Intervention effectmodel-written summary

Seed inoculation with Rhizobium recorded the highest growth, nodulation and yield attributes in chickpea.

A claim from Productivity, profitability and sustainability of rain-fed chickpea under inorganic and biofertilization in foothills of north-west Himalayas · 2014

Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultpositivemeasured

Claim · model-written summary

Seed inoculation with Rhizobium recorded the highest growth, nodulation and yield attributes in chickpea.

Taxon
chickpeaCicer arietinumt0
Treatment
Seed inoculation with Rhizobiume2
Interactor
RhizobiumRhizobiume2symbiont
Outcome
growth, nodulation, yield attributese2
Direction
higheste2

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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Cicer arietinum
Cicer arietinum · TaxonSanjay Acharya · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗
Rhizobium
Rhizobium · Interactor · picture of the genus (one of its species)Ninjatacoshell · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

Verbatim

t0

“rain-fed chickpea”

✓ located verbatim in the source · title, characters 50–67
e2

“Seed inoculation with Rhizobium recorded the highest growth, nodulation, yield attributes and yield of chickpea and was statistically at par with PSB and significantly better than no inoculation”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 792–986

Title

Productivity, profitability and sustainability of rain-fed chickpea under inorganic and biofertilization in foothills of north-west Himalayas

Sher Singh; Sher Singh; Satvinder Singh Bawa; et al. Archives of Agronomy and Soil Science 2014. doi:10.1080/03650340.2014.988147

Other claims from this paper (7)

Record rev-23344c05a672ced2f85b1998a138eb0984477e4c6dfa7d97aed7a264665d9700 · schema claims-v0.9 · position 2 in the model’s answer

Rhizobium · symbiosis · Cicer arietinum (chickpea)Positive and negative results

52 papers: 51 positive, 1 negative or no effect

50 papers in the same direction as this claim · 1 reporting no difference from an alternative

  1. positive
    Rhizobium inoculation significantly increased nodule number and nodule dry weight versus no treatment.

    Effect of irrigation and biofertilizer on water use, nodulation, growth and yield of chickpea (Cicer arietinumL.) · 2011 · compared with no treatment

    Same directionCited by this paper

  2. positive
    Phosphorus and Rhizobium + PSB seed treatment significantly increased number of nodules per plant in chickpea.

    Effect of biofertilizers and phosphorus on growth and yield of chickpea (Cicerarietinum L) · 2013

    Same directionCited by this paper

  3. no effect
    Rhizobium alone and dual inoculation did not differ significantly for nodule number and weight.

    Changes in root and nutrient uptake of chickpea affected by organic fertilizers and inoculation with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and Rhizobium · 2024 · compared with dual inoculation of mycorrhiza and Rhizobium

    No difference from an alternative

  4. positive
    Single, dual, and triple bacterial inoculations significantly increased shoot, root and nodule dry weight versus control in controlled and field trials.

    Influence of Nitrogen Fixing and Phosphorus Solubilizing Bacteria on the Nodulation, Plant Growth, and Yield of Chickpea · 2007 · compared with control treatment

    Same direction

  5. positive
    Rhizobacterial co-inoculation with Rhizobium significantly increased nodule weight, root and shoot biomass, and total plant nitrogen.

    Stimulation of nitrogen fixation and induction of flavonoid-like compounds by rhizobacteria · 1999

    Same direction

  6. positive
    In a chickpea pot experiment, combining Rhizobium inoculation with seed priming significantly increased nodulation.

    The improvement of crop yield in marginal environments using ‘on-farm’ seed priming: nodulation, nitrogen fixation, and disease resistance · 2005

    Same direction

  7. positive
    Rhizobium + PSB inoculation was the most effective microbial inoculant for nodule number in chickpea

    Effect ofRhizobiumand Phosphate Solubilizing Bacterial Inoculants on Symbiotic Traits, Nodule Leghemoglobin, and Yield of Chickpea Genotypes · 2013 · compared with microbial inoculants

    Same direction

  8. positive
    Inoculation increased nodule number by 20% over uninoculated plants.

    Effect of chickpea in association with Rhizobium to crop productivity and soil fertility · 2016 · compared with uninoculated plants

    Same direction

43 papers more in this group

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inoculation · symbiosis · Cicer arietinum (chickpea)Positive and negative results

114 papers: 110 positive, 4 negative or no effect

109 papers in the same direction as this claim · 3 in the opposite direction · 1 reporting no difference from an alternative

  1. positive
    Rhizobium inoculation significantly increased nodule number and nodule dry weight versus no treatment.

    Effect of irrigation and biofertilizer on water use, nodulation, growth and yield of chickpea (Cicer arietinumL.) · 2011 · compared with no treatment

    Same directionCited by this paper

  2. positive
    Micronutrients and inoculation increased nodule and plant dry weight.

    Response of chickpea to micronutrients and biofertilizers in vertisol · 2012

    Same directionCited by this paper

  3. no effect
    Prior bradyrhizobial inoculation did not increase nodule number.

    Development and activity of the symbiosis between Bradyrhizobium strains, Glomus species and Cicer arietinum: effect of timing of inoculation and photon irradiance · 1994

    Opposite direction

  4. negative
    Inoculation with Macrophomina phaseolina decreased the functional nodule count of chick pea.

    Seed treatment with bio-fungicides for management of dry root rot of Chick pea caused by Macrophomina phaseolina · 2015

    Opposite direction

  5. negative
    Chickpea growth and nodulation progressively decreased as the inoculum level of Meloidogyne incognita race 3 increased.

    Effect of different inoculum levels of Meloidogyne incognita race 3 on the growth of chickpea · 1992

    Opposite direction

  6. no effect
    Rhizobium alone and dual inoculation did not differ significantly for nodule number and weight.

    Changes in root and nutrient uptake of chickpea affected by organic fertilizers and inoculation with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and Rhizobium · 2024 · compared with dual inoculation of mycorrhiza and Rhizobium

    No difference from an alternative

  7. positive
    Single, dual, and triple bacterial inoculations significantly increased shoot, root and nodule dry weight versus control in controlled and field trials.

    Influence of Nitrogen Fixing and Phosphorus Solubilizing Bacteria on the Nodulation, Plant Growth, and Yield of Chickpea · 2007 · compared with control treatment

    Same direction

  8. positive
    Biochar and AMF increased nodule number and weight.

    Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and biochar improves drought tolerance in chickpea · 2018

    Same direction

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