Claim · model-written summary
Moderate and severe water deficit reduced maize shoot biomass at 60 and 40% WHC.
- Treatment
- Moderate and severe water deficite0
- Outcome
- plants' shoot biomasse0
- Direction
- reducinge0
- Qualifier
- 60 and 40% of WHCe0
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Verbatim
e0“Moderate and severe water deficit negatively affected soil microbial activity, as well as, maize growth, by reducing plants' shoot biomass and increasing root/shoot ratio at 60 and 40% of WHC.”
Title
S.I.A. Pereira; D. Abreu; H. Moreira; et al. Heliyon 2020. doi:10.1016/j.heliyon.2020.e05106
Other claims from this paper (8)
- Intervention effect Moderate and severe water deficit increased maize root to shoot ratio.
- Intervention effect Moderate and severe water deficit negatively affected soil microbial activity.
- Intervention effect Bioinoculants mitigated maize shoot biomass losses under water deficit.
- Intervention effect Co-inoculated PGPR increased maize aerial biomass by up to 89% under moderate water deficit.
- Intervention effect Bioinoculation increased maize nitrogen use efficiency under water deficit.
- Intervention effect Bioinoculation increased maize phosphorous use efficiency under water deficit.
- Intervention effect Inoculum size had marginal influence on maize biometric and nutrient parameters.
- Intervention effect The higher concentration of the PGPR mixture was most effective for maize shoot biomass under moderate water deficit.