Claim · model-written summary
Colonization rate and intensity correlated positively with sorghum plant height, root length, and biomass.
- Interactor
- HN16G1e1symbiont
- Outcome
- plant height, root length, and biomasse0
- Direction
- correlated positivelye0
- Qualifier
- Colonization parameters (rate and intensity)e0
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Verbatim
t0“from sorghum roots”
e0“Colonization parameters (rate and intensity) correlated positively with plant height, root length, and biomass.”
e1“Inoculation with HN16G1 (5.0 × 10 5 CFU/mL)”
Title
Yali Zhang; Zhenfeng Gao; Huilin Long; et al. Frontiers in Microbiology 2026. doi:10.3389/fmicb.2026.1829731
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- Observation The sorghum survey yielded 94 DSE isolates, 30.72% of fungal isolates, in 30 morphotypes.
- Observation Alternaria was the dominant DSE genus at 46.67% of isolates.
- Observation HN16G1 from Hongnuo 16 was identified as Alternaria destruens.
- Observation HN16G1 had superior sorghum root colonization capability.
- Observation HN16G1 formed stable symbiosis with all 10 tested commercial cultivars.
- Observation HN16G1 colonization rates exceeded 50.0%.
- Observation HN16G1 colonization intensity exceeded 16.0%.
- Observation Low NaCl concentrations promoted HN16G1 mycelial growth.
- Observation High salt stress enhanced HN16G1 sporulation.
- Observation High salt stress reduced HN16G1 hyphal septal distance.
- Observation HN16G1 produced indole-3-acetic acid at 181.56 μg/mL.
- Intervention effect HN16G1 inoculation significantly improved sorghum seedling emergence under combined drought and low nutrients.
- Intervention effect HN16G1 inoculation significantly improved sorghum early vegetative growth under combined drought and low nutrients.
- Observation Hongnuo 16 had one of the most pronounced growth responses to HN16G1.
- Observation Jinnuo 3 had one of the most pronounced growth responses to HN16G1.