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There was a clear trend towards increased soil N supply capacity with manure application, except for the sorghum sudangrass mixed with verticillium-resistant alfalfa.

Numerous studies have shown that there is a positive trend in this seagrass expansion amidst environments dominated by human activities during recent decades (i.e., shellfish harvesting and dredging) [ 16 , 20 ].

The values of p < 0.05 and p < 0.01 were indicative of statistical significance, which were recognized as statistically significant and extremely significant, respectively.

While α-tocopherol hydroquinone amounts exhibited an increasing trend, and no significant differences were detected during de-etiolation. 2.2.

The interaction was highly significant for most two-treatment (temperature level and duration, temperature level and cultivar, temperature level and stage, temperature duration and stage, as well as cultivar and stage) and three-treatment factors (cultivar, stage and temperature level, cultivar, stage and temperature duration, as well as stage, temperature level and duration).

These four variables generally showed an increasing trend with the increase in half-pot fertility ( Figure 5 B,D,F,H).

The malondialdehyde (MDA) content, as a marker of lipid peroxidation, was similar in roots from all treatments ( Table 1 ), while in leaves, an increasing trend in MDA contents was observed, and a significant difference was found in MDA contents in leaves from plants cultivated at the highest Cu concentration.

The analysis of variance results showed that the mean squares of the 50 wheat genotypes were highly significant for all the studied disease parameters during the two growing seasons as shown in Table 2 .

Signals A ( r = −0.505, N = 14, p = 0.065) and B ( r = −0.557, N = 14, p = 0.038) ( Table 2 ) were negatively correlated with silver damage, although for signal A, this was only marginally significant ( Table 2 ).

After the recovery phase, the plants showed a decreasing trend in APX activity. 3.4.

There was a highly significant genotype × water regime (Gen*WR) interaction for the traits gs and Fv/Fm and significant for AWUE and WF ( Table 2 ).

PC3, mainly affected by flowering traits, were highly significant among events and TS trees were significantly different from both TS and C groups ( p < 0.001).

Seed yields of this group showed a trend of opu-CAN > o-CAN > CAN with opu-CAN up to 18% higher in comparison to the uncoated CAN.

This relationship is quite significant, being correlated to the photosynthetic efficiency and biomass production in plants [ 40 , 41 , 42 ].

In the reference creek, the fringe site had an overall increase of 1.50 kg-C m −2 carbon stored at the site as a result of an almost insignificant change in belowground carbon (7.32 to 7.21 kg-C m −2 ), but an increase in aboveground carbon (5.89 to 7.51 kg-C m −2 ).

[ 54 ] observed a decreasing trend in growth parameters of cvs.

Changes in the indol-3-ylmethyl GS content in the “Clapton” leaves were not significant, but an increasing trend was found at all foliar treatment concentrations ( Figure 2 G).

Individual root volume showed an increasing trend in both seasons up to a root age of approximately 37 days of age (i.e., Pr5 in spring and Pr8 in autumn) and the phytomer age effects were confirmed as statistically significant ( p = 0.028 for regression coefficient, Figure 3 C).

Expression levels observed by RNAseq and QRT-PCR were well in accordance, as confirmed by the highly significant linear regression between the two series of data emerging from the comparison across seven gene transcripts, two DNA treatments and three observation time points ( Figure S1 , Pearson’s r = 0.814, P = 1.73 × 10 −10 ). 2.8.

Interestingly, although a higher number of DEGs is reported in nonself-DNA treatment, an exclusive GO enrichment (from downregulated genes) is evident in the self-DNA treatment, hence depicting a clear trend in the self-DNA response at 8 hpt ( Figure 4 ).

In 2015, highly significant differences were observed between the study conditions DS and NS, for GY, NP, SW, PH, and NDF ( Table 2 ).

Although the main effect of soil type was marginally significant, post-hoc tests suggest that seedlings grown in soil types A (71.9 mm), B (72.9 mm), C (73.5 mm), and D (73.9 mm) were significantly taller than those in soil F (66.6 mm) ( Figure 6 b).

Germination likelihood was 40% in heat cracked seeds but only 9% in uncracked seeds, and there was an overall trend for germination likelihood to increase as GA concentration increased, but this relationship between germination and GA concentration was not consistent between the seed coat cracking treatments ( Figure 4 a).

Main effect Se did not significantly affect any of the analyzed physiological traits, while highly significant effects were observed for main effect PEG-2.5.

Highly significant correlations at the 95% level were obtained for the phosphate-P and potassium determinations with the statistical correlation coefficients of 0.9070 and 0.9583, respectively, as shown in Figure 6 a,b.