated with total leaf area, although their R 2 values were also highly significant.

As regards the SOD activity, results obtained at the V12 stage already revealed a highly significant increase in the SOD activity level in untreated (CT) cultivars, which was reduced in all other treatments (NP, FF, NP + FF).

The analysis of variance for frond and root traits showed highly significant differences among the clones ( Table 2 ).

Trading in local plant genetic diversity for securing better yields should be mentioned as a negative trend in Bulgarian rural home gardens.