Claim · model-written summary
Microbial bio-fertilizers improved the availability of N, P and K in the soil.
- Taxon
- eggplant
Solanum melongenat0 - Treatment
- microbial bio-fertilizerse1
- Interactor
- Azotobacter chroococume1symbiont
- Second interactor
- Azotobacter vinelandiiAzotobacter vinelandiie1symbiont
- Outcome
- availability of macronutrientse0
- Direction
- improvede0
- Qualifier
- N, P, Ke0
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageComparatorSettingValue
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Verbatim
t0“greenhouse grown eggplant (Solanum Melongena L.)”
e0“improved the availability of macronutrients (N, P, K, Ca, and Mg) and micronutrients (Fe, Mn, Zn, and B)”
e1“The microbial bio-fertilizers included Azotobacter chroococum and Azotobacter vinelandii”
Title
Zeynep Demir Communications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis 2020. doi:10.1080/00103624.2020.1798983
Other claims from this paper (12)
- Intervention effect Bio-fertilizers accelerated mineralization of organic residues in the soil.
- Intervention effect Microbial bio-fertilizers improved the availability of Ca and Mg in the soil.
- Intervention effect Microbial bio-fertilizers improved the availability of micronutrients Fe, Mn and Zn in the soil.
- Intervention effect Microbial bio-fertilizers improved the availability of boron in the soil.
- Observation The highest total N value, 0.143%, was observed with bio-fertilizer at I100 irrigation.
- Observation The lowest total N value, 0.087%, was observed in the I40 treatment without bio-fertilizer.
- Intervention effect Bio-fertilizers improved soil aggregate stability, total porosity and moisture-retention capacity.
- Intervention effect Bio-fertilizers improved soil infiltration rate.
- Intervention effect Bio-fertilizers decreased soil bulk density.
- Intervention effect Bio-fertilizers increased water uptake by eggplant plants.
- Intervention effect Bio-fertilizers decreased drought susceptibility of eggplant plants.
- Recommendation Bio-fertilizers can reliably be used to improve soil physical and chemical characteristics under different irrigation levels.