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N addition and their interaction all exerted significant direct effects on mixed pasture yield, among which their interaction had the largest path coefficient (1.249), reaching a highly significant level.

Results The results showed that soil respiration rate exhibits a distinct unimodal curve, reaching its maximum during the maize flowering stage, and showed a highly significant positive correlation with soil temperature.

Soil respiration exhibited distinct seasonal dynamics, with an overall trend similar to that of soil temperature.

The core pathways related to terpenoid biosynthesis and secondary metabolism remained significant after FDR correction, while pathways with marginal significance were filtered out.

The results revealed a clear trend, the explanatory power of the principal components increased progressively with longer supplemental lighting across the time-point groups.

Through principal component analysis (PCA) ( Figure 2A ), the samples exhibited a clear trend of intergroup separation in the PCA space, indicating that the rootstock grafting treatment had a significant impact on melon gene expression.

According to the threshold defined in Section 2.5, this result is considered marginally significant, indicating a statistical trend rather than a significant difference at α = 0.05.

Discussion Our results suggest a numerical trend toward higher rubber yield and stability in the rainy season, which may be partly attributed to elevated precipitation and temperature.

Correlation analysis As shown in Figure 6 , cotton yield exhibited highly significant positive correlations with the maximum quantum efficiency of PSII (Fv/Fm), net photosynthetic rate (Pn), and stomatal conductance (Gs).

For Ci, monocropping treatments showed an increasing trend with planting density, particularly in 2025.

When significant or highly significant differences were detected, Wilcoxon rank-sum tests were used to compare trait values between pairs of environments.

The application of organic fertilizer enhanced soybean yield and exerted a highly significant positive influence on soil ions and the SQI, while concurrently inducing a highly significant negative effect on pH, EC, and soil alkalization parameters ( Figure 9C ).

This study found that compared with the control (CK), the HCO 3 - content and sodium adsorption ratio (SAR) in the 0–10 cm and 10–20 cm soil layers were significantly reduced under organic fertilizer (T3) treatment, while they showed an increasing trend in the 20–30 cm soil layer.

Combined analysis of variance in marketable vegetable yield indicated highly significant G x E interaction, and yields of the genotypes across locations ranged from 22.34 t/ha (AVAM2413) to 43.88 t/ha (AVAM2404) ( Table 4 ).

Multiple aroma components exhibited highly significant or significant positive correlations with aroma quality, off-odor, industrial usability, and hay-like aroma.

One-way ANOVA indicated that the difference in evodiamine content among treatments was not statistically significant (F = 2.349, p = 0.054), although a marginal trend was observed.

The protein-to-starch ratio showed an increasing trend from mealy to glassy kernels, but differences among classes were not statistically significant ( Figure 6C ; p = 0.097, η 2 = 0.17).

As nitrogen application rates increased, the dry matter allocation ratio between leaves and stems showed a decreasing trend from the PSS to PBS periods, though the differences were small.

The highly significant negative correlation between oleic and linoleic acids (r = -0.88; Figure 4 ) indicates their competitive relationship via the FAD2 desaturase pathway, where oleic acid acts as the substrate for linoleic acid synthesis.

Although the latter three differences were not significant, an overall trend of comprehensively promoting vegetative growth was observed, indicating that this ratio is conducive to optimizing source-sink relationships and enhancing photosynthetic production potential.

Non-inoculated plants showed a trend toward increasing glucose and fructose levels with rising salinity.

grandiflorus seedlings showed a decreasing trend after 48 h of high-temperature treatment, whereas the content of GA 3 exhibited an increasing trend.

The results revealed highly significant effects of cultivar, temperature, time, and all their interaction terms on each of the seven physiological traits, including relative electrolyte conductivity (REC), leaf water content (LWC), malondialdehyde (MDA) content, proline content, soluble sugar content, peroxidase (POD) activity, and catalase (CAT) activity.

The content of phenolamides in stem tissue from 06:00 to 12:00 and then to 18:00 showed a trend of first increasing and then decreasing in all clusters except for cluster 2.

Results Environment, genotype, and genotype × environment interaction had highly significant effects on grain yield.