Claim · model-written summary
Tropical maize lines yielded more and more diverse fungi than temperate lines.
- Material
- tropical maize linese0
- Outcome
- number and diversity of fungie0
- Direction
- greatere0
- Comparator
- temperate linese0
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Verbatim
e0“a greater number and diversity of fungi were cultured from tropical maize lines than from temperate lines”
Title
Composition of the Maize Endophytic Microbiome is Correlated with Maize Genotype
Saha, Surya; Churchill, Alice; Mideros, Santiago Figshare 2013. doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.698247.v1
Other claims from this paper (7)
- Observation Culturable bacteria were detected in approximately 65% of maize samples.
- Observation Fungi were detected in 28% of maize samples.
- Observation Both bacteria and fungi were detected in 22% of maize samples.
- Observation Endophytes were undetectable in 28% of maize samples.
- Observation Bacteria were isolated from every maize line.
- Association Some maize lines had significantly greater microbial community diversity than others.
- Observation Phenotypically similar bacteria and fungi occurred in multiple maize lines.