Claim · model-written summary
A 4 g/L Bifurcaria extract treatment increased potato plant height by 21%.
- Taxon
- Solanum tuberosum L.
Solanum tuberosume1 - Treatment
- 4 g/L extracte0
- Interactor
- Dickeya dadantii
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Dickeya dadantiie2pathogen - Outcome
- plant heighte0
- Direction
- increasee0
- Value
- 21%e0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
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Verbatim
e0“the treatment with 4 g/L extract resulted in a significant reduction in disease symptoms (>60%) and enhanced plant growth parameters, including 21% increase in plant height and 33% increase in leaf number”
e1“Solanum tuberosum L.”
e2“soft rot caused by Dickeya dadantii”
Title
Fatima Lakhdar; Bouchra Benhniya; Jamal Bouhraoua; et al. International Journal of Plant Biology 2026. doi:10.3390/ijpb17040033
Other claims from this paper (6)
- Observation Bifurcaria bifurcata aqueous extract was rich in polar and hydrophilic functional groups.
- Observation Bifurcaria bifurcata extract was rich in phenolic metabolites, including four named phenolic acids.
- Intervention effect A 4 g/L Bifurcaria extract treatment reduced potato soft rot disease symptoms by more than 60%.
- Intervention effect A 4 g/L Bifurcaria extract treatment increased potato leaf number by 33%.
- Intervention effect Potato POX activity increased sixfold under the extract treatment, from 0.12 to 0.7 µmol/min/mg protein.
- Recommendation The authors propose Bifurcaria bifurcata extract as a potential alternative to chemical pesticides.