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Functional profiling analysis exhibited systematic metabolic adaptation, with a clear trend toward enrichment of core biosynthetic processes and microbial coordination.

For all the tested luciferases, their half-lives exhibit a decreasing trend with their enzyme concentrations increasing.

The results of this study showed that the interaction of grazing intensity and month showed a decreasing trend in MBCP.

While no distinct overall pattern was observed, a slight trend emerged, suggesting that glycolysis and fermentation pathways were more abundant in 12-year-old samples, whereas the TCA cycle was more prominent in 4-year-old trees, as shown in Figure 4 .

In contrast, the eastern edge showed highly significant increases, with growth rates mostly between 5 and 10 gC·m -2 ·a - 1, and some areas exceeding 10 gC·m -2 ·a - 1.

Overall, NPP exhibited an increasing trend, with faster growth in the east and slower growth in the west.

Other parameters that showed high correlations included (SDr-SDb)/(SDr+SDb), (SDr-SDy)/(SDr+SDy), SDr/SDb, λr, and SDy, with respective correlation coefficients of 0.86, 0.85, 0.80, 0.61, and 0.59, all at a highly significant level.

The moderately and lowly suitable areas showed an increasing trend under future climatic conditions, whereas the highly suitable areas showed a decreasing trend.

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.

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

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.

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 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).

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.

GO enrichment, protein interaction and co-expression network analysis of GmSUT s Gene Ontology (GO) enrichment analysis of the 12 GmSUT members revealed highly significant enrichment in sucrose-related biological processes and molecular functions ( Figure 10A ).

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

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.

As shown in Figure 8 , the canopy coverage information shows an increasing trend with the advancement of growth stage, and variations in canopy coverage are observed among different varieties of lettuce at different growth stages.

Specifically, AP exhibited a highly significant positive correlation with TSS ( Supplementary Figure S1 ).

Linear regression analysis indicated a positive trend in yield with increasing duration of weed-free periods, whereas a clear negative trend was observed under weed competition.

3.8 Analysis of significantly differential metabolites Based on the criteria of Variable Importance in Projection (VIP > 5) and significance testing (p< 0.05), we identified 16 highly significant differential metabolites from the metabolomic data of red-leaf cotton.

Differential responses of LAI to fertilization and density treatments Under different treatments, the LAI of foxtail millet showed a trend of first increasing and then decreasing as the growth stage progressed ( Figure 6 ).