Claim · model-written summary
Coating with P. libanensis plus multiple R. irregularis isolates increased cowpea shoot dry weight by 76% against uninoculated controls.
- Taxon
- cowpea
Vigna unguiculatat0 - Treatment
- Seed coating with P. libanensis + multiple isolates of R. irregularis (coatPMR)e0
- Interactor
- P. libanensisPseudomonas libanensise0symbiont
- Second interactor
- R. irregularis
Rhizophagus irregularise0symbiont - Outcome
- shoot dry weighte0
- Direction
- increasese0
- Value
- 76%e0
- Comparator
- non-inoculated control plantse0
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageSettingQualifier
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Verbatim
e0“Seed coating with P. libanensis + multiple isolates of R. irregularis (coatPMR) resulted in significant increases in shoot dry weight (76%), and in the number of pods and seeds per plant (52% and 56%, respectively) and grain yield (56%), when compared with non-inoculated control plants”
t0“cowpea productivity”
Title
Using microbial seed coating for improving cowpea productivity under a low‐input agricultural system
Inês Rocha; Pablo Souza‐Alonso; Graça Pereira; et al. Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture 2019. doi:10.1002/jsfa.10117
Other claims from this paper (7)
- Intervention effect The multiple-isolate coating increased cowpea pod number per plant by 52%.
- Intervention effect The multiple-isolate coating increased cowpea seed number per plant by 56%.
- Intervention effect The multiple-isolate coating increased cowpea grain yield by 56%.
- Intervention effect Coating with P. libanensis plus a single R. irregularis isolate did not influence cowpea grain yield.
- Intervention effect The multiple-isolate coating raised cowpea grain lipid content by 25% compared with controls.
- Observation Soil organic matter was higher under the multiple-isolate cowpea coating.
- Observation Soil pH was lower under the multiple-isolate cowpea coating.