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The GWAS revealed a highly significant association of resistance with PB on chromosomes 6 and 18, for the IBS 333 and IBS 327 isolates, respectively.

Over the course of the months, both tree height and ground diameter showed an increasing trend with month ( Figure 2 ), in which the tree height and ground diameter in June and August were significantly higher than those in November 2020 ( p < 0.05).

Soil Characteristics According to Table 1 , the distance to the shoreline and month had highly significant effects on soil water content, salinity, and pH, but not on soil bulk density ( Table 1 ).

However, previous studies have reported a decreasing trend or no significant changes in fungal community diversity with increasing altitude [ 43 ].

Variation in Carob Pod and Seed Traits between Populations All of the studied traits showed highly significant differences between the 25-studied carob populations ( Table 1 ).

The bacterial Shannon index did not show an obvious trend along the altitude gradient and was only significantly different from other altitudes at 340 m ( p < 0.05).

Although this was not statistically significant, the proximity of the p -value to the cutoff of 0.05 showed a trend toward the significant impact of NP type on the glycated BSA intensity.

Across the globe, there is a clear trend of leaf characteristics escalating in tandem with rising temperatures [ 18 , 19 ], which implies that temperature plays a pivotal role in the diversification of leaf traits [ 20 ].

LA was largest in the sclerophyllous evergreen broad-leaved forests and smallest in the alpine scree sparse vegetation, showing a decreasing trend with elevation, while LT first decreased and then increased with the elevation of the vegetation belt.

As shown in Figure 1 c, there was a decreasing trend, which gradually decreased from 7 to 21 DAS and then increased at 28 DAS; however, the differences among the treatments were not significant. 2.2.

Elevated CO 2 did not significantly affect the Sobs index, Shannon index, or Simpson index under both N0 and N100, while the Ace index had a decreasing trend.

Under eCO 2 , these correlations became even stronger, with seed ( p < 0.001), shoot ( p < 0.01), and root ( p < 0.01) N accumulation showing highly significant positive relationships with total biomass ( Figure 6 A–C).

As the branching grade increased, the average rhizome length showed a trend of first increasing and then decreasing ( Figure 1 d).

Analysis of variance revealed that differences caused by genotype and environment were highly significant and suitable for QTL mapping ( Table 3 ). 2.3.

Regarding plant height at the center of gravity, distinct differences were observed among different irrigation treatments, with an overall trend of W2 > W3 > W1.

However, after treatment with 2.5 mM Cd, the BR, GA, and JA in both WT and OE2 lines exhibited an increasing trend, and significant differences were observed, although CK showed no difference ( Figure 10 a–d).

The growth stages showed a decreasing trend for the extraction of Cd with traditional extractants, which was S4 < S3 < S2 < S1, as indicated in Figure 4 , Figure 5 , Figure 6 and Figure 7 .

With the single-step extraction methods, the assessment of Cd showed an increasing trend, as follows: HNO 3 (0.50 mg/kg) > EDTA (0.48 mg/kg) > ABDTPA (0.42 mg/kg) > DTPA (0.38 mg/kg) > NH 4 AOc (0.37 mg/kg) > NaNO 3 (0.24 mg/kg) > CaCl 2 (0.15 mg/kg) in the SCL-NC soil at the seedling growth stage.

Conversely, when the base medium is constant, increasing the NAA concentration leads to a decreasing trend in both root number and length, with the maximum root number and length observed at an NAA concentration of 0.1 mg/L Figure 3 .

Fv and NPP exhibited an increasing trend (0.18 vs. 0.43), while Fb showed a decreasing trend, with a value of −0.16.

SRL and SRA showed an increasing trend, while RTD showed a decreasing trend ( Table 4 ). 3.4.

Conversely, AK displayed a decreasing trend followed by an increase, with the lowest values observed in MQ.

Furthermore, E′/E, FW, and PD showed an increasing trend from species to cultivar populations.

Soil Ammonium Nitrogen (NH 4 + -N) Figure 5 reflects that soil NH 4 + -N of all treatments showed a trend of first increasing and then decreasing.

An extremely significant positive correlation existed between the total chlorophyll content, carotenoids, and F o , F m , and F v .