Exogenous application of sulfur-rich thiourea (STU) to alleviate the adverse effects of cobalt stress in wheat

BMC Plant Biology

Table 1 Effect of foliar applied STU on the morphological indices of the wheat cultivars under cobalt stress conditions

Cultivars	Treatments	Shoot fresh weight (mg/g FW)	Root fresh weight (mg/g FW)	Shoot dry weight (mg/g FW)	Root dry weight (mg/g FW)	Shoot length (cm)	Root length (cm)	Leaf area (cm 2)
FSD-2008	Control	4.82 ± 0.2ab	0.40 ± 0.01abc	0.62 ± 0.02ab	0.17 ± 0.01ab	61.1 ± 2.1ab	16.3 ± 0.1b	30.4 ± 0.1abcd
	STU	5.28 ± 0.2ab	0.45 ± 0.01ab	0.7 ± 0.02a	0.20 ± 0.01ab	65.6 ± 1.1ab	20.6 ± 1.1ab	34.2 ± 0.1ab
	Co	3.64 ± 0.2 cd	0.29 ± 0.02de	0.45 ± 0.03bc	0.08 ± 0.01c	45.3 ± 1.1 cd	10 ± 0.4c	22.8 ± 1.0d
	STU + Co	5.65 ± 0.2a	0.48 ± 0.014a	0.75 ± 0.03a	0.25 ± 0.02a	70.6 ± 1.6a	24.3 ± 1.3a	38.4 ± 1.5a
Zincol-2016	Control	4.31 ± 0.1bc	0.36 ± 0.01 cd	0.49 ± 0.01bc	0.14 ± 0.01bc	53.3 ± 2.5bc	14.5 ± 0.6b	25.8 ± 0.5 cd
	STU	4.87 ± 0.2ab	0.38 ± 0.01bc	0.58 ± 0.04ab	0.18 ± 0.02ab	58.3 ± 2.3abc	17.6 ± 1.4b	30.1 ± 1.1bcd
	Co	3.06 ± 0.1d	0.24 ± 0.02e	0.40 ± 0.01c	0.07 ± 0.01c	34.3 ± 0.7d	8.33 ± 0.1c	14.9 ± 1.3e
	STU + Co	5.15 ± 0.2ab	0.41 ± 0.01abc	0.68 ± 0.02a	0.19 ± 0.02ab	63.6 ± 3.1ab	20 ± 1.3ab	33.0 ± 0.1abc

STU Sulfur rich thiourea, CO Cobalt stress, Difference among the letters after the values (means ± standard error of three replicates) shows a significant difference across the mean at p < 0.05 according to the Tukey HSD test

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