Claim · model-written summary
Fewer A. caulinodans were found on Sesbania rostrata flowers than leaves.
- Taxon
- Azorhizobium caulinodans
Azorhizobium caulinodanse0 - Organ / stage
- flowerse0
- Interactor
- Sesbania rostrataSesbania rostratae0host
- Outcome
- populatione0
- Direction
- fewere0
- Comparator
- leavese0
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundSecond interactorSecond interactor roleTreatmentSettingValueQualifier
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Verbatim
e0“A large population of Azorhizobium caulinodans was present on Sesbania rostrata; up to 5 x 10 cm were found on leaves and fewer were found on flowers.”
Title
Epiphytic Occurrence of Azorhizobium caulinodans and Other Rhizobia on Host and Nonhost Legumes
A. Adebayo; I. Watanabe; J. K. Ladha Applied and Environmental Microbiology 1989. doi:10.1128/aem.55.9.2407-2409.1989
Other claims from this paper (8)
- Observation Azorhizobium caulinodans had a large population on Sesbania rostrata leaves, reported as up to 5 x 10 cm.
- Observation A. caulinodans populations on nonhost Sesbania aculeata leaves were much smaller than on S. rostrata.
- Observation S. aculeata rhizobia populations on host leaves were reported as less than 30 cm.
- Observation S. aculeata rhizobia occurred sporadically on host flowers.
- Observation Aeschynomene afraspera rhizobia occurred on host and nonhost leaves and host flowers.
- Observation Aeschynomene aspera rhizobia occurred on host and nonhost leaves and host flowers.
- Observation Aeschynomene pratensis rhizobia were absent from host leaves and flowers.
- Observation Aeschynomene sensitiva rhizobia were absent from host leaves and flowers.