Correlative Transcriptome and Metabolome Analysis of the Maize Shoot Response to Salt Stress.

Wangdan Xiong, Lingxin Zhang, Yujian Wang, Guo Wei, Kaikai Zhu, Kai Zhao, Zhenying Wu

Abstract read

In one paragraph

Article in Plants (Basel, Switzerland), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

0numbers the graph read from it

0cells of the map it votes in

1citing papers in PubMed

–field-weighted citation impact

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

1 citing paper in PubMed.

Transcriptomic and Metabolomic Insights into the Enhanced Quality ofMetabolites · 2026
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

7 authors.

Wangdan XiongCollege of Life Sciences, Anqing Normal University, Anqing 246011, China.

Lingxin ZhangCollege of Agriculture, Qingdao Agricultural University, Qingdao 266109, China.

Yujian WangCollege of Agriculture, Qingdao Agricultural University, Qingdao 266109, China.

Guo WeiCollege of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225009, China.ORCID 0000-0001-5977-0681

Kaikai ZhuCo-Innovation Center for Sustainable Forestry in Southern China, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing 210037, China.

Kai ZhaoCollege of Life Sciences, Anqing Normal University, Anqing 246011, China.

Zhenying WuCollege of Life Sciences, Anqing Normal University, Anqing 246011, China.

Funding

Anhui Provincial Natural Science Foundation Program 2508085Y022Shandong Improved Variety Program 2019LZGC002-2

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Soil salinity increasingly jeopardizes maize productivity. Although previous studies have documented maize physiological responses under salt stress, the integrated regulatory networks linking signal perception, transcriptional reprogramming, and metabolic adjustment in shoots remain poorly understood. Here, we combined phenotypic, physiological, enzymatic, transcriptomic, and metabolomic analyses to systematically dissect maize seedling leaf responses to NaCl. Salt stress significantly inhibited photosynthesis, reduced plant biomass, and disturbed ion homeostasis, as evidenced by increased Na

Indexed as

multi-omics integrationregulatory networkssalt stresssecondary metabolismZea mays

Identifiers

PMID41375263

DOI10.3390/plants14233554

PMCPMC12694175

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.