Evidence map›Paper›PMID 32117384›Full record

ArticleFrontiers in plant science2020

Proline Biosynthesis Enzyme Genes Confer Salt Tolerance to Switchgrass (

Cong Guan, Xin Cui, Hua-Yue Liu, Xue Li, Meng-Qi Li, Yun-Wei Zhang

Open access · goldAbstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Frontiers in plant science, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 30 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
30citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
7.2field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

30 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 63 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Abiotic Stress in Crop Production.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023
    Pooled it
  2. Article
  3. Article
  4. Article
  5. Article
  6. Fulvic acid-functionalized FeBMC plant biology · 2026
    Article
  7. Article
  8. Review
  9. Article
  10. Proline Tagging for Stress Tolerance in Plants.International journal of genomics · 2025
    Review
  11. Article
  12. Tolerance Mechanisms of Olive Tree (Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024
    Review
  13. Article
  14. Article
  15. Article
  16. Article
  17. Review
  18. Article
  19. Review
  20. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Cong GuanCollege of Grassland Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China.
Xin CuiCollege of Grassland Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China.
Hua-Yue LiuCollege of Grassland Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China.
Xue LiCollege of Grassland Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China.
Meng-Qi LiCollege of Grassland Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China.
Yun-Wei ZhangCollege of Grassland Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China.
China Agricultural University · CNBeijing Academy of Science and Technology · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Understanding the regulation of proline metabolism necessitates the suppression of two

Indexed as

polyaminesprolinePvP5CS1 and PvP5CS2salt stressswitchgrass

Identifiers

PMID32117384
PMCPMC7033549
OpenAlexW3005541950

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.