Claim · model-written summary
Cucurbita maxima can tolerate or survive soil salinity by itself or in association with Rhizophagus irregularis.
- Taxon
- Cucurbita maxima
Cucurbita maximae1 - Interactor
- Rhizophagus irregularis
Rhizophagus irregularise1symbiont - Outcome
- tolerate or survive soil salinitye1
- Qualifier
- by itself or in association with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungie1
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Verbatim
t0“Mitigation of salt induced stress via arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (Rhizophagus irregularis) inoculation in Cucurbita maxima Duch”
e1“Using different mechanisms Cucurbita maxima by itself or in association with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (Rhizophagus irregularis) can tolerate or survive soil salinity”
Title
Okon Okon G; Okon Iniobong E; Mbong Emem O; et al. International Journal of Molecular Biology Open Access 2019. doi:10.15406/ijmboa.2019.04.00095
Other claims from this paper (9)
- Intervention effect Saline soil treatment significantly reduced photosynthetic pigment contents (chlorophyll a, b and carotenoids) in Cucurbita maxima.
- Intervention effect Saline soil treatment significantly reduced N, P and K mineral contents in Cucurbita maxima.
- Intervention effect Saline soil treatment significantly reduced Mg and Ca mineral contents in Cucurbita maxima.
- Intervention effect Saline soil treatment significantly reduced leaf relative water content (LRWC), shoot length and dry weight in Cucurbita maxima.
- Intervention effect Saline soil treatment significantly reduced arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi colonization of Cucurbita maxima roots, from 45.45 to 20.34%.
- Intervention effect Saline soil treatment significantly reduced mycorrhizal dependency of Cucurbita maxima, from 100.00% to 13.87%.
- Intervention effect The mycorrhizal symbiotic association improved growth and physiology of Cucurbita maxima.
- Mechanism Mycorrhizal association is asserted to let the inoculated Cucurbita maxima survive severe salt stress through altered K+/Na+ ratio, root network and nutrient uptake.
- Observation Saline and garden soils differed significantly in pH, total nitrogen, available phosphorus, exchangeable cations, organic carbon and EC.