Claim · model-written summary
Aeration enhanced beneficial microbial populations.
- Taxon
- tomato
Solanum lycopersicumt0 - Treatment
- aeration practicee0
- Outcome
- beneficial microbial populationse0
- Direction
- enhancinge0
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Verbatim
e0“The aeration practice altered the soil microbial community structure by suppressing various harmful microbial taxa associated with root diseases while enhancing beneficial microbial populations”
t0“tomato plants”
Title
Zifan Wang; Na Gao; Yan Li; et al. Scientia Horticulturae 2025. doi:10.1016/j.scienta.2025.114235
Other claims from this paper (11)
- Intervention effect Aeration raised soil oxygen content by as much as 1.38%.
- Intervention effect Twenty minutes of aeration raised tomato net photosynthetic rate by 47.32±5.15%.
- Intervention effect Twenty minutes of aeration raised fruit yield by 9.76±1.48%.
- Intervention effect Soil aeration promoted tomato vegetative growth.
- Intervention effect Soil aeration led to earlier flowering.
- Intervention effect Fusarium inoculation induced severe tomato root rot.
- Intervention effect Aeration reduced Fusarium abundance in inoculated soil by as much as 91.84%.
- Intervention effect Aeration reduced the root rot disease index by as much as 85.36%.
- Intervention effect Aeration suppressed harmful soil microbial taxa.
- Intervention effect Aeration promoted healthy root system development.
- Recommendation The authors recommend aerated cultivation for managing root rot in facility crops.