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By delaying the time of cutting, an interesting trend appears, whereby the number of stems had a decreasing tension from 90.07 to 82.59.

This means that even in the case of the highest nitrogen application (N180), the increase in above-ground biomass (DM t ha −1 ) yield growth did not show a decreasing trend.

However, Du’s research shows an increasing trend in precipitation during the growing season on the Mongolian Plateau and increased vegetation coverage, which may lead to some discrepancies with the aforementioned studies [ 25 ].

CAT activity showed an increasing trend throughout the treatment period, indicating that it is a key enzyme of the C. oleifera flower bud antioxidant defence system.

At the same time, highly significant Fe accumulation in the fruiting body of Battarea phalloides and Artemisia lerchiana , compared to lichen, should be highlighted ( Table 2 , Figure 3 B).

MSL had a moderately significant and positive correlation with SFW (r p = 0.71 **), SDW (r p = 0.76 **), RDW (r p = 0.73 **), and TDM (r p = 0.64 **).

rigidum buckwheat tended to accumulate the compounds indistinctly in roots or shoots, depending of the buckwheat accession, there was a clear trend in the four buckwheat accessions to accumulate the compounds in the roots when co-grown with P. oleracea , as DA, P-CA, LU, OR, and VIT were significantly accumulated in the roots in three of the four buckwheat accessions tested when P. oleracea was present in the medium.

However, the sorbitol content and AR activities did not show an increasing trend with sorbitol concentrations enhancing.

A decreasing trend in the NBI of both hybrids was also associated with an increase in the anthocyanin index. 2.3.

AMMI Analysis The result of the AMMI analysis showed that the effects of genotype (G), environment (E), and their interaction were highly significant ( Table 2 ).

Terpenes showed a trend of first increasing and then decreasing levels in potted Paeonia ostii ‘Fengdan’, with the largest amount released from 12:00 to 15:00.

As shown in Figure 14 , under rPLM stress, the content of S element in rice significantly increased ( p < 0.05), reaching its highest at 100 mg/L, an increase of 65.14% compared with the control; the content of Ca and Mg showed a decreasing trend, reaching their lowest at 100 mg/L, a decrease of 29.42% and 23.68%, respectively, compared with the control.

However, the activity of POD in rice treated with gPLM shows an increasing trend.

Under gPLM stress, the content of S element in rice only significantly increased at 50 mg/L ( p < 0.05); the content of Ca showed a trend of first increasing then decreasing, with the highest at 10 mg/L, and significantly decreased at 50, 100 mg/L ( p < 0.05); the content of Mg first decreased then increased, with the highest at 100 mg/L and the lowest at 20 mg/L.

Both the α-diversity (expressed as number of OTUs) and the β-diversity (expressed with the Whittaker index) within the field-collected samples did not differ among sites, although for the latter the p -value turned out to be near significance (P α-diversity = 0.194; P β-diversity = 0.0638; Table S9 in the Supplementary Materials ).

Other variables that were close to being significant in both Oaxaca and Chiapas, were producer age group and the age of the seed stock used (see Table 2 ).

[ 23 ] found that the relationship between the summer NDVI and air temperature for an alpine meadow across the Tibetan Plateau showed a decreasing trend.

In contrast, during the spring, we found an increasing trend in the relationship between the NDVI and temperature, suggesting that, in the spring, the relationship between temperature changes and vegetation growth may have become more closely linked.

When seed samples harvested from each of the Australian national lupin program’s annual routine field screening test plots of narrow-leafed lupin were tested for CMV seed transmission to seedlings, differences in CMV seed transmission rates were highly significant and stable between individual germplasm accessions, breeding lines, and cultivars [ 43 ].

In recent years, there has been an increasing trend in consumer preferences for more natural and “clean label” products, leading the food industry to the investigation and evaluation of natural compounds as potential antioxidant and antimicrobial agents [ 9 ].

Quite significant differences are observed among Cas9+ plants in disease resistance, morphological traits and aromatic profile are probably due to intra-variety variability of commercial seeds as starting material for obtaining CNs and to independent origin of each regenerant plant from CNs following genetic transformation.

Ammonium N in Overlying Water As can be seen from Figure 3 , the ammonium N (NH 4 + -N) concentration was significantly ( p < 0.05) higher in the N-applied treatments than in the control treatment in the overlying water and showed an overall increasing trend followed by a decreasing trend thereafter.

pH The pH of the overlying water showed an overall trend, first increasing and then decreasing.

The NO 3 − -N concentration of each treatment had no significant change in SF1 and showed a trend of first increasing and then decreasing ( Figure 4 b).

Nearly all regarded traits that were tested separately showed highly significant differences in their community-weighted means (CWMs) between the samples of seeds and seedlings.