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In contrast, the explanatory power of the refined spatial structure showed a decreasing trend.

Variance Decomposition of Community Beta Diversity The study found that as the scale of the investigation increased, the explanatory power of the pure environmental impact on beta diversity showed an increasing trend.

Interestingly, the expression patterns of most CsaRL genes, excluding CsaRL1b and CsaRL4c , under PEG-6000 treatment showed a trend of first increasing and then decreasing.

In both sites, the beans’ AGDM was affected (at value p ≤ 0.05) by the tillage systems, which meant there were highly significant differences between the IRWH and CON practices for the total AGDM ( Table 4 b).

mongolicus at different shrub ages also showed a decreasing trend with the increase in shrub age and the young-aged shrubs, and the two reached a significant level ( p < 0.01).

mongolicus showed an increasing trend with the increase in shrub age.

The leaf P and C:P ratio are the most sensitive to changes in shrub age, and have an indicative significance for the growth and population dynamics of A. mongolicus .

Effects of Experimental Warming and Increased Precipitation on ANPP community , ANPP sedge , ANPP graminoid , ANPP forb , Species and Phylogenetic Diversity, and Enviromental Variables There were significant main effects of experimental warming on ANPP sedge , ANPP forb , species richness, Shannon, PD, MNTD, species composition, and phylogenetic composition; significant or marginally significant main effects of increased precipitation on ANPP community , species composition, and phylogenetic composition; and significant interactive effects of experimental warming and increased precipitation on species composition and phylogenetic composition, respectively ( Table 1 and Table 2 ).

The literature does not show a clear trend in the direction of the gradient.

An increasing trend in plant height was observed with P sources (SSP, RP, and DAP) with a combination of acidified organic amendments (LAOM and AOM) along PSB application.

Vertically, as the soil depth increased, the FRLD of each treatment showed a decreasing trend.

The study indicated a strong effect of environment on these traits but also concluded an increasing trend in amounts of AX accounting for 21% of the total variations (although not a main breeding trait) due to the effect of intensive breeding [ 82 ].

Highly significant positive correlations were observed between biomass and chlorophyll a, chlorophyll b, and total chlorophyll.

Throughout the 8-day stress experiment, the leaf integrity index displayed a decreasing trend over time in all the treatment groups, excluding the control group (CK).

Nevertheless, Volkamer lemon plants increased DW under higher Fe concentrations in the nutrient solution, while the other two citrus rootstocks did not show a clear trend.

Regarding the fruit volume, a clear trend was observed, where it decreased with the increasing severity of deficit irrigation.

In the acid-modified biochar group, it was found that the emergence rate showed a trend of decreasing first and then increasing with the increase in the acid-modified biochar amount.

The LAI of spinach in Figure 4 showed a decreasing trend with the increase in the addition of common biochar, and the leaf area index of A3 was lower than that of CK.

Agronomic Response to Salinity Stress The analysis of variance displayed that there was a highly significant difference between salinity treatments as well as the assessed wheat genotypes over both growing seasons ( Table 4 ).

The SNPs with highly significant associations in the block were identified and used as a measure of candidate genes between each locus because of their preference in association studies. 4.3.2.

In this analysis, the significance levels were set at p < 0.05 to indicate statistically significant differences between treatments and p < 0.01 to indicate highly significant differences. 4.5. qRT-PCR Validation To verify the RNA-seq data’s reliability and quantify the expression of an AP2-ERF transcription factor in flax under saline stress, the SYBR Green I PCR master mix kit (TaKaRa, Maebashi, Japan) was used in the qRT-PCR reactions as in our previous reports [ 70 ].

Both the sucrose synthase decomposition direction (SS-CD) activity and acid invertase (AI) activity showed a decreasing trend, and compared to bagging, non-bagging significantly increased their activity ( Figure 5 c,d). 2.4.2.

Effects of Non-Bagging and Bagging on Sugar and Acid Accumulation of Fuji Apple Fruit The soluble sugar content generally shows an increasing trend ( Figure 2 a) in both bagged and non-bagged fruit.

The change in phosphorus (P) content in fruits showed a trend of decrease–increase–decrease.

The average TSS showed an increasing trend throughout maturation but was inversely related to elevation.